Big, bigger, but not yet biggest: According to the Association of American Publishers's StatShot study released Thursday, ebooks made up nearly a quarter (22.55%, to be precise) of U.S. trade publishers' book sales last year. That's up from 17% in 2011 and just 3% in 2009...
So you just dropped some cash on a new e-reader.
Now you're expected to pay more money to fill it up with content?
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In a Santa Monica Airport hangar on Thursday, Amazon announced its latest round of Kindles and related services. Overall, they look pretty impressive.
After a big corporate self-hug as CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage, Amazon focused on three key items: new Kindle Readers, new Kindle Fires, and enhancements to the Amazon ecosystem tying them all together. (For more analysis on the new products and services, see What The New Kindle Means To Amazon.)
Along with one or more new Kindle Fires, we're expecting refreshed E Ink models in Amazon's e-reader line at the company's Los Angeles event next week as well. One of those appears to be a refreshed Kindle Touch — the button below the display is gone, and the bezel has changed from light to very dark gray. The overall shape of the product and the location of the USB port and power switch appear to be essentially unchanged. From the images we have, it looks like Amazon will be touting the unit with "higher contrast, high resolution, integrated lighting, and eight weeks of battery life," even when using the light. The retail name for this unit is unclear — Amazon could simply call it the Kindle Touch again, but "Paperwhite" might factor in as well.
AllThingsD is reporting that the next Kindle Fire will be thinner and lighter than the current Kindle Fire with a better display, boosting the pixels to a 1280 x 800 resolution. Supposedly, Amazon is targeting the second half of the year for the release—late in the third quarter, to be a little more specific.
AllThingsD also expects a camera to be added in the next Kindle Fire, which should help make more people look like hilarious fools for taking pictures with their tablets. The thing about a new 1280x800 screen though is that it changes the aspect ratio of the Kindle Fire from 1.71 to an aspect ratio of 1.60. The 1280x800 display is actually used in the Nexus 7 tablet so we could be looking at similar screens here.
Amazon is prepping a 7-inch $199 tablet for a third quarter release, reports Max Wang for Digitimes. Reportedly, this tablet will have better specs than the Fire with a higher quality screen and more than likely a more competent computing platform. The original Fire will then get cut to $150. Then, later in the year or maybe in early 2013, Amazon will release a 10.1-inch model. This comes by way of an “upstream supply chain” source. Digitimes is as sketchy as trade publications get, but logic dictates that there is some truth here.
Reuters is reporting that the next Kindle will be front-lit and will be coming out in July. It's a smart move because it'll let users read their Kindles in the dark and an obvious one for Amazon to make as Barnes and Noble already has a front-lit Nook.
The Kindle will still be using an E-ink screen so your eyes won't strain and pop from staring at backlit LCD displays all day but it's worth nothing that the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light uses Barnes and Noble's own technology to work with the front lighting. Unlike previous ereaders where all the E-ink screens are the same, we're going to be seeing some differences in these next generation front-lit ereaders.
Amazon is offering refurbished Kindle Fires for $140 today.
Gizmodo discovered the deal.
The Kindle Fire is one of the leading Android tablets currently available, and after knocking $30 off its regular retail price, Amazon has made it one of the best you can get for the money.
If you have any interest in the Kindle Fire, this is the most affordable way to pick one up.
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It's hard not to make a series of reductive comparisons between the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire. After all, it's the conflict between Barnes & Noble and Amazon that frames these two 7-inch tablet / e-reader hybrids. This one is $50 more expensive, but is technically more impressive: you get more expandability, it's faster and the screen is better for images and video. Statistically, at least three out of every ten e-book readers purchased were Nooks, so plenty of you out there use 'em. What we want to know, is what are they like to use on a daily basis? What little gripes did we not pick up during our week-long review and, if William Lynch was reading what you had to say, what would you change?
1935: The world's first parking meters appear. T.E. Lawrence dies in a motorcycle accident. The nation of Libya is formed. In other news, "Everyday Science and Mechanics" magazine published their vision of the future of reading. Hello, iPad grandpa.
Are you looking for new ways to deliver in-depth content on a topic specific to your website? If so, ebooks are a great way to take your audience deeper into some aspect of your subject matter. Through the advancement of technology it’s easier than ever before in history for you to become an author by writing an ebook. With that said, there are things you should do to ensure your ebook is read by as many people as possible. In this article we are going to uncover the benefits of writing an ebook, provide tips for writing a successful ebook, and discuss how you can streamline the Ebook writing process.
Barnes & Noble will release a new, and probably cheaper, version of its Nook Tablet on Feb. 22 to help it compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire, according to a leak obtained by The Verge.
The iPad may have launched in 2010, but 2011 was a big year for tablets. Almost every major smartphone and PC manufacturer has joined the tablet party Apple started, beginning with the Motorola Xoom way back in February.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- A new electronic display is poised to challenge power-hungry LCDs after U.S. mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. teamed up with a South Korean bookseller to introduce a new e-reader.
The question that ultimately comes up after accepting that these are all e-readers that won’t perform or look exactly like an iPad (or miscellaneous tablet of your choosing) is: So… which one is better? I’m going to save you time, right now! There is no clear winner. Each can be useful to a person — it depends on whether you’re looking to save money or have a clean and easy book reading experience or want to read your books and play games/videos/browse the internet too.
The hotly anticipated Steve Jobs biography is out electronically via Amazon Kindle.
Our copy just loaded on our iPhone. We're going to be digging into it now, and we'll let you know what we find.
If you've pre-ordered, you might want to fire up your Kindle and look for it.
With the release of a cheap new tablet device, Kobo Inc. is bringing its Vox to the populi.
The Toronto-based maker of the electronic book readers is entering the increasingly-crowded market for cheap tablet computers, releasing a touch-screen, colour device that runs on Google Inc.’s Android operating system. The device allows for e-reading of books, magazines and newspapers, and also allows users to watch movies, listen to music and play video games such as Angry Birds, like they do on other tablets.
Busy business travelers have found e-readers to be extremely valuable. But losing an expensive or otherwise coveted item is always painful. Losing an item with sensitive data on it can be even worse.
If you've recently lost your Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook or Sony Reader, here's what you can do to protect your data, prevent further purchases and try to recover your device.
