Posts Tagged Amazon

Kobo to launch new limited-edition Aura HD e-reader

Despite the booming tablet market, there’s still money to be made in e-ink readers with Kobo announcing today the impending arrival of a new limited edition e-ink reader. Dubbed the Aura HD, Kobo says the new reader will go on sale in Australia in June. The device will feature a 6.8-inch high-resolution touchscreen electronic-ink panel [...]

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REVIEW: Amazon Kindle 3G (2nd-generation) ebook reader

Amazon Kindle 3G Rating: 9 out of 10 Price: approx. $230 (direct from Amazon.com) Contact: Amazon.com Web: www.amazon.com VERDICT: Amazon is still on top of its game for value, showing other Australian ereader makers how its done. The new Kindle 3G from Amazon.com costs about the same to import into Australia from the US as [...]

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Will color screens save Kindle from Apple’s iPad?

It’s been the quiet, almost refined area of the digital revolution. But while Amazon’s Kindle certainly did more to open up the book publishing archives than any device previous to it, there is growing feeling that the Kindle was just the floorshow for the main act – Apple’s iPad. In a report in InformationWeek today, [...]

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Borders, Amazon, Barnes & Noble in all-out e-book reader price war

When markets move, they can sometimes move very quickly. That’s what we’ve seen this week in the e-book reader market with Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Borders fighting to maintain their market share while sacrificing once-healthy margins. The move began earlier this week with Barnes & Noble releasing two new Nook readers – one with [...]

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Amazon cuts Kindle price to $189 in price war with Nook

It didn’t take long for Amazon to defend its e-book reader turf, quickly slashing the price of its Kindle reader by $70 to just $189. This takes the popular reader to $10 less than Barnes & Noble’s Nook Wi-Fi+3G model. Both the Kindle and Nook Wi-Fi+3G models enable users to purchase books anywhere  using 3G [...]

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