Amazon has called the media together for a press conference in New York on 9 February, prompting speculation that it’s about to release the next version of its Kindle ebook reader. The date and place also coincides with O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference, an ebook industry event that will give Amazon a further platform for [...]

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UK book chain Waterstones introduced Sony’s ebook reader to the UK market four months ago. It’s just released its first set of sales figures which show that it has sold 30,000 of the £224 Readers along with 75,000 ebook downloads. “We are very pleased with sales so far,” says a Waterstone representative. Story in the [...]

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Apple’s strategy with its iPod and iTunes store has served as a model for the Kindle and other ebook makers. So this announcement from Apple to drop DRM protection from its entire catalogue of online music marks a significant change and is likely to be watched with interest in the ebook market. The change was [...]

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This announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show from US mobile network Verizon is good news for ebooks. Verizon expects to use its network as early as 2009 for wireless downloads of ebooks and newspapers and is actively encouraging manufacturers of ebook readers to get their gadgets certified for connection to the Verizon network. According to [...]

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The latest reader from iRex, on sale in the US from 2 January 2009, takes the biggest-is-best route and features an almost-A4 size display with touchscreen functionality. As you can see from the Kindle comparison, it offers plenty of space and still weighs in at a modest 550 grams. At this price, you can get [...]

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