Category: E-Books
Google Editions E-Book Store To Launch This Month
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Google's long awaited Google Editions could launch as soon as this month. There has been talk of Google entering the e-book business since 2009, but has continually been delayed, until…
Amazon Kindle headed to PlayBook tablet, and BlackBerry Video Messenger too?
Amazon have announced that they will be bringing their Kindle e-book reading smarts to RIM's just announced BlackBerry Playbook tablet. "Amazon.com today announced that it will launch a Kindle app for the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer", the company said…
VIDEO PREVIEW – Sony's new Touch and Pocket Readers
Tech Digest today met up with Omar Gurhan, category manager for Sony's range of Reader devices. He talks us through their 2010 line-up in the above video, giving all the details on the latest improvements to their Touch and…
Sony Touch and Pocket Reader ebook line-up – Hands On
Sony have today been showing off their updated range of ereader devices. Both the Pocket and Touch Reader devices have been given a once-over, with revamped touchscreens on both models, as well as smaller and lighter builds. Tech Digest went…
Next Oxford English Dictionary will only be available digitally
21 years in the making, and with at least another decade's left of work for the team of 80 odd lexicographers working on it, compiling the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is a pretty mammoth undertaking, to say…
Two thirds prefer Amazon Kindle to the iPad (but only for ebooks)
Apple's iPad may have an app for everything, but in a straight up fight with the Amazon Kindle in the eBook stakes, it just cant cut it. That was the finding of new research by One News Page, who…
IFA 2010: Elonex 500EB colour eReader previewed – VIDEO
While eReader's sit in a somewhat precarious position now that the tablet onslaught is in full swing, that hasn't stopped Elonex from marching ahead with their latest colour eBook reader, the 500EB. Darren Smith from Elonex talks us through…
Plastic Logic Que ProReader axed: is the iPad to blame?
Plastic Logic have announced that their Que ProReader device will no longer be making it's way out of the development stages, after previously having wowed the crowds at this year's CES 2010 conference. An unusually large e-reader at 10.7 inches…
Amazon considering new hardware lines alongside the Kindle?
Buoyed by the massive success that has been their Kindle e-reader device, Amazon are now thought to be spreading their wings further in the hardware market, potentially looking at media playback devices. New job postings at the company's Lab 126…
Sharp to develop e-readers
Sharp Corporation, perhaps best known for their HD TVs and pioneering AQUOS quad-pixel LCD tech, have announced that they are to begin work on e-reader hardware and a distribution platform for ebooks. Though still very much in the early development…
