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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While book lovers console each other with anecdotes about how hard it is to beat the experience of a real book, it seems that they’re already telling researchers a different story. A new usability study by leading usability researcher Jakob Nielsen lined up the printed book against digital editions on the Kindle, iPad and PC. [...]

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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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ZDNet’s Jason Perlow has done a thorough job lining up the various e-reading apps available for the iPad and iPhone. His review covers: Apple’s iBooks Amazon Kindle for iPad Barnes and Noble eReader Kobo Reader (which is also the Borders eReader and will soon be the Whitcoulls eReader for the iPad) Ibis Reader (this is [...]

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Since the announcement of the iPad, magazine publishers have been scrambling to turn their magazines digital. But there’s one problem: unlike books, which have seen a surge in digital sales,  the magazine industry has no standard format that publishers, e-reading device manufacturers and consumers can rally around. That looks set to change as an influential [...]

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