e-readers

Years ago I called for a black and white computer, and that strange desire still lives within me today. While no one has yet taken me up on this amazing idea, the monochrome devices that do exist have

I have to say, I really like e-paper. And it's come a long way since the crude early Kindles — nowadays you have e-readers that are as high-resolution as the best phones and iPads. And they're set t

Anyone who thinks paper books are dead has never been in a Barcelona bookshop the day before Sant Jordi. The Patron Saint festival is Catalunya's equivalent of Valentine's day. But as well as giving l

Reflective displays like those found on e-readers are great for black-and-white text, but color has yet to make a compelling play on them. That may change with the serendipitous discovery of a full-co

The Canadian company has never been afraid to take risks with the often-boring world of e-readers, and for that reason alone it is a welcoming presence. Without Kobo pushing the boundaries of screen s

E Ink, maker of the ePaper displays found in many e-readers (maddening to have three different e prefixes in one sentence, but it's unavoidable), announced a brand new type of reflective display that

True to earlier reports, Amazon’s Kindle Oasis is the smallest and lightest Kindle yet and comes with a handle for gripping. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos teased an “all-new, top of the line&#

E-readers may not be the most exciting space in tech these days, but some of us still find a place for them in our lives — and it is we happy few whom Jeff Bezos announced, with enthusiasm palpable,

Amazon is now preparing a new Kindle Paperwhite for release in early Q2 of next year, TechCrunch has learned. The marquee feature of the new device is a high-resolution 300 ppi screen that will bring

Looks like things at Barnes & Noble will get a bit worse before they have a chance of getting better. The bookseller has just <a target="_blank" href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2013070

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.kobo.com">Kobo</a>, the Canadian e-reader, tablet and e-book company <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/rakuten-acquires-e-reading-platform-kobo-for-315-mil

We're still waiting to hear from specific companies like Amazon with their latest (non-)numbers on how <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/27/more-on-amazons-kindle-non-numbers-sales-more-than-dou

Take that, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aegindia.org/2012/09/amazon-kindle-stores-japan-tackle-rakutens-kobo-touch-reader-october/213816.html">Rakuten</a>! Amazon continues to extend its reach

Kobo announced today via its company blog that the Kobo Glo and Kobo Mini e-readers are now on sale at Canadian retailers Indigo, Future Shop and Best Buy, and in the U.K. at WHSmith. The $80 Mini and

More developments on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bn.com">Barnes & Noble's</a> plans to launch its Nook devices in the UK, the first market outside of the U.S. to see the e-readers and tabl

Living in Seattle, you tend to find yourself in the company of tech people all the time. With Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Google, and a dozen other major companies established in the area, it's never a

I have a confession to make: despite having reviewed a few e-readers, and having written dozens of articles about them, I've never really used one. I mean, I've used them enough to know a good one fro

Random House, the world's largest publisher of the kinds of books you and I read, <a href="http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/03/ebooks/librarians-feel-sticker-shock-as-price-for-random-house-ebooks-

As you probably know, bistable or passive displays like the E-Ink ones in <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/e-readers/">e-readers</a> focus on battery life and readability rather than color and inte

Barnes & Noble may be challenging Amazon's dominance of the e-book world, but the Kindle sales are still growing faster than the Nook's — at least if you connect the dots between some of the num