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By Wilson Rothman My pet theory as to why Sony and others have sold any ebook readers at all in the US is that they appear in retail locations, unlike Kindle. Because if anything but the Nook was showcased side-by-side with the Kindle in a showroom, the decision to go with Amazon would be easy.)

By Jack Loftus Meow! Amazon's Jeff Bezos is on the warpath against Barnes & Noble's Nook, specifically its eBook lending feature. In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, he pulled no punches with some masterful hyperbole: Ah, but to lend once is better than never, right Jeff? As the Busine...

By Adam Frucci What will they be selling? Oh, you know, Apple products such as the iPhone, iPod and iMac as well as stuff such as the Playstation 3, Vaio notebooks, the Kindle, Nokia phones and the Wii.

By Sean Fallon As many Kindle owners already know, keeping a large number of books on the device can get a bit unruly—so this would be a welcome update. It's also good news for people on the fence about whether or not to get a Kindle or a Nook over the holidays. It appears that the Kindle is going to be the only gam...

By Rosa Golijan Nook, Kindle, Cool-er, Sony, Alex, Que. The ebook reader choices out there read like a biker chick's list of ex-lovers, and it's tough to pick the best. To us, it comes to a showdown between the newly reduced-price Kindle and the Nook, but we haven't reviewed the Nook yet—nobody has—so it's a...

By Jaymi Heimbuch iPhone just might be a device for Kindle to really keep an eye on as a competitor. In September, the number of book-related apps sold for iPhones outpaced games for the first time, indicating that the iPhone is gaining popularity as a convenient device for ebook reading.

By Jaymi Heimbuch This week on TreeHugger, the newest species of robo-fish, Google's PowerMeter partners with UK energy monitoring gadgets, the iPhone might be the Kindle killer, wind turbines that flap like bee...

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By John Herrman Pick your favorite public domain book. No, scratch that, pick your least favorite public domain book—something you had to read back in freshman year of college, and that you'd never think of going back to. Now, search for it in the App Store. Here's our answer:

By Jack Loftus Images were unavailable, although Engadget did manage to snag a source who snapped a blurry pic of the Creative UI reveal (pictured) earlier today. There will be a touchscreen, which would make this slate/tablet markedly different than an ebook like the Kindle, although somewhat simil...

By Jack Loftus Eat less candy? Read more? Indoctrinating America's youth against the the Kindle? We can't be sure what Apple's true intent was here, but what we do know is the kiddies seemed to love it. The bookmarks were all gone by 7:30 p.m. [iPhone Savior - Thanks, Seth]

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By Adam Frucci The move, if it did happen, would clearly be a response to the surging popularity of iPhone gaming. Only people who can pay thousands of yen a month [in mobile phone subscriptions] can be iPhone customers. That doesn't fit Nintendo customers because we make amusement products," Mr Iwata sa...

By Rosa Golijan The device is definitely slender as it's almost half as thin as a Kindle 2. It's said that it can be "bent to some extent since the circuit board and the electronic paper are flexible," but no one is saying how much "to some extent" is. No matter. While the lack of too many details about it or any pla...

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By Adam Frucci Windows isn't the only operating system getting a Kindle app; Amazon has just announced that they're prepping a Kindle app for Macs as well, allowing you to read your Kindle purchases right on your...

By Sean Fallon Amazon has responded to the release of Barnes and Noble's nook ereader by price matching their International Kindle down to $259. Eh, I'm not reading ebooks overseas. I still want a Nook. [NYT]

By matt buchanan One of the "surprises" at the Windows 7 keynote: a multitouch Kindle app for Windows 7 from Amazon. Ebook reading with pinch text zooming, and yes, color photos. Looks great. A full-color shot:

By Dan Nosowitz • Barnes & Noble Compares Nook to Kindle 2: Biased But Fair: In which BN thoughtfully explains why the Nook whups the Kindle 2's butt. • 8 Reasons You Can Finally Love Ebook Readers (Thanks to Nook): In which we explain why the Nook has finally gotten us excited about ebook readers.

By Dan Nosowitz Sharing is also done really well: As opposed to the Kindle, which only lets you read purchased ebooks on a same-account iPhone or iPod Touch, the Nook lets you read on any device supported, the most important of which are PC and Mac. So you and your significant other could read the same book at...

By Mark Wilson Cupertino released a lot of new products today, and it was easy to miss a lot in the press release onslaught. To stay versed in the Tome of Apple, here are 10 things you need to know: 10. No, the Nook Is Not an Apple Product But it's about a bajillion times closer than the Kindle.

By John Herrman 4:31: Hey, some relevant background: Barnes & Noble has over a million books in their ebook store, and have seen over three million downloads for their mobile apps. They've even decided to give a quick nod to B&N-compatible hardware from iRex and Plastic Logic, which is awfully s...

