May 20, 2013

Ebooks - News


Best Buy Toshiba Portege R705 Notebook – Full Review

Toshiba Portege R705 Notebook

The Portege R705-P25 is the latest edition to Toshiba’s Portege range, and it has a lot to live up to to match the other great models released with the Portege badge. However, with an unbelievably light 3.2 pound chassis and a great overall build quality, the Portege R705 may just be the best Portege ever [...]

Barnes & Noble Nook Made Amazon to Slash Its Kindle Price, Amazon Kindle is now Available for $189

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Amazon dropped the price of the smaller of its two Kindle ebook readers to $189(Check out new prices and buy Amazon Kindle from Amazon), just hours after primary competitor Barnes & Noble lowered its Nook reader to $199. Before today, the Kindle and Nook were both priced at $259. Barnes & Noble, the largest book [...]

Steve Jobs Said Apple iPad Caught 22 Percent of Ebook Market

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Apple has just announced that the iPad has collected 22 percent of ebook sales since its launch and is about to get new features too. A PDF viewer is going to be thrown into the iBooks app later this month, and will be accompanied by new bookmarking and note-taking functionality. Then again, as Steve points [...]

BeBook Neo eReader with WiFi and WACOM Input Technology

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BeBook announcing that they’re taking preorders for their new BeBook Neo ereader. Packing a 6-inch E Ink panel with a Wacom touchscreen, the Neo may not have integrated 3G like some rivals we’ve seen, but it does get WiFi for accessing a range of third-party ebook stores. The E-reader Running on a 532MHz Freescale processor [...]

Dell Rolls out Latitude E4310 Ultra-Portable Business Notebooks

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The Dell Latitude e4310 is an Ultraportable notebook just announced by Dell and the latest member of the Dell Latitude E-Family of notebooks including the Latitude E5410 and E5510. The 13.3-inch Dell Latitude E4310 ultraportable, which is built for road warriors, responds to user requests and exchanges low-voltage processor options for standard voltage, in the [...]

Google Enters Ebook Market with Google Editions

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Google is set to launch its own online e-book store in 2010. Google Editions books will not be tied to a specific device, unlike rival e-book company Amazon. Analysts at the Yankee Group have predicted that the US ebook reader market is “about to catch fire sparking from $1.3bn (£0.86bn) in revenue in 2010 to [...]