As they have spread their products across iPhone, iPad, Android and Kindle Fire … could the Nook Tablet have been far behind? Of course not! According to Marti Miernik, Head of Communications of G5 Entertainment and all around cool person: “Mobile gaming has taken off! The continued growth of smartphone and tablet sales and increasing [...]
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If An eBookstore Falls in the Internet and No One Hears It…
(image courtesy nikdaum) eBooknewser reported today that Amazon quietly shut down Mobipocket, an ebook store that those of us with PDA roots probably remember fondly. Amazon purchased Mobipocket and still uses their format as the basis for Kindle books. After reading the post, I headed over to Mobipocket and found what appears to be the [...]
Does Anyone Buy eBook Readers For The Hardware Anymore?
There’s an interesting (and honestly, inevitable) trend in the book world lately: no one’s talking hardware anymore. Yes, there’s new devices, and sales are touted when they’re impressive. But the big announcements that come up again and again are “ebook sales are increasing by these triple digits/these authors are making this much money through ebooks/we [...]
Barnes And Noble Offers Free And Reduced NOOKS With Subscriptions!
Big news from B&N today! They’re looking to push down the price of the NOOK and drive more subscription services, so they’ve combined the two! You can get a free NOOK Simple Touch or a $99 NOOKcolor with a subscription to the New York Times through B&N ($19.99/month). Alternately, if you are more of the [...]
Barnes and Noble Reports Their Holiday Sales
It’s good news/bad news/WHOA! news from Barnes & Noble this evening. Everything good they had to say came with some bad news, and with some news that could go either way … let’s look at the good and the bad,21 here! First, NOOKTablet sales were off the charts, and B&N had a 70% increase in [...]
ePillow Tablet Pillow review
Every now and then we are invited to review something that just looks… well… ridiculous but we end up agreeing to take a look anyway. When the “ridiculous review item” first arrives and we open the box our first impressions are, for the most part, confirmed. Yes, more often than not the product is silly, [...]
Free eBooks from the Local Library!
I swung by my local library today and discovered they put together a very clever way of promoting library eBooks. They had free “gift cards” out for “free eBooks”, which was just a printed card with the library’s website on the front and QR code for the site on the back. The marketing campaign signs [...]
NOOK Tablet Apps: The Anti-Deal?
Good news! You can now play Words With Friends on your NOOK Tablet. Bad news…it’ll cost you $2.99! Apparently there’s no free rides in the NOOK ecosystem, as many apps that are free with ads on bigger platforms cost a small amount on the NOOK. This is a trend we’ve seen in other “big” apps [...]
Angry Birds Released for Original 1989 Nintendo GameBoy!
Well … ok, maybe not! But thanks to the mad image juxtaposition skills of Dan Cohen, it looks that way. And really, just HOW surprised would you have been if it WAS true? Let’s be serious – Angry Birds has ‘jumped the shark’ … in reality it did so in 2010. It is a cute [...]
Can’t Burn This – Fahrenheit 451 Released as a 50th Anniversary eBook!
I have always loved Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and introduced my kids to the book as well as the 1966 movie (free to stream on Netflix or Amazon with accounts). Now for the 50th anniversary of the classic novel, Bradbury has finally relented and allowed for an eBook release. From the LA Times: Simon & [...]
Were More NOOKcolors Rooted Than We Thought?
(image courtesy Put Me In Coach) The new NOOK Tablet is out, and slowly but surely more details about how it is different from its NOOKcolor predecessor are being released. For most users, the Tablet is a great upgrade; better screen, more memory, more multimedia options…it’s a win all around. But what about the people [...]
TruConnect Brings Cheap & Easy 3G to Your Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet!
Last month I reviewed the TruConnect ‘pay as you go’ mobile broadband solution, saying: TruConnect absolutely delivers on their claims of a simple device, easy setup and configuration, and clear pricing of as little as $4.99 per month. Beyond that, every person needs to make their own value judgement in terms of the data fees. [...]
Holiday Gift Guide: For Your Favorite Reader
From the Editorial Staff of Gear Diary: Is there someone in your life who loves to read? If so, here are five gifts with which you can’t go wrong. Kindle/NOOK: Either one, but this is a must for anyone who loves reading. And the entry-level prices make them an affordable tablet companion even if you already [...]
Kindle Fire Shows Android Cross-Market Problem; Nook Tablet Limits Revealed
I wrote about the Android app TouchDown by NitroDesk as an ‘App I Can’t Live Without’, so naturally when I got my Kindle Fire, one of the first things I did was load up TouchDown from the Amazon Appstore for Android to configure my work email account. The problem came when I went to switch [...]
NOOKTablet Is Announced
Well, the rumors turned out to be true, and the NOOK Tablet (aka NOOKcolor 2) is official. B&N is releasing a minor upgrade to the NOOKcolor, with an HD screen and an emphasis on multimedia. The real question is this: B&N is #2 in the ebook world, and will consumers pay more money to buy [...]
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