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Bricks-and-Mortar Is an eBook Advantage for Barnes & Noble
Bricks-and-Mortar Is an eBook Advantage for Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble will sell the Que proReader at its stores and website starting next year, for an as-yet unknown price. (Photo courtesy of Plastic Logic) Barnes & Noble only announced its nook e-book reader last week, and already the company has signed a deal with a potential ...
Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Nook To Go In All Stores
paidcontent.org — Its 700-plus U.S. stores should give Barnes & Noble an edge in the contest for e-reader dollars but many won’t be selling the actual Nook on site. Instead, I was told as a customer, the booksellers will order a device for in-store customers ... (more) Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Nook To Go In All Stores
Kindle software coming to Mac OS X
Kindle software coming to Mac OS X
tuaw.com — Fast Company is reporting that there is a Kindle reader application coming for the Mac. At the Windows 7 launch this week, Microsoft said there is a Windows version of the e-reader on the way, prompting a promise from Amazon that a Mac version was ... (more) Kindle software coming to Mac OS X
Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service
aws.typepad.com — We are always looking for ways to make it faster, simpler, and more fun to develop applications of all types. Every hour that you don't spend fiddling with hardware, tracing cables, installing operating systems or managing databases is an hour... (more) Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database ...
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Que e-reader from Plastic Logic to go on sale at B&N—and allow full-text browsing of e-books when you visit local stores
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — The Que e-reader from Plastic Logic—not just Barnes and Noble’s own Nook—will go on sale at B&N for those who want a large shatter-proof E Ink-based screen. See Plastic Logic news release, Wired News, CNet and Google roundup. Best guess is that the price could be at least $400, or far more than the $259 Nook. As reported by Wired: “The Que proReader will handle eBooks in the PDF, ePub, eReader, and eReader DRM formats; magazines and newspapers in the GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TXT formats; and ...

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