Major companies in the e-reader sphere are jockeying for position in the cutthroat world of retail sales. It looks like Target has had enough of these companies lowering their prices and has slashed their entire inventory. This has resulted in many current generation e-readers to have their prices severely lowered as Target seeks to liquidate the existing stock. This creates a … [Read more...] about How Customers Benefit from the e-Reader Wars at Target
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Digital Textbook Isn’t Taking Off, So Let’s Force Students to e-Read?
Tom Malek, Vice President of Learning Solutions for textbook publisher McGraw-Hill’s higher education division, wrote a thought-provoking guest post for Forbes.com, which columnist Janet Novak shared with the full-disclosure statement that she is, herself, the mother of two college students. Malek’s post is an explanation of why he believes college students should be required … [Read more...] about Digital Textbook Isn’t Taking Off, So Let’s Force Students to e-Read?
Plastic Logic’s Color Flexible eReader Screen Available for Demo
Engadget posted a video today of Plastic Logic’s prototype flexible color ereader. The screen, which boasts over 1 million transistors and has over 4,000 hues, can maintain its flexibility and its image integrity at the same time. This development was possible in part due to the success of Plastic Logic’s basic ereader, the Plastic Logic 100, that made its way into Russian … [Read more...] about Plastic Logic’s Color Flexible eReader Screen Available for Demo
Surprising Winner in Wired e-Reader Review
Wired magazine published a two-page review of e-readers and unfortunately it comes a little too late for Christmas shoppers to do anything other than wish they had bought the other guy’s device. Of the four major e-readers for the U.S. market that the tech team reviewed, the Kobo Touch, Nook Simple Touch , Sony Reader PRS-T1, and the Amazon Kindle, even Wired staffers were … [Read more...] about Surprising Winner in Wired e-Reader Review
Free eBook of the Week: Kait Nolan
Once again this week, GoodEReader.com is highlighting an additional international ebook through the ebook distribution platform XinXii. This week’s second title is the YA paranormal romance Red by Kait Nolan. In the author’s words, Red involves a young girl fighting for control over her emergence into a wolf shifter who must avoid execution by a man bent on exterminating her … [Read more...] about Free eBook of the Week: Kait Nolan
Publishers Disappointed as Canadian Bookseller Indigo Adapts to Changing Market
The largest physical retail bookseller in Canada, Indigo Books & Music, has made some massive changes to its store locations and its current business models, changes that have more than a few publishers anxious to see how it will impact their business. At face value, the changes that Indigo is incorporating in its brick-and-mortar locations seem like nothing more than … [Read more...] about Publishers Disappointed as Canadian Bookseller Indigo Adapts to Changing Market
New Amazon Indie Publishing Opportunity Launched Today
With the launch of the Amazon.fr Kindle store to offer Amazon ebooks to French customers, the Kindle Direct Publishing platform also opened in France. While not all international Amazon sites maintain an electronic publishing capability, more and more indie author opportunities are opening up worldwide, especially throughout Europe. This location marks the fourth platform … [Read more...] about New Amazon Indie Publishing Opportunity Launched Today
Aptara Releases Findings of Its Third Annual Digital Publishing Survey
As digital publishing gains a wider acceptance, companies like Aptara go into greater detail in gathering data on the influential reach of electronic books. Aptara, which bills itself as a “digital publishing solutions pioneer,” released its survey yesterday on the true scope of e-reading. According to the data’s highlights, it comes as no surprise that Amazon is still … [Read more...] about Aptara Releases Findings of Its Third Annual Digital Publishing Survey
Refurbished Kindle 3 Prices at Its Lowest Ever
A tried and tested method of enhancing sales or clearing stock is to slash prices and Amazon has done just that with its Kindle 3 e-reader, except it's the refurbished model. Only $99 is all takes to bring home a refurbished 3rd gen Kindle Wi-Fi, with the 3G variant of the same now priced at $139. This against the $139 and $189 price tags that the Wi-Fi only and 3G + Wi-Fi … [Read more...] about Refurbished Kindle 3 Prices at Its Lowest Ever
IDC: tablet sales drop 28 percent in Q1 2011 but predicts 53.5 million sales by end of year
So you thought tablet PCs are what the future of computing will be all about. Well may be not as analyst firm IDC has a different story to tell. So while tablet sales reached a commendable 18 million units in 2010, the growth trajectory has slipped by about 28 percent so that only about 7.2 million tablets found buyers between the January to March 2011 period. This is quite a … [Read more...] about IDC: tablet sales drop 28 percent in Q1 2011 but predicts 53.5 million sales by end of year