The Kindle might be getting a brand new eReader rival. It seems that Google has bought out a company called eBook Technologies Incorporated. The acquisition is notable for a few reasons – ETI has two LCD based eReaders and 1 eInk based eReader – the latter looked surprisingly like the BeBook. This might mean that Google is looking at [...]
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The Kindle is rumored to have sold 8 million units in 2010. You’d think that would make every company on Earth want to manufacture eReaders. Strangely, if CES 2011 is any indicator, most companies seem to have given up on eReaders. Decline of interest in making eReaders – CES 2010 vs CES 2011 Here’s a [...]
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The Kindle, the Nook, and all of us await what 2011 might bring. 2010 was a very interesting year. We had a lot of interesting eReader related events - CES 2010 was full of eReaders, we had the advent of $150 eReaders, the iPad arrived, Kindle DX 2 arrived, we got Nook WiFi, we had Kindle WiFi [...]
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The Kindle and Nook Color have little to fear so far. Mirasol’s Color eReader is mighty impressive – and not scheduled to release until Q3, 2011. Pixel Qi is pretty impressive too – except the lowest priced version of the Pixel Qi screen Adam tablet is $499. Which means that until Q3, 2011, iPad 2 is [...]
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The Kindle doesn’t have a touchscreen, the Nook has a 3.5″ navigation touchscreen at the bottom, and Sony Reader has touch implemented via Infra-red sensors. We also have Nook Color, a reading tablet, and iPad, a tablet, using full LCD touch screens. It’s 5 different ways of using touch with reading devices. There are also different [...]
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