All the stories tagged with digital book
Pedophile’s Guide no longer available on Amazon.com
11/11/2010, Remember “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct” e-book which was on sale on Amazon.com? Well, we covered the hoo-ha that surrounded said title yesterday, and it didn’t take long for Amazon to respond as [...]
Amazon Controversy with Kindle Book: The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure
11/10/2010, Amazon has found itself in the middle of controversy by selling a Kindle digital e-book that, as its title promotes, is a guide for pedophiles. The digital ‘Pedophile’s Guide for to Love and Pleasure’ has prompted 762 1-star reviews, placing [...]
PocketBook IQ and 602 Android-Powered Low Cost Tablets Now Shipping for U.S.
11/10/2010, It looks like the PocketBook IQ and the 602 e-readers, both powered by Google’s Android operating system, will be hitting the U.S. market. The IQ sports a 7-inch LCD screen and will be priced at $150 while the 602 features [...]
New Kindle Ad Takes Jab at iPad
09/13/2010, Amazon’s recent Kindle ad highlights the benefits of reading with e-ink technology under direct sunlight while taking aim at Apple’s iPad, which functions as both an electronic book reader and a multi-function device offering games, browsing, music listening, and entertainment [...]
Kindle 3 Software Update Allows On-Device Amazon Account Creation
09/10/2010, The Kindle–and by proxy the Kindle 3–should be able to create Amazon accounts on the device just by the nature of its untethered access to books on Amazon’s storefront, but that wasn’t the case prior to Kindle software version 3.0.1. [...]
iPads Now Powering 8th Grade Algebra Textbooks
09/09/2010, As a sign of the changing times, four pilot eighth grade classrooms will be using Apple’s iPad tablets as digital readers to learn algebra. The iPad will come pre-loaded with the textbook from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and according to [...]
Kno Tablet Gets Additional Funding to Make Digital Textbook Reader
09/08/2010, Startup Kno is getting an additional $46 million in funding for its dual-panel tablet, made suitable for digital textbooks and the education market. The clamshell tablet that folds together like a book, similar to the Toshiba Libretto netbook, debuted at [...]
Sony Justifies Higher Price E-Readers With More Features
09/02/2010, Sony is taking the opposite route of its big rivals Amazon and Barnes & Noble with its own branded E-Reader electronic-ink based digital book reading devices. Unlike Amazon, which has introduced lower prices for the latest Kindle, and Barnes & [...]
Disney digital books
10/01/2009, Want your little ones to pick up a love for reading? Why not let Disney help with their new range of eBooks that will feature a “Disney-level experience.” For example, these eBooks will come with a ‘look and listen’ section [...]
