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Apple iPad eBook App is called ‘iBooks’

Amazon Kindle, meet your Voldemort. iPad has an ebook store and it’s called “iBooks”. Picture of the store interface after the jump. Publishers include Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette—the big boys. [Apple iPad] https://gizmodo.com/apple-ipad-everything-you-need-to-know-5458292 Doesn’t look like books will be cheap, but there should be a healthy price war soon. The example…

Commerce Joel Johnson

The Kandle Is a Really Good Name For an eReader Light

It’s a pun that works on every level. Plus, it will be compatible with kinds of eReaders—not just the Kindle thanks to a WideLip grip. Also features double pivoting arms and 2 LED light source. [Amazon via The Gadgeteer]

Commerce Sean Fallon

Instapaper for Kindle Updated, Makes Reading Long-Form Articles Easier

Instapaper, a program that lets you mark articles to be sent to your Kindle for later reading, just got a substantial update—and there isn’t even a Kindle app store yet! https://gizmodo.com/amazon-opens-kindle-up-for-development-app-store-ahoy-5453395 The update totally changes the formatting of articles to be more, well, Kindle-like, which is a very good thing. Your saved articles now look…

Commerce Dan Nosowitz

Amazon Forgot to Mention That Publishers Can Skip DRM on Kindle Books

Yesterday Amazon surprised us a bit with news of a Kindle app store, but there’s a change they haven’t mentioned: Publishers are now being allowed to skip adding DRM to Kindle books. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-opens-kindle-up-for-development-app-store-ahoy-5453395 According to Nieman Lab, several publishers noticed the change around January 15th when a “new option gave [them] the choice to…

Commerce Rosa Golijan

Amazon Opens Kindle Up for Development: App Store Ahoy

Amazon just announced that the Kindle will have its own app store, with partners ranging from publishers like Zagat to, believe it or not, game makers like EA. E-ink gaming? What? Says Amazon’s vice president for Kindle: We knew from the earliest days of the Kindle that invention was not all going to take place…

Commerce Dan Nosowitz

Amazon’s New Plan for eBooks: 70% Cut For Publishers, $10 Max Price

Amazon’s finally got some competition—and may be about to get even more—so they’re doing everything they can to stay competitive, and to keep publishers happy. This means higher revenue cuts, but also new rules. Interesting rules. https://gizmodo.com/apple-january-27th-come-see-our-latest-creation-event-5451005 The new system works like this: If they elect to publish under this new program, publishers are entitled…

Commerce John Herrman

Asus DR-950: Yet Another eBook Reader That’s More Impressive Than the Kindle

Out of nowhere, Asus has announced two promising eBook readers. The first had an OLED screen. And now their second reader, the DR-950, promises less color but still appears to be at least a generation beyond any Kindle. https://gizmodo.com/long-lasting-asus-dr-570-wants-in-on-the-ebook-reader-b-5450254 Just look at the screen to case ration of the DR-950—it’s within reason, like a painting…

Commerce Mark Wilson

The Ultimate Guide to Ebook Readers We Care About

There are too damn many ebook readers and it’s tough to figure out what’s worth buying and which reader will even survive the market. To make things easy, here’s our guide to the readers that matter—for now. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/there-are-officially-too-damn-many-ebook-readers-5443102 Of course we’re skipping some of the many ebook readers floating around, but quite frankly we…

Commerce Rosa Golijan

There Are Officially Too Damn Many Ebook Readers

A couple years back, we condemned digital photo frames as the spam of CES—this year, in the wake of the Christmas of Kindle, every company has its own ebook reader. And that’s a bad thing. https://gizmodo.com/ten-reasons-were-doomed-ces-edition-342495 There will soon be two kinds of happy ebook-reader owners. The people who paid a fair amount for a…

Commerce Wilson Rothman

Studios Offering 48 Hour Rentals On Amazon

Like our friend Dave Zats, you may have noticed that Amazon is offering an extra day of viewing for select online rentals. After a little digging, he discovered that the studios are the ones experimenting in this area. It’s hard for me to understand why someone would rent a movie online, then just walk away…

Commerce Sean Fallon

Guardian Waterproof Case Allows Me to Get My Kindle Wet

The Guardian polycarbonate waterproof case is all I need to get my Kindle on vacation to Goa. It won’t only protect it against cocktail spillage, but it will make it float on the tub or the sea. And on top of that, it’s waterproof down to one meter, just in case I want to take…

Commerce Jesus Diaz

Amazon Kindle DX Now Available in 100 Countries, Mobile Internet Available Everywhere

