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Review: The cheap, chunky, sometimes funky Gobii eReader
A load of gadgets recently came into the 'burn offices. You'd think we’d be a little jaded by now, but we still tend to act a little like small children on Christmas morning. The boxes were unpacked with glee, I was handed the action camera...I had requested it after all. A moment later, the collective heads of the editorial team popped up in unison. "You don’t really do any kind of action activities do you?", said one member of the ... -
It’s Nook versus Kindle with the newly-released Simple Touch
The Barnes & Noble Nook is seemingly set to enter into an almighty throw down with the Amazon Kindle. It has now been discovered that Barnes & Noble will be announcing a new Nook, called the "Simple Touch", a gadget which is seemingly in line with Kindle's current line-up of cut-price eReaders.
The Nook Simple Touch, priced at US$99 has "the world's best reading screen and longest battery life" according to a leaked slide from Barnes & Noble, a US-based book ... -
Textbooks now for rent on Kindle
Amazon.com has begun letting students rent textbooks on Kindle electronic readers.
Kindle Textbook Rentals lets students pay based on how long they want to use textbooks, with periods ranging from 30 days to 360 days.
Renting a digital version of textbooks on a Kindle for a month can save students as much as 80 percent of the price of buying the works, according to Amazon Kindle vice president Dave Limp.
"Students tell us that they enjoy the low prices we offer on new ... -
Harry Potter’s world comes to e-books
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has taken her lucrative boy wizard into the digital age, revealing that his adventures will now be sold as e-books for the first time through a website that contains new material and assorted Pottery merchandise. True fans can get into it from July 31, the rest of us must wait until October.
After years of restricting the phenomenally successful series to print form, Rowling said that from October she would sell them direct to consumers, bypassing ... -
App of the week: Taptu
Sticking with my news reader obsession, this week I take a look at Taptu, a free news, Google Reader and social media aggregation app that has caught my attention over the past few days.
As I mentioned last week when reviewing the Reeder app, I am a news junkie and actually have to stop myself from refreshing my Google Reader tab every five minutes. I have my favourite sites that I read every day, which I think add value to my ... -
Amazon selling more Kindle books than print books
Online retail giant Amazon said Thursday that sales of digital books for the Kindle electronic reader have surpassed sales of print books.
"Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books," Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said in a statement.
"We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly," Bezos said. "We've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years."
The Seattle, Washington-based ...
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