By Wilson Rothman Not much here makes Nook look bad, though there are no major specs missing. It's a little thicker than Kindle 2, but it's also substantially shorter, which may be a more significant physical advantage. Max battery life is 10 days, rather than Kindle 2's 14, but we still need to know what that m...

By John Herrman Naturally, the main content source is the B&N ebook store, which has a reasonable—though not spectacular—selection of magazines and newspapers too. What the Nook has that other B&N-compatible readers don't, though, is sharing. As with Amazon's Kindle iPhone app, the Barnes &...

By Adam Frucci Behold, the power of a scary-sounding letter from a lawyer! Paul dropped his Kindle 2 and it broke. Amazon wanted $200 to replace it. Instead, they replaced it and gave him an additional $200. Damn,...

By Adam Frucci On June 21, 2009, I purchased an Kindle 2 e-book reader from the Amazon.com website. I purchased this device based, in substantial part, on the expectation that it would be reasonably durable. In particular, I expected that it would be approximately as durable as is ordinary in the consumer...

By matt buchanan It's an ugly little mutant, like a Courier screwed an EeePC and Kindle. The e-Ink screen's 9.7 inches—same as the Kindle DX—and readers ePub and PDF files. It'll let you take notes with stylus, or tap them out on a keyboard. On the Android side, which will apparently let you run full Android apps...

By Wilson Rothman Plastic Logic is a dark horse in the ebook reader business, having shown off prototypes of a large, decent-looking capacitive touchscreen ebook reader. Today that reader gets a shiny black finish and an official name—Que. Still no price.

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By Wilson Rothman As nice as it is, Plastic says again and again that it is not going after the Kindle market. They promise to reveal, at CES in January, a comprehensive platform for mobile professionals, namely document management. The goal is to have this thing replace all of the pages that people print out w...

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By matt buchanan This is apparently deeply frightening to already publishers. Why? Because once people expect a book for 10 bucks, they're not gonna pay $28 for it, which would seriously alter the economy of the publishing industry. And I mean, they're already deathly afraid of the very uncertain future o...

By John Herrman Google's come forth with a few more details about how their store, called "Google Editions" and now slated for the first half of 2010, will work. It'll open with a staggering 400,000 to 600,000 books to Amazon's 330,000 and Sony's 100,000 (though the latter is supplemented by nearly a mill...

By The Anti LumberJack The Barnes and Nobles e-reader project, set to be revealed next week, has been under development for years, with several devices of varying size and capability in the pipeline. First rumors said it would have a color e-ink screen. Then people said it didn't. They were both kind of right: The l...

By The Anti LumberJack Barnes and Noble's late to e-books. But the company's new gadget—first seen here—should address the weaknesses of all other readers with multiple screens, each playing to tech strengths....

By Wilson Rothman Kindle revelation of the day: While there may not be any extra service charges for the international edition (which costs just $20 more), the books themselves will cost more. This makes sense for roamers, certainly, since that effectively is the extra service charge, but it doesn't make...

By Wilson Rothman Speaking of experimental products, Time's Josh Quittner points out, on his blog, that several of Qualcomm's components could go together to make a formidable ebook device. Besides this screen, they've got the multi-network mobile chipset (Gobi), a respectable mobile CPU (Snapdrago...

By Jaymi Heimbuch This week on TreeHugger, a new place to put dead gadgets, how green is Dell's Latitude Z wireless charging, Apple's Tablet to take Kindle's place in schools, new iPhone apps, and more! Dell's Latitude Z and Its Wireless Charging Misses the Green Boat - The Dell Latitude Z has some phenomen...

By Wilson Rothman Hard drives have become so generic and commoditized, manufacturers are always trying to draw attention to their products in new ways. WD's My Book desktop drives now get an ebook-like screen, while the portable My Passport Elite gets a dock.

By John Herrman This is a found photo from a Facebook album, without context, which leaves some nagging questions: Is it a Kindle, or a Kindle 2? (The coloration up top screams Kindle 2 to me, but it's blurry.) Did the couple know their nuptials would be blessed with the presence of His Holy Whispernet? Was t...

By Brian Lam Several years ago, a modified version of OS X was presented to Steve Jobs, running on a multitouch tablet. When the question of "what would people do with this?" couldn't be answered, they shelved it. Long having established music, movie and TV content, Apple is working hard to load up iTune...

By Joanna Stern This is where I want a bright colored Kiddie Kindle with a color E-Ink screen. Disney has launched its Digital Books site. For $8.95 a month kids can access over 500 ebooks, including Winnie the Pooh...

