Tag: Ebooks
Nook Simple Touch eReader price slashed to £29, Glowlight £69
Barnes & Noble have slashed the prices of their eReader and tablet ranges in the UK. The headline-stealing price cut is that of the Nook Simple Touch eReader, dropping to a pocket-money price of £29, down from £79, making it…
PocketBook Color Lux 8-inch backlit colour eReader launches
Colour E Ink, once the presumed Holy Grail of digital eReader display technology, has been more or less pushed under the carpet as LCD tablets have grown in popularity. But that hasn't stopped Russia's PocketBook from putting out a new…
REVIEW: Bookeen Cybook Odyssey HD FrontLight eReader
The Cybook Odyssey HD FrontLight sees Bookeen add a backlight and an improved screen resolution to the Cybook Odyssey eReader. But has the company fixed the issues that dragged down the last model, and can the HD FrontLight prove itself to be anything more than a knee-jerk reaction to Amazon's Paperwhite? Read our full review to find out.
Tablets killed the eReader star: Sales of dedicated reading devices on the decline
eReader sales are beginning to decline following the rise of inexpensive, high quality tablet devices. Research by iSuppli suggests that the eReader market peaked back in 2011, when 20 million devices were shipped, with their findings leading to the prediction…
Waterstones rile Kindle Paperwhite owners with branded screensaver for eReader bought from their store
Customers who have bought Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite eReader from Waterstones bookshops have had their feathers rustled by the inclusion of a static branded screensaver bearing Waterstones branding. Whereas Amazon-bought Paperwhite models have rolling pictorial screensavers that change with every shutdown,…
Nook Simple Touch Glowlight eReader lands in the UK, set to duke it out with Kindle Paperwhite
They've been a long time coming, but Barnes & Noble's Nook eReader range has finally hit the UK. The Nook Simple Touch and Nook Simple Touch Glowlight with built-in light are on sale now for £79 and £109 respectively, available…
REVIEW: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (Wi-Fi and 3G)
Does the inclusion of a built-in light make Amazon's latest Kindle E Ink eReader, the Paperwhite, their best yet? Or do a few omissions over earlier models drag it down? Read our full review to find out!
Turn Wikipedia pages into eBooks with new export option
Wikipedia have added a handy new feature to their online, crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, allowing users to download pages in eBook formats for offline reading. Users now have the option to export pages in EPUB, PDF, OpenDocument and OpenZIM files, meaning that…
Barnes & Noble Nook eReaders hitting John Lewis in UK first
Following last week's announcement that Barnes & Noble would be bringing their Nook eReader range to the UK for the first time this Autumn, the company have now revealed that John Lewis will be the first UK stockist of the…
Barnes and Noble Nook eReaders headed to the UK, including GlowLight
Barnes and Noble are to bring their Nook eReader range to UK shores for the first time this October. The only real competitors to the Amazon Kindle in the US, Barnes and Noble will be bringing their Nook Simple Touch…