Amazon is reportedly trying to start a digital e-book service that users will subscribe to for an undisclosed amount every year according to The Wall Street Journal. The service is said to similar to Netflix. All of this appears to just be in the planning stages. Amazon is believed to be launching its first tablet sometime this year and access to thousands of books for a flat rate would certainly be an incentive to get people to use Amazon’s Kindle service.

According to a recent study conducted by Dr. Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group (no relation to the Nielsen fametrics company), it will take longer to read a book on the Kindle or an iPad when compared to an actual book. Jakob compared the reading times of twenty-four users on the Kindle 2, an more »

Despite last hearing, and seeing images of the DR-950 e-reader from Asus we have seen the official unveiling of the DR-900. Asus made the DR-900 official during CeBIT and as far as features its not all that surprising. The DR-900 comes sporting a 9-inch (1024 x 768) display with Wi-Fi, 4GB of storage, a 3.5mm more »

You may soon find e-readers priced below $150 in stores later this year, or so Freescale says. Amazon and Sony both use Freescale’s chips in their e-readers. The current technology requires several chips to control the e-ink display, which bumps up the cost and reduces performance but that will soon change when Freescale begins to more »

Despite finding out that Best Buy was going to begin shipping the iREX DR 800SG ereader back in September of last year and expecting it to begin shipping as of October — it is just now available. I guess this falls into the better late than never category. But those waiting for the iREX DR more »

Plenty of people were expecting Asus to show off some kind of ebook reader during CES, but unfortunately those people went away disappointed — but as of now there may still be a little hope. The details, which are coming courtesy of Times Online InGear are suggesting that the Asus ebook reader will be coming more »

It looks like Foxit is trying to make some headway in the ebook market, or more specifically it looks like they are at least trying to keep up with the current giants of Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble by having an ebook store carrying their name. Yes, similar to those three big players, Foxit more »

The Foxit eSlick reader was originally announced back in mid-December of last year, and since then it seems to have blended into the ever growing collection of available ebook readers. That said, the eSlick was just recently given a firmware update, and a nice one at that. And that update is offering at least one more »

Many big companies have already entered into the e-Reader department, most notably Amazon and Sony. Apparently Barnes & Noble have been working on e-Reader designs for quite some time now, and images and product information are finally beginning to surface. Barnes & Noble has already announced a product event slated for next Tuesday, October 20. more »

We have seen details before about the upcoming Barnes & Noble ebook reader, most recently was when it made the FCC appearance and although that was a nice step to see, we have something a little more exciting today. The latest details are coming from Daniel Joresson who is a Barnes & Noble representative. As more »