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Can Dedicated e-Readers Compete With the iPhone?

Written on November 02, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 4 people have commented

Over at our sister site GigaOM, Om takes a look at the rising trend of e-book sales on the iPhone/iPod touch platform. According to a survey by San Francisco mobile tech analytics firm Flurry, one in five apps launched during the month of October on the App Store was a book. Book releases for the [...]

Kindle Software Coming to the Mac

Written on October 27, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 2 people have commented

The competition is really heating up in the e-reader market. Hot on the heels of Barnes & Noble’s newly-released Nook reader, Amazon last week announced its Kindle branded e-book reader software for the PC. With it, users will be able to read their electronic books on their Kindle and on their desktop PC, too. And, [...]

Apple’s Mythical Tablet Perfect for Comic Books

Written on October 23, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 9 people have commented

In his latest article for the Chicago Sun Times, Mac-afficianado and supergeek Andy Ihnatko discusses LongBox, an iTunes-like comic book online store and screen reader. If you’re into graphic novels, you’ll likely want to know more about this service, which promises to bring order and unity to the chaotic digital world of comic books. What [...]

Waterfield Designs: Cases for Apple Purists

Written on June 19, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 18 people have commented

Like some of you, I’m quite the “Apple purist.” I’m not a fan of fancy cases that junk up my Macs. I don’t like skins for my iPods and those plastic snap cases for my laptop. We all know that Apple designs beautiful products, so we might as well show them off! Balancing protection and beauty, the stylish and functional cases from Waterfield Designs are some of the highest quality cases I have ever used.

Kindle Store Now Optimized for iPhone Viewing, Better App Integration

Written on May 11, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

Amazon has been making moves left and right lately. Since the launch of the Kindle 2 in late February of this year, they’ve rolled out a number of interesting developments, including the release of the Kindle for iPhone app, the acquisition of popular e-book reader Stanza for the iPhone/iPod touch platform, and the recent release [...]

First Look: Amazon Kindle for iPhone

Written on March 04, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 31 people have commented

That sound you heard across the Internet late Tuesday night was every tech blogger on the planet clicking on iTunes to download the new Kindle for iPhone app. This free app lets you read any of the hundreds of thousands of books that are available in Amazon’s Kindle Store. The Kindle for iPhone boasts the [...]

A Kindle-r, Uglier iPod For E-books?

Written on November 19, 2007 by Bob Rudis and 6 people have commented

Unless you’ve been enjoying an early start on your Thanksgiving vacation, you couldn’t avoid reading about Amazon’s newest effort to purvey their wares, the Kindle reader. Some are even calling it “Reading 2.0″.
BusinessWeek threw down the gauntlet with their “Buy Amazon – Kindle is the iPod of books” story today. That is a brazen statement [...]