Kobo has come up with a way to encourage potential customers that are in the market for an e-reader to choose the Kobo Touch over anything that Amazon or Barnes & Noble are offering. Yesterday, Kobo announced the Kobo 2012 Book Club. The club is open to anyone who registers a Kobo Touch or Kobo Touch with Offers through March 31, 2012, and signs up for Kobo email updates. In return, they’ll be given one free book every month in 2012. Now where have we seen this before?

Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire are going to be available for pre-order starting tomorrow at Radio Shack. The Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch are bound to be top-sellers, so this is an opportunity to claim one for yourself before the holiday crowds snatch them all away. The pre-order window will remain open until November 10.

Amazon now provides another option for getting rid of your old Kindle or another e-reader other than selling them yourself. Amazon’s trade-in program has been expanded to accept all kinds of Kindles and other e-readers such as Sony Readers the Kobo e-reader. Amazon will give you a gift card for what your device is worth so that you can possibly upgrade to one of the newer Kindles.

Not to be outdone by the upcoming Kindle Fire, Kobo has struck first by announcing its tablet called the Kobo Vox. Kobo named the Vox after the Latin phrase “Vox Populi” which means the voice of the people. We suppose that’s a nice touch. The Kobo Vox will cost $199 and will begin shipping on October 28. Pre-orders in the United States are being taken now from Fry’s, Best Buy and Kobo’s website.

UK Bookseller Waterstone’s wants to make another attempt at getting a piece of the e-reader pie. They tried a few year ago with the Sony Reader and had dismal results. This time the company’s CEO says their e-reader is ready to take on Amazon’s Kindle. There are no details available yet but it is expected more »

Woot is running a sale today on the Entourage Pocket Edge for $79.99. Considering the device’s multifunctionality, this bad boy will be quite difficult to pass up. The Edge is an all-in-one device that combines the functions of e-readers, tablets, notepads and audio/video recorders conveniently in one place. Perhaps the next model can add some more »

Google has just announced the availability of the iriver Story HD e-reader this coming Sunday, July 17. Wait, what? Google is now into e-reader? Since when? Yes, folks just now. Google is sort of strengthening its Google eBooks platform by way of partnering with e-book manufacturers. And so the first one to take on Google’s more »

Ebooks and tablets are poised to deliver a knockout blow to paper books. That’s according to Barnes and Noble vice president of direct marketing Marc Parrish, who spoke at the GigaOm Big Data conference recently. Parrish explained that ebooks will soon become the primary way consumers read and purchase books. Parrish admitted to mistakingly giving a two-year window as to when the book business will shift from physical to digital. Either way, the evidence he provided backed up his claims.

A new study by Forrester Research revealed that more consumers are planning to buy tablet computers than any other type of computer, including e-readers. The study surveyed 4000 consumers and found that 14% plan to buy a tablet computer, 13% a laptop, 11% an e-reader, and 8% netbooks or desktops. Researchers say that could equal more »

What’s with India taking these gadget strides as of late? Remember that $35 tablet that they announced not too long ago? Well, in addition to the awesomeness that is known as the “Indian tablet,” a new e-reader, created by India’s very own EC Media International, has just launched as well. The reader, dubbed the “Wink,” more »