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Eight Million Kindles Sold In 2010?

2:40PM December 22, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Amazon isn’t rushing to confirm the numbers, but there are reports that the company is on track to sell eight million Kindles in 2010. Sounds like a very happy year for the e-commerce giant. [Bloomberg via All Things D] More »

Gadgets

Aluratek’s $US179 LCD-Based Libre eBook Reader Goes Cheap

12:27PM December 9, 2009 | Jason Chen

The Libre eBook Reader PRO has a 2GB SD card with a monochrome reflective light LCD instead of an e-Ink display, which puts into a different bucket than the other eBook readers shipping recently. Plus, it’s only $US179. More »

Gadgets

iRiver Story Reviewed: Nice, But No Kindle…or Reader

1:30AM December 3, 2009 | Mark Wilson

PC Pro reviewed the iRiver Story. And to no one’s surprise, it’s not a bad eBook/PDF reader, but it’s too expensive compared to more established competitors. More »

Gadgets

EnTourage Edge: Half Ebook Reader, Half Tablet, All Hideous

1:52AM October 21, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Have you ever wondered how a bunch of people come up with the same brilliant idea at the same time? Like an ereader with two screens? Half of the enTourage eDGE is an e-Ink reader. The other’s an Android tablet. More »

Gadgets

Amazon Tries To Make Amends For Deletion Of 1984 With Warm Words, Cold Hard Cash

1:59PM September 4, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Remember Amazon’s remote deletion of all Kindle copies of 1984? Big bro’ Amazon is trying to make nice by offering affected users some pretty words along with $US30 checks in lieu of redelivery of 1984 (with your original annotations). More »

Gadgets

Sony’s PRS-300, PRS-600 EBook Readers Leaked In Service Manuals

6:30AM July 31, 2009 | Jason Chen

The followups to Sony’s PRS-700 eBook reader seem to have surfaced in some service manuals dated July 2009. The two readers have these specs: More »

Gadgets

Samsung’s SNE-50K EBook Reader Has Office Document Support

9:30AM July 29, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

We’re still waiting to see the Papyrus in the States, but South Korea is already slated to get another Samsung ebook reader, the SNE-50K, with an expected $US274 price tag. More »

Gadgets

Busted: Why I Can’t Wait For Flexible Displays

8:26AM June 15, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

When I got up this morning, I threw my Kindle in my bag’s padded corduroy laptop sleeve like I always do. A few hours later, I pulled it out and it looked like this. If only its display was flexible. More »

Computing

Kindle DX Sells Out In Two Days

4:39AM June 13, 2009 | Jason Chen

Kindle DX (reviewed here) just started shipping Wednesday on Amazon and it’s already sold out. Either people really love that DX, or the Earth only produces enough resources to sustain manufacturing a few units at a time. [Amazon via Macworld]