Amazon just gave their Kindle DX a worldwide launch, plus extended the mobile internet coverage across the globe for content downloads no matter where you’re at. International customers can pre-order now, and it will ship on January 19 for $490. Amazon Kindle DX Now for Sale to Customers in More Than 100 Countries Kindle DX…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Curious Man Buys $3 Billion CD-ROM For Windows 98 On Amazon, Shipping Was An Extra $4

Brian T Klug has balls, I’ll give him that. Why else would he have bought a Discovery Channel CD-ROM (Windows 98) incorrectly priced on Amazon to the tune of $2,904,980,000 just to see what would happen? As you can see from the image above, the result was that…well, he spent $3 billon on an ancient…

Commerce Sean Fallon

Skiff Reader: The Largest Yet Thinnest eBook Reader to Date

It’s bigger than any Kindle or device from B&N. Optimized for magazines and newspapers, the Skiff Reader offers a durable 11.5-inch (1600 x 1200) “Metal Foil” touchscreen display, but it’s still just a quarter of an inch thick. Connecting to the upcoming Skiff digital store via Wi-Fi and Sprint’s 3G network, the Skiff Reader will…

Commerce Mark Wilson

How Amazon Dances Around Taxes So You Can Too

Amazon was almost founded on an Indian reservation, so it’d be immune to taxes. Fifteen years later, it’s still outmaneuvering sales taxes so we don’t have pay them either. With free shipping if you’re patient and no sales tax in most states, Amazon can undercut almost anybody by at least 5 percent—I know it’s why…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Jeff Bezos on the Inevitable Obsolescence of Books

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tells Dan Lyons, aka FSJ, just how deep his “missionary zeal” for spreading the gospel of the Kindle runs: One day, it’s going to kill books entirely. The full quote: Lyons: Do you think that the ink-on-paper book will eventually go away? Bezos: I do. I don’t know how long it…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Is Your Kindle Spying On You? (Yes.)

If you don’t want other people to know what you read, you probably shouldn’t own an ereader. And you really shouldn’t get a constantly connected Kindle or Nook, at least according to the EFF’s eye-opening guide to ebook privacy. The Kindle and Nook are tied to Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s respective bookstores, meaning every…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas

Amazon’s Kindle hit an important and startling milestone yesterday: On Christmas, the company sold more Kindle books than physical books. Yes, this is obviously the result of everyone who got a Kindle for Christmas (lots of folks) firing it up and ordering a bunch of eBooks on a day in which most physical-book readers weren’t…

Commerce Chris Jacob

The Secret Lives of Amazon’s Elves

If Amazon is Santa, 400 folks living in RVs outside the Coffeyville, Kansas fulfillment center this winter are the elves. A few years back Chris Dunphy and Cherie Ve Ard flipped the bird to their desk jobs, packed their belongings in a custom 17-foot solar-powered fiberglass camper, and hit the road to live “at the…

Commerce Joel Johnson

Amazon Won’t Be The Only One Selling Kindle Books Next Year

Scribd, the YouTube for print, is working on a new way to get e-books onto your Kindle without buying them from Amazon. Right now, to get one of the tens of millions of Scribd documents has — books, papers, and other content — off the web and into a Kindle, a user has to email…

Commerce The Business Insider

Apple iPad eBook App is called ‘iBooks’

The Kandle Is a Really Good Name For an eReader Light

Instapaper for Kindle Updated, Makes Reading Long-Form Articles Easier

Amazon Forgot to Mention That Publishers Can Skip DRM on Kindle Books

Amazon Opens Kindle Up for Development: App Store Ahoy

Amazon’s New Plan for eBooks: 70% Cut For Publishers, $10 Max Price

Asus DR-950: Yet Another eBook Reader That’s More Impressive Than the Kindle

The Ultimate Guide to Ebook Readers We Care About

There Are Officially Too Damn Many Ebook Readers

Studios Offering 48 Hour Rentals On Amazon

Guardian Waterproof Case Allows Me to Get My Kindle Wet

Amazon Kindle DX Now Available in 100 Countries, Mobile Internet Available Everywhere

Curious Man Buys $3 Billion CD-ROM For Windows 98 On Amazon, Shipping Was An Extra $4

Skiff Reader: The Largest Yet Thinnest eBook Reader to Date

How Amazon Dances Around Taxes So You Can Too

Jeff Bezos on the Inevitable Obsolescence of Books

Is Your Kindle Spying On You? (Yes.)

Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas

The Secret Lives of Amazon’s Elves

Amazon Won’t Be The Only One Selling Kindle Books Next Year

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