Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2 And Kindle DX Blog

Brother Releases Another Unspeakably Expensive E-Book Reader

shailpik — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:40:21 +0000

Brother is a Japanese company who already have an e-Book reader in the market called the SV-100B. That e-Book reader never made it to anywhere outside Japan but it is already time for a new version. Brother has now released a new model called SV-70. Interestingly, instead of making it even better, this is actually [...]

Sign-up for KDK limited beta is now open.

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:46:55 +0000

As of this morning I’ve received an email from Amazon (which resulted from leaving my email at KDK page earlier). Right now Amazon is considering first candidates for the limited KDK beta. You can head to https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/gp/vendor/kindlepubs/kdk/request-seat and fill out a form with your contact information as well as brief description of the content you [...]

Unicode Fonts Hack for International Kindle DX

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:10:20 +0000

I was away from home for extended period of time without access to a machine that I could rebuild UFH packages for the newly released International version of Kindle DX. Fortunately one of blog subscribers did. I’ve uploaded updated hack binaries to the Unicode font hack page. Related PostsNovember 26, 2009 -- Uninstalling old version of UFH [...]

Sony Welcomes The iPad And Predicts Death Of Paper Books

shailpik — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:48:02 +0000

Unlike most companies, Sony is sounding positively chirpy about Apple’s foray into the world of eBooks with their iPad, the iBooks app and the iBook Store. They welcomed Apple’s move into the eBooks domain and also predicted the imminent death of paper printed books as we know it. Steve Haber, president of Sony’s Digital Reading [...]

Delta Electronics Planning Ship Color And Monochrome E-Readers This Year

shailpik — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:12:10 +0000

It seems like the Apple iPad announcement has really shaken things up in the tech industry because we are suddenly hearing a lot of new announcements from companies we had almost forgotten about or did not know existed. The latest is Delta Electronics and their 13.1 inch e-reader that will carry a color e-paper display. [...]

Dual-Screen MSI Netbook Might Take A Shot At E-Readers

shailpik — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:30:52 +0000

MSI had gone on record late last year saying that they were looking at building an e-reader device that will compete with the other mainstream offerings that are already there in the market. Whether they changed that plan or are showing something completely new, we don’t know but MSI has been showing off a dual-touchscreen [...]

Kindle Apps Blog

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:36:43 +0000

With Amazon announcing Kindle SDK (KDK) I’ve decided to launch a separate Kindle Apps blog for reviewing and speculating about Kindle Apps. Since no apps has been released yet and little is known about the KDK itself I’ll be mostly speculating to begin with. The blog can be found at http://kindle-apps.net/ Random PostsMay 16, 2009 -- [...]

Mustek MER-6T Tries Hard To Be Different Without Actually Being So

shailpik — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:28:50 +0000

So Mustek is not exactly the company you would expect to be making a product like this but then this is that time in the history of technology when OEMs are making finished products and some are actually making it pretty big. So without further ado, allow me to introduce you to the MER-6T e-reader. [...]

Asus’ Debuts It’s Own DR-950 TouchScreen eBook Reader, One More Rumored

shailpik — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:25:56 +0000

Asus has this strategy of throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks. So earlier this month Asus officially acknowledged that they have an e-Book reader in the pipeline. There were rumors about an Asus e-reader that has a 5inch OLED screen that carries the model number DR-570. But this is called the DR-950 [...]

Apple iPad vs. Amazon Kindle

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:55:26 +0000

- Hi! I’m an iPad. - And I’m Amazon Kindle… So the much rumored “Kindle/netbook/everything killer” is revealed to the public and we can finally make a first guess about it’s prospects in eBook/eReader market that is getting increasingly crowded as well as it’s general chances of success. First of all it turns out that most of the [...]

Mirasol Hands On Impresses

shailpik — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:35:04 +0000

The eInk display technology (the same one that is used on Kindle screens) has a new rival. Far more than LG’s micro foil technology that is used by Hearst, Qualcomm’s Mirasol display technology is threatening to overtake eInk by the end of this year. Mirasol, as we reported earlier, is a new display technology that [...]

Interead Adds Two More COOL-ER Readers

shailpik — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:11:00 +0000

Interead has released new Cool-er models at CES in the hopes of finally being able to defeat the Kindle in its own game. While that might be just a pipe dream for this spiffy little start up (without things to match the Whispernet and the International Kindle), they sure are stepping things up in their [...]

