Buy.com has gotten in on the Cyber Monday sales with this nicely discounted Kobo eReader Touch. The reader, which began shipping this past summer has been discounted from $99.99 down to $69.99. That being said, like other Cyber Monday sale prices — this one is only available for today November 28th. Otherwise, the $69.99 price more »

Perhaps taking a lesson from Amazon, it looks like those shopping for a Kobo Touch reader will now have another option when it comes time to make a purchase — a less expensive (and ad-supported) model. Yup, just like the Kindle with Special Offers, Kobo now has the Kobo Touch with Offers. In terms of more »

The Kobo eReader Touch was originally announced a few weeks back and as of now, it looks like Kobo is ready to begin shipping them out. The reader will be shipping for those in the US and Canada and comes priced at $129.99 and $139.99 respectively. In terms of making a purchase, it looks like more »

Kobo, the eBook store that isn’t Amazon or Banes & Noble, announced it’s newest eReader to compete with the two bigger names today. The new eReader would be the Kobo eReader Touch, a e-ink reader with “Infrared Touch Technology.” The Kobo eReader Touch looks similar to the other Kobo eReaders, though it lacks the ugly more »

It seems unlikely that at some point the Kindle will offer a color screen to keep up with the myriad of color screens featured on stealthy competitors like iPad, JooJoo, Slate and others. When Amazon decides to pull the trigger, they’ll likely go with one of the new screens shown here. These screens were shown more »

The ebook reader market certainly looks to be heating up quite a bit as of late. There’s the new international version of the Kindle 2, Plastic Logic teasing us with a new reader, Sony’s new readers and tomorrow’s Barnes & Noble announcement among others. Today, we can add another name to that list: Spring Design. more »

Taiwanese firm SiPix Imaging has announced it will ship a small volume of color e-paper in the second half of next year. This puts it far ahead of its rivals. These displays will be used in e-readers to display books, magazines, and newspapers. “Making colored electronic paper displays is our top priority,” Tseng said. “We more »

With all the excitement last week regarding the announcement of the new Kindle DX, a larger version designed for bigger text like newspapers, it is easy to start to justify the almost $500 expense. But then a sobering weekend brings up the thought, “why drop that kind of cash on a locked system?” What can I build on my own and have a better experience?

Thankfully, the world isn’t convinced Amazon’s Kindle will reign supreme and reinvent newspapers. Leading this charge, newspapers themselves. Most of the top papers have recently begun experimenting with other delivery options. Here are two that are worth checking out.

A new report has revealed that the build cost for Kindle 2, Amazon’s popular e-reader is $185.49. The E Ink screen’s cost makes up most of that at $60. The other major expense is the built in wireless card, which costs almost $40. Before people start screaming that Amazon is greedy for pricing the device more »

This certainly is not the first we are hearing about the Kindle 2, however it looks like anyone who was holding out is going to have to wait a little longer. Initially, the Kindle 2 was expected to hit the market this past October, which would have given it a good launch to pick up some holiday sales. According to the reports, the delay was caused by Jeff Bezos in order to make some last minute changes to the software.