e-book

More than doubled e-book sales in early 2011

Published on: 23rd March, 2011

According to the Association of American Publishers, e-book sales have doubled on a year-to-year base. A recently published study reveals that e-book sales have grown with 115 percent in January and produced $69.9 million revenue compared to the same period of last year. Meanwhile, hardcover books fell 11.3 percent to $49.1 million and paperbacks lost [...]

ASUS to reveal a highly-competitive OLED e-book reader

Published on: 21st January, 2010

The Taiwanese ASUS enters, although a bit late, the highly-competitive market of e-book readers with its DR-570 device. The 6-inch e-book reader was absent at the recent CES show, but is expected to be a technologically advanced device, with a bright OLED colour display and an impressive 122-hour battery life. The DR-570 is believed to [...]

Sprint to receive 11.5-inch Skiff reader in its 3G network

Published on: 12th January, 2010

Hearst has provided new details of its self-produced e-book reader, named Skiff Reader. This is one of the largest e-book devices with an 11.5-inch screen and providing a 1,200×1,600 touchscreen, which could be suited to newspapers and magazines. It also uses a rather new e-paper, which consists in an LG-made flexible steel foil, resistant to [...]

Sony’s Daily Edition e-book reader is already shipping

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

Sony has recently announced the shipment of its new flagship Reader Daily Edition. It benefits from a seven-inch touchscreen, especially designed for magazines and newspapers. Moreover, a 3G connection provided by AT&T’s wireless network is used for content download from Sony’s Reader Store. Reader Daily Edition will offer users unlimited access to the Wall Street [...]

Hackers say Nook is running Android 1.5

Published on: 20th December, 2009

The Nook e-book from Barnes & Noble has been spied and important details have been revealed. It is already known now by NookDevs that the device is based on a stock version of Android 1.5 and also that it is customized to mask the standard interface and to optimize it for the unique design with [...]

AT&T 3G extends e-book reader offering with COOL-ER

Published on: 11th December, 2009

Interead announced its intention to launch the next generation of COOL-ER readers with 3G provided by AT&T in the United States next year. Full features of the product were not unveiled but it is already known that these readers will come with Wi-Fi. What is unclear is whether or not Wi-Fi and 3G will both [...]

Two new E-book Readers on the United States Market

Published on: 13th November, 2009

The US e-book market will be richer in about two weeks. Dulin’s Books announced the arrival of the PocketBook 301 and the PocketBook 360. They are rebadged because Dulin’s Books is not the manufacturer but the reseller of these devices. Dulin’s Books will offer a larger series of e-readers and media tablets soon enough. A [...]

MediaBook – Surprise E-book Hybrid from Creative Planned to Be Released

Published on: 4th November, 2009

Creative surprised everybody by announcing an e-book reader, but did not provide any details about when it will be available and at what price it will be sold. Whether shipment to North America will be available or not is another unclear topic for the moment. The temporary name of the new device is MediaBook, but [...]

Tegra-based E-book Reader Almost Ready?

Published on: 29th October, 2009

A new e-book reader using NVIDIA’s Tegra processor will be developed and probably unveiled in the first half of 2010. The producer is MSI, but further details will be given only closer to the actual release. MSI’s chairman Joseph Hsu confirmed that the company has some remaining technical issues that made the company postpone the [...]

Wizpac Will Launch Txtr E-book This Winter

Published on: 21st October, 2009

A recent post in the MobileRead forum said that the German company Wizpac has released an e-book reader named the txtr in Frankfurt, at the Book Fair. Content from the dedicated txtr store, texts that can be shared and e-books available for purchase will be accessible through this device meant to be available in Germany [...]

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