By Joanna Stern The entire reader is browser based and the books feature animated illustrations and authentic character voices. Amazon, a color Kindle Kiddie would be so cool! In the meantime the Disney Netpal netbook will have to do for viewing the interactive childrens ebooks, but a kid can dream. [Dis...

By Adam Frucci Bad news for Amazon, who's hoping that in the future all college students will read their textbooks through the oversided Kindle DX: the first students to use it, at Princeton, are not fans....

By Adam Frucci Yee-ouch! Further complaints include the fact that the lack of concrete page numbers make citing sources a huge pain in the ass and the fact that you need to charge up the battery for it to work. I guess physical textbooks will be around for a while longer, eh? [Daily Princetonian via Engadge...

By Wilson Rothman The iPhone car dock we've all been waiting for—TomTom's roughly-hundred-dollar no-app-included dock with GPS and audio enhancements, which may or may not make the iPod Touch a GPS-capable machine—got a confirmed price today of £100. And €100. But no mention of US American Dollars. And no...

By Joanna Stern It is built to give your 10 incher the utmost protection with a molded foam exterior. It also has a pocket for the power brick which many competing netbook cases forgot to include. I also like the fact that you can turn the shoulder strap into a backpack of sorts and you can put other gadgets in th...

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By Wilson Rothman iPhone App Updates The iPhone Kindle app was a good start, but we haven't heard much about it since the beginning. It lacked the ability to shop, it had no search or dictionary. Many people still feel that the ebook trend will only take off when the smartphones (all of 'em)—plus netbooks and ta...

By Jason Chen 10:38 AM ON May 6 2009 matt: Oh, here go! Jeff Bezos. 10:39 AM ON May 6 2009 matt: That's 35 percent of all the books Amazon sells. Kindle. Whoa. 10:45 AM ON May 6 2009 matt: Kindle DX! 10:47 AM ON May 6 2009 matt: Photos look better, though still black and white.

By Wilson Rothman The developer, Jesse Vincent, swears he didn't "hack" the new Kindle—rather, he wrote a "package" that happens to run on it. The thing doesn't crack DRM files, it just converts specific unprotected files on the fly—from PDF and ePub to Mobipocket, so it feels like they are supported by the...

By Wilson Rothman You may be reading this as a slam on Amazon and Kindle, but the fact is, I am a proponent of pushing forward with the ebook concept. I think it's still easier to read books on E-Ink screens than it is to read them on an iPhone's LCD, and while there's no perfect ebook reader, E-Ink and other electr...

By matt buchanan You don't wanna wear out your eyes reading superlong Kindle 2 reviews before you get one, right? Well here's our review matrix for quick, easy-on-the-eyes digestion of reviews from tech's biggest names.

By John Mahoney Other great moments include Bezos admitting the Kindle reading voice is a "little freaky," Stewart dissing Amazon Prime, Bezos pushing the benefits of being able to read comfortably "with one hand" and Stewart feigning shock at the $359 price tag, which he was obviously well aware of: "...

By Wilson Rothman • Longer battery life: It already ran for a week or more with 3G turned off, but now it can go two weeks—my guess is, there's a point in there where people simply find time to charge their Kindle. • File conversion: There's still no native PDF support, in fact PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP a...

By Wilson Rothman In the US, the debate between the Kindle and the Sony Reader is one of closed platform versus open one. (Ironic that Sony is the "open" platform here.) The Sony does have a DRM-heavy ebook retail operation, but it also plays, among other things, the many free PDF-format ebooks that are widely...

By Brian Lam As I said, I read a great deal more than I usually do on this trip and faster. How much of that was me being on vacation versus me being on the Kindle? To be honest, I haven't read very much since I've come back home. I blame the computer and internet's endless bounty of shorts, but my experience usi...

By Brian Lam 8:33 Mossberg: Could you separate Kindle's whispernet from Sprint? Bezos: We have to think globally, so yes. 8:41 Bezos: You might consider the web the ultimate book that you'd choose over everything else. Mossberg: You might want to go to Amazon.com and order the Kindle Shoe Edition.

By matt buchanan The Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle are portable media devices designed to carry and display e-books and other electronic documents. Kindle has a mobile broadband function that allows users to browse online content and download e-books while on the go. Alternatively, the Sony Reader r...

By Wilson Rothman USB disk folder appearance of Sony Reader:USB disk folder appearance of Amazon Kindle:There's no way to download books from Sony's store without using the special eBook Library software, which is cumbersome and works only with Windows PCs.

By Wilson Rothman People bitch about a lack of Wi-Fi, but as a fan of wide-area wireless, I think Sprint's EV-DO was a good way to go, because it's available in more places. And as far as the lack of backlight, I am inclined to believe the messaging from both Amazon and Sony, that E-Ink is easier on the eyes than an...