Kindle e-books are going to get a lot more attractive thanks to Kindle Format 8. Kindle Format 8 is the successor to the Mobi 7 format, and adds a boatload of new features that will help publishers give their books that extra pop. Amazon highlights children’s books, graphic novels and cookbooks as some of the products that will benefit from Kindle Format 8 the most thanks to over 150 new formatting options. Only the Kindle Fire will be able to take advantage of KF8 at first. Amazon will bring support for Kindle apps and the latest Kindles in the months to come.

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 »

The current sound formats have been around for quite a while. It seems we’ve been dealing in MP3 and AAC forever. Neither are perfect when it comes to representing the original sound recording, though most consumers tend not to worry too much about that. A new generation is here, though, bringing in the next generation more »

It is widely known that the future of Blu-ray is in 3D and a feasible idea for this was shown by Panasonic at the CEATEC show in Japan although it was pre-production. However they have now made a bid to be king of this future market with a proposal to the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association) regarding a way of producing two way (left and right eye) full High Definition discs.