Skiff Reader Debuts As The Largest As Well As The Thinnest eReader Ever

shailpik — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:43:18 +0000

Skiff is the result of the efforts put in by Hearst and it was previewed at this year’s CES. Skiff is an eBook reader like no other. It uses LG’s Micro Foil display technology that allows the device to be the largest and yet the thinnest eBook reader in existence. It is so thin that [...]

LiquaVista’s e-Paper Displays Come In Monochrome And Color

shailpik — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:19:59 +0000

If there’s one thing that has always been the complaint against e-book readers — it is the lack of color and also video in some cases. Of course, the counter argument was that it was a fair trade off for saving your retinas and achieving a paper like display on an electronic medium. It made [...]

SpringDesign Alex Gets Hands On Time At CES 2010

shailpik — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:21:02 +0000

SpringDesign wasn’t ready for a public show and tell when the Nook was announced. But due to the similarity between the two devices (and according to the Spring Design it is not coincidence), SpringDesign had to stick their neck out with an unfinished prototype. Now they finally have a finished version that can be played [...]

Kindle SDK (KDK) to be available next month

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:46:33 +0000

Well. Once more I have to eat my own words… Some time ago I wrote about why Kindle SDK wasn’t a likely thing and today Amazon announced it’s availability. Amazon must have been holding it up in it’s sleeve for quite some time. I believe that bringing all Kindle software to version 2.3 was made [...]

Kindle Now Open To Non-US Authors

shailpik — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:35:16 +0000

In welcome move, Amazon has decided to open up the Kindle platform to authors who are situated outside the US. So now authors from all over the world can sell their works on the various Kindles. This ensures a win-win situation for everyone involved — Amazon, Kindle users and the authors/publishers. A lot of good literature [...]

FB2 to PDF Conversion

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:01:13 +0000

I was recently looking around for an easy way to open FB2 eBooks on one of my Kindle. I’ve tried some FB2 to Mobipocket converter in the past and it failed miserably so I gave up on the idea for a while. Recently I gave it another try. This time around I’ve tried to convert [...]

Tablets Threaten To Devour eBook Readers

shailpik — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:44:31 +0000

I finally decided to address the elephant in the room and write about the tablets that are about to burst forth on to the scene. There has been a lot of talk about whether the tablets are going to kill off the eBook readers and my answer is both yes and no. Yes, I know [...]

Thought-provoking Kindle Photo

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:40:18 +0000

It kind of happened by itself… So I grabbed my camera and captured the moment… Related PostsApril 4, 2009 -- F.Scott Fitzgerald, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #4 (0)January 2, 2008 -- Review and High Quality Unboxing Photos of the Kindle from AppleInsider (1)

Nook Gets Updated To 1.1

shailpik — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:43:53 +0000

The Banes and Noble Nook eBook reader got updated just before Christmas. So those lucky(?) souls who got theirs delivered before or around that time were able to update their Nook for a comparatively nicer time reading eBooks on their new eBook reader on Christmas. But has the update made the Nook into a killer [...]

International Kindle DX ships on January 19th

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:06:29 +0000

Right after international Kindle 2 was shipped there were some speculations about international version of Kindle DX shipping sometime in 2010. Well… There is no need to speculate anymore. Amazon has just announced international availability of its 9.7″ eBook Reader. International Kindle DX is available for pre-order right now and will ship on the 19th [...]

Pixel Qi Hybrid Display Finds Its First Device

shailpik — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:43:23 +0000

The eInk-LCD hybrid display screen from Pixel Qi will be on display at the upcoming CES event and everyone’s really interested to see it in person. But before it goes up on display, many units of it would probably have been shipped to India for use on a new tablet device called Adam. Pixel Qi’s hybrid [...]

Plastic Logic Goes After The Business Users With QUE

shailpik — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:43:02 +0000

Plastic Logic has decided that making a general eBook reader will simply not cut it anymore and they are quite right in thinking that too. So they have announced that their eBook reader, called QUE, will be the world’s first “proReader”. What that they mean by that is what many company’s mean when they proudly [...]

Entourage eDGe Gets Video Hands on

shailpik — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:40:58 +0000

As time wears on, Entourage is getting closer and closer to finally releasing its Edge ‘dualbook’ device. This dual screen (eInk + LCD touchscreen) toting device has really gotten everybody’s attention. This device is part reader like a Kindle with a touchscreen and part Internet tablet like so many that are in the pipeline. The [...]