There’s a good post on the Nook forum where users are talking about what features they’d like to see in the next version of the Nook. Amazon should steal some of those ideas – they’re good and a few are marvellous. What’s Sauce for the Goose Here are the ideas that were interesting – Ability to add notes and highlights to a PDF.   Ability to delete items forever via…  Read More →

Fujitsu has taken a major step forward by improving the contrast ratio, the refresh speed, and the brightness of its color eReader technology. It’s amazing that Fujitsu are able to evolve their color ePaper and bring those improvements to market faster than PVI/eInk can evolve its black and white ePaper. This latest color eReader screen from Fujitsu will be released in Japan in Fall 2010. Fujitsu Color eReader improvements –... 

After Apple announced that 1.5 million ebooks had been sold in the first month on 1 million iPads you’d think it wasn’t a very significant sales channel for ebooks. However,  Publishers beg to differ .   Publishers claim iPad is the #2 ebook seller and then sales double, triple Notice the interesting and impossible details revealed (when you piece them together …  Read More →

Given how the press are fawning over the iPad this might seem a strange, contrarian question. It isn’t. It’s very valid because there’s a big contrast – January and February – Something magical is going to arrive.  March - Look it’s pretty and it does a lot of things. April – The WiFi version of the iPad is good and it isn’t necessarily better for reading than the Kindle. It’s in people’s... 

Consider what the Press and people who don’t read have been predicting – When the Kindle first came out (end 2007) – No one’s going to buy Kindles. No one reads any more. People can just read on their PCs. $399 is too expensive. In mid 2009 – No one’s buying Kindles and that’s why Amazon hasn’t released numbers. People will just read on their iPhones. $299 is too expensive. Right Now – No one’s going to... 

Let’s start with a free romance novel for your kindle (a very, very short one) – Colters’ Wife by Maya Banks. Rated 4 stars on 8 reviews. More a short story than a novel. It’s got quite an interesting set of (contrasting) reviews – Reviewer 1: Crude: offensive sexual content. Stopped and deleted after the first chapter. Reviewer 2: the sexual contact was actually pretty tame compared to the first book. Reviewer... 

It’s pretty annoying to always have the iPad compared with Kindle and Nook and to hear all sorts of strange things – iPad is the best-selling tablet – selling more than the Kindle tablet. iPad is going to become the #1 eReader. Kindle was the best tablet before the iPad came out. There are two main ideas that are…  Read More →

It’s a little bewildering to see the post topics at the official Kindle forum – Might the 2.5 update bin file slip out as a torrent or to Rapidshare, etc?  Show me your collections! 2.5 — if it’s now a full release, why can’t we download it? Does any K2 owner have the 2.5 update? question for those that have the update We have Kindle owners creating their collections even before getting the update, people …  Read More →

Lots of interesting things going on today -  The Static of the Spheres by Eric Kraft is sky-rocketing up the charts (up 44,110%). It’s just $1 – Not sure if it’s a novel or a short story. Teleread has a post by Rich Adin claiming that Steve Jobs is going to snooker the Agency Model 5  next April when their 1 year contract with Apple runs out. It’s probably true. If the iPad becomes a significant ebook channel Steve... 

Stephen Windwalker at the Kindle Nation blog makes a very good point - perhaps we should think of our libraries of Kindle Books as legacies to pass on to favored heirs. Let’s start with what already exists. Kindle’s Shared Account Feature Amazon lets you add multiple Kindles to your account in the Manage My Kindle page. There isn’t really any limit specified in terms of how many Kindles you can add (neither on the page nor... 

Apple finally disclosed some official iPad sales figures and here are the three figures that stood out – 1 million iPads had been sold by Friday. That’s almost as many as the number of articles written about the iPad (think about it before you dismiss the idea ;) ).   12 million apps were downloaded.  1.5 million eBooks were downloaded from the iBooks store. It’d be nice to know some more details – especially... 

May is certainly starting off well – Breach of Trust  by DiAnn Mills. Rated 4.5 stars on 28 reviews. It’s a romantic suspense/thriller. Paige Rogers, the kindly librarian of Split Creek, Oklahoma, has a secret. She’s a former CIA agent, the sole survivor of an attack on her team during a covert mission in Angola. Paige thinks that Daniel Keary, their leader at the time, caused the deaths of her friends. Knowing that someone wants... 

There was a car repair ad on TV and it reminded me of these two emails that used to be popular (perhaps they still are) – An email saying that if cars had progressed as rapidly as computers we would have prices that were 1/10th or less, cars would be much more efficient, and a lot of other things. A response email that said that if cars had progressed as computers have we would have cars that shut down at any time, became unresponsive... 

It’s amazing to see all the growth in reading devices in the last few months – Nook got a fancy new browser and features.  The iPad came out and lots of people are supposedly using it as their eReader. Kindle announced new features (arriving in May) and Kindle for PC got new features.  Lots of new eReaders were released.  Authors will start getting 70% in the Kindle Store in July. They are already getting 70% in the iPad... 

Amazon continues to keep the party going – The Fence my Father Built by Linda S. Clare. Rated 4.5 stars on 11 reviews. Published by Abingdon Press and very promising – [From a Top 500 Reviewer At Amazon, Christina Lockstein] The Fence My Father Built by Linda S. Clare is a poignant novel about finding where you belong. Muri Pond is taking her two children, Nova and Tru, home to her father’s home in the desert area of Oregon...