Tag Archive for 'ebook'
Amazon have either underestimated the Oprah-effect or merely messed up on their stock management: shipping on the Kindle ebook reader is currently listed as in 11 to 13 weeks time, overshooting Christmas and pegging deliveries as sometime in Q1 2009. That makes the second year in a row that the retailer could not meet demand.
Amazon are “tentatively” preparing to launch their Kindle 2 ebook reader in early Q1 2009, according to the latest rumors. Leaked shots of the second-generation device emerged back in October, with a launch tipped to take place before the holiday season, but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apparently postponed the release to allow for last-minute software [...]
If you’ve heeded Oprah’s call and got yourself an Amazon Kindle, or you’ve had one for quite some time, then you’ll be pleased to know about the Periscope Lighted Folio. This accessory makes it so you can keep your Kindle lit up, even when trying to get through a few chapters in the dark.
Chinese firm Hanvon have announced a 5-inch ebook reader, the N510, using the E Ink Vizplex display and Hanvon’s own pen-input technology. The N510 is 11mm thick, in part because it has no backlighting, and has a 167ppi, SVGA 800 x 600 display. It’s a well-travelled design, too; astronauts used the N510 in space during the [...]
Oprah Winfrey has named the Amazon Kindle her “favorite new gadget”, and with it likely catapulted the wireless-enabled ebook reader into the top-seller list. Rumors had been circulating for the past week or so that Winfrey would be promoting an electronic device, and with Amazon running preview videos on their homepage it seemed likely that [...]
The iRex Digital Reader 1000-series may not have been the revolution in ebooks that the company’s teaser campaign initially suggested, but that doesn’t mean the devices themselves aren’t impressive. MobileRead have just received the mid-range DR1000S, which has touchscreen input for document annotation but no WiFi or Bluetooth capabilities, and have put up some unboxing [...]
More demo video of the Plastic Logic ebook reader, this time courtesy of a BBC video interview at the company’s Dresden factory. According to the engineers there, the device - which uses special “plastic microchips” that went into production last month - is still on course for a 2009 release.
Images purporting to be of the Amazon Kindle 2, the online retailer’s follow-up to the wirelessly-enabled ebook reader, have turned up at the BGR. Suggesting a physically larger device, with redesigned circular keys, newly shrunken page-turn buttons intended to minimize accidental flips, and a joystick that replaces the scroll-wheel, the Kindle 2 still has EV-DO [...]
While portable eBook readers haven’t exactly taken the world by storm, there is a demand for them and a growing market. Sony just announced their latest e-ink reader, the Reader PRS-700 this evening and it’s quite pricey.
A teaser campaign just isn’t sacred any more. iRex had no sooner started light ripples of rumor with their “Seeing is Believing” tease, when Forbes steps in to scoop the new device. According to Andy Greenberg, it will be the iRex Reader 1000 complete with a 10.2-inch e-ink display, complete with optional stylus for handwritten [...]
