The competition must have been so stiff right now in the e-reader maker, forcing Sony to offer a couple of affordable deals for the Sony Reader. In case you’re thinking of getting yourself between now and until December 24, you might want to check out the Sony Reader. Sony has just cut down the Wi-Fi more »

Now that Borders is no more, many people are pointing the finger at ebooks and blaming them for the company’s demise. It’s simply not true. If ebooks were so evil as to be able to bring down huge bookstore chains in a single download, Barnes and Nobel would be following them down the road to more »

After years of flatly refusing to even consider it, author J.K. Rowling seems ready to finally let her wildly popular Harry Potter series come to e-books. For fans this is a long awaited and very welcome announcement. She plans to create and sell them herself through her Pottermore website. The books will be released this more »

Investors say that Amazon is the most logical choice to buy Barnes & Noble should the bookseller put themselves up for sales as they’ve been hinting they might. The two companies have been locked in a digital battle between their competing e-readers, the Kindle and the Nook. When Barnes & Noble announced they were cutting more »

I have an odd knack for buying or upgrading a device right before a new one was announced. I bought the original Kindle in November of 2008. 3 months later the Kindle 2 was announced. I finally upgraded to the K2 3 weeks ago and guess what? Hello Kindle 3! It is a gorgeous looking more »

While Amazon and Barnes and Noble and their dueling e-readers fight it out in price wars, Sony announced that they really aren’t interested in joining in and appears to have no plans to change their pricing: “Pricing is one consideration in the dedicated reading device marketplace, but Sony won’t sacrifice the quality and design we’re more »

E-readers are becoming more and more popular and that’s sparked some price wars. Barnes and Noble dropped the price of their Nook to $149, and Amazon responding by promptly dropping the price of the red hot Kindle to $149 and introducing a sleeker, less expensive DX with a better screen. Borders got into the game more »

The publishing industry has been gushing over Apple and the upcoming iPad ever since Apple announced it would allow prices above $9.99, a price point the industry has been resenting ever since Amazon released its popular Kindle e-reader. Last month Steve Jobs announced that 5 major publishers, the Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan, the more »

Apple take note: According to a study by the NPD Group, a whopping 93% of e-reader owners are very happy with their devices and only 2% said they were totally unhappy. When asked what their favorite features were, 60% said wireless connectivity while 23% said it was the touch screen. “Both the display technology and more »

Amazon has announced that Digital Text Platform self publishing tool is now available to authors around the world and that support for French and German languages has been added. Previously only English was supported. The Digital Text Platform (DTP) allows writers to publish their own books for the Kindle by uploading a PDF, TXT, Word more »