Let’s walk through a Kindle vs iPad review that looks at which is the better eReader – the iPad or the Kindle. Update: $199 Kindle Fire Kindle Tablet is now out. Will put up a Kindle Fire vs iPad review soon. This specifically compares the $259 Kindle 2 against the Apple iPad ($499 WiFi, $629 3G). There’ll be a [...]
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Apple Insider writes that Apple and Book Publishers are in negotiations to provide books for the Apple iSlate with new hardcovers prived at $12.99 to $14.99. That sounds like a rather unreasonable rumor to me. Will Publishers use Apple iSlate to attack $9.99? This section from the Apple Insider article is key – Apple would rather charge a [...]
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All the talk of the Apple iSlate reinventing eReaders, revitalizing eBooks and killing all existing eReaders is confusing. Firstly – What is an eReader? Secondly – What makes for a great eReader? What is an eReader? An eReader is a device that is optimized for and focused on reading books. The success of the Kindle has already [...]
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Amazon is going to publish 4 original manuscripts via Amazon Encore in Spring 2010 – marking its next step in making Encore a pillar of Book Publishing. The four books were entries to Amazon’s 2009 Breakthrough Novel Award and it’s the first time the Amazon Encore program is adding books that haven’t been published before. The Bookseller chimes in [...]
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JesusTablet worship has hit a new high with Newsweek’s article claiming that the Apple iPad/iSlate will upend every single industry - After early speculation that the gadget would be a “Kindle killer,” a gaming device, or just a really big iPhone, it appears possible that the Apple slate will be … all of the above, a game-changer for [...]
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