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1-800-The Book —Oh My
9/2/2010
1-800-The Book—that’s the number you have to call when you have a customer service question for your Barnes & Noble nook. Or at least that’s what I had to do when my son’s nook crashed and burned last month. Let me start off by saying I love the nook. This is not a commentary that the nook is a bad little ereader, because it’s not. In fact, in our family we own two of them. We also own a Sony Reader Pocket Edition and an iPad.


Look Out: Falling Prices on Ereaders
9/1/2010
As we head into autumn, the connected devices market is seeing steady drops in pricing. Just this week, Borders, www.borders.com, announced price cuts for the Kobo and Aluratek ereaders, and Roku, www.roku.com, dropped the prices for its video set-top boxes. Amazon.com also recently cut the price of the Kindle, ushering in an ereader price war that shows no signs of slowing down.


Connected Devices’ Summer Surge
8/27/2010
It has been an exciting summer in the connected-device world, and there is no doubt it will intensify as we near the 2010 holiday season. Just this month, we’ve seen hints of tantalizing tablets, new technology, location-based apps, hybrid devices, and promising patents. And just this week, a new ereader is off to a roaring start and one of America’s foremost retailers is rolling out a major overhaul of its consumer-electronics division.


Ereaders that Talk
8/25/2010
Now that we can read most any book anytime via an ereader download, it’s not surprising that listening to books wasn’t far behind. The upcoming Blio eReader Software is touting its ability to read almost any content to users in a natural-sounding voice.


Android Ebook Shops
8/10/2010
Millions of consumers have taken to the concept of reading books on their connected devices, such as tablets, ereaders, and smartphones. Publishers are taking notice and making content available in a digital format.


Ereader Update: The War Rages On
8/6/2010
It started with a slash—a price slash, that is—and just like that it seems ereaders are back in the news. This summer we have seen price wars, the launch of a new device, rumors of a coup from an unknown, and even a few ‘deaths’ in the ereader family. All of this followed by an announcement this week; is Barnes & Noble really up for grabs?


An Innovative Edge for Consumer Devices
2/5/2010
On this week’s live broadcast of the M2M Radio Show, listeners heard about the newest entry into the tablet/ereader space, the iPad from Apple, www.apple.com, Cupertino, Calif. Peggy Smedley, host of the M2M Radio Show, discussed Apple’s decision to choose AT&T’s, www.att.com, Dallas, Texas, cellular network to provide connectivity for the iPad, adding yet another popular connected device to AT&T’s arsenal.


Nook and QUE Take on Kindle
10/21/2009
This week, details emerged on two new ereaders set to enter the market in the coming months. nook, from Barnes and Noble, www.barnesandnoble.com, New York, N.Y., features lots of bells and whistles, while the QUE from Plastic Logic, www.plasticlogic.com, Mountain View, Calif., aims to serve the professional businessperson.
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