The third generation Kindle has just been announced, due for US and UK delivery 27 August. What’s interesting is there will be two variations of the new Kindle – a US$189 3G version like the present model, and a US$139 WiFi-only model. The new WiFi model will hopefully remove any final impediments to Amazon shipping [...]

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As Apple sells its three millionth iPad, a round of double-digit price cuts has hit most major ebook readers this week. Amazon dropped the price of its Kindle almost 30% to US$189 from US$259. This is less than half the original US$399 price tag when it was launched two and a half years ago. Amazon’s [...]

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Amazon has just split its ebook top 100 list into a Free and a Paid list, giving much more useful insight into what people are buying and reading digitally. To me, the most interesting thing is it shows is that the classics — the traditional fare of free reading — have some serious competition from new [...]

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Kobo has just posted this video (see below) of its near-complete ebook reading app for Apple’s iPad. Kobo on iPad from Kobo on Vimeo. According to the Kobo blog, they’ve been hard at work on this since the iPad was announced two months ago. What was intended to be a slight tweaking of their iPhone [...]

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Here’s the story I wrote for this week’s National Business Review, a round up of the interesting times we’re living in and my pick of the winners and losers — so far. When Apple launched its long-rumoured iPad tablet computer late last month, it fired a major salvo in the battle for control of media [...]

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