Brits, Aussies, Canadians: prepare to gorge on cheap (or even free) e-books. Though it's taken a while, Google's E-book Store has finally made it to the UK, Australia, and Canada, after a period of US exclusivity.
That means ...
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There's nothing wrong with a little bit of Harlequin reading for a guilty pleasure but it seems that when it comes to the Kindle, and the Nook as well, there has been an influx of what is ...
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I will admit at the outset that I am a devoted e-book reader- I have a Kindle, but mostly use the Kindle app on my iPhone and have shunned paper and ink books since my very first ...
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I have been a comic book lover for years, I even owned my own comic store for awhile; talk about a kid let loose in a candy store, and when I first heard of Graphicly (previously Graphic.ly ...
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With the E-Book market heating up and Amazon drastically dropping the cost of their Kindle e-Readers (the cheapest model is now $114) it was only a matter of time before e-Books began outselling hardcover and paperback books ...
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Just a few months after they got their own New York Times Bestseller list, electronic books hit another acceptance milestone- they've outpaced paperbacks as the single bestselling format in the US.
The sales stats turned in favor of ...
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Well, this kind of feels like a bit of a pivotal moment for e-books- the most nationally referenced best-seller list is getting an e-book list, too.
The New York Times, whose best-seller list is often used as a reference point ...
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It might only be the 158,221st best-selling Kindle e-book on Amazon but the fact that it is a book titled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure has created a growing firestorm on blogs and Twitter.
The reason ...
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According to Amazon, the newer, stripped down Kindle selling for $139 is outperforming previous units sales-wise, but the giant online retailer stopped short of offering numbers to illustrate exactly how well the new device is selling.
This iteration ...
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Word out today is that Barnes & Noble will be starting to sell a WiFi enabled version of their Nook e-reader. The price on their site says that the WiFi version will be available for$149.00 and as ...
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If you've got a Kindle or Kindle DX, your device is going to get a bit more social come late May.
At the top of the interest list for new Kindle features in Kindle Version 2.5 include connectivity ...
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We totally understand that children love their pop-up books, but is it really necessary for our e-Books to go the way of Hollywood movies? According to Gizmodo that's the plan and it could be arriving sooner rather ...
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The LP Generation
I grew up in the vinyl generation. No I don't mean anything kinky, so get your minds out of the gutter. For me; and the rest of my generation, the vinyl LP was the audio equivalent ...
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Much ado is being made about the best-selling books on Amazon being skewed by the prevalence of free books.
By my count on the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon, 59 books are either free or cost a cent. ...
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A leaked WSJ ad, scheduled for Oct. 25th, has gadget bloggers buzzing about Barnes & Noble's new e-reader, the Nook.
Running on Android, the Nook is said to be priced at Kindle's $259 pricepoint. Many people have likened ...
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E-Readers are slowly becoming a regular part of out collection of tech gadgets with Amazon’s Kindle the current leader of the pack. That could change however as ASUS has plans to push out the ...
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We’ve seen the same thing repeated over an over with the music industry, television industry, news industry, and many more just like them. Crying doom and gloom about how their individual wealth creators are ...
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Right now when people talk about e-books most everyone thinks of Amazon and its Kindle e-book reader. It is a market than a growing number of companies are wanting to get a foothold in ...
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Today, Google announced plans to launch an e-book service by the end of the year, in direct competition with Amazon's Kindle.
Speculation over the service is hinging on two key differences. While Kindle titles hover around $9.99 for ...
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Personally I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the Kindle as it is just another of the many US centric products on the market but I ran across a rather interesting stat concerning this ...
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Good news, smartphone users: Google is now making thousands of e-books available for mobile download, for free.
The newly launched Google Book Search for mobile is available for all iPhone and Android-based device users. All you have to ...
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