Nook Vs. Kindle Vs. Sony Reader
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How the E-Readers Measure Up
The newly released Barnes & Noble Nook, like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader, lets you carry hundreds of digitized books in a package that weighs less than a pound. The future is in digital books. During this past Christmas Day customers bought more electronic books than hard-copy books on Internet retail giant Amazon.com
. The average electronic book costs $6 less than a hardcover, reports publishing research firm Bowker. So, if you buy two a month, you can recoup the $250 to $300 cost of an e-reader in two years. This will save you money. If you download free books from Google's public-domain collection the payoff is even faster.
Which of the three is most worthy of your hard-earned cash? MONEY magazine tested them to help you pick one you won't be able to put down. Below are the results.
. The average electronic book costs $6 less than a hardcover, reports publishing research firm Bowker. So, if you buy two a month, you can recoup the $250 to $300 cost of an e-reader in two years. This will save you money. If you download free books from Google's public-domain collection the payoff is even faster.Which of the three is most worthy of your hard-earned cash? MONEY magazine tested them to help you pick one you won't be able to put down. Below are the results.
Barnes & Noble Nook - MONEY magazine's "Top Pick"
What's available at the e-store:
1 million e-books
20 newspapers
20 magazines
Memory/capacity: 2GB / 1,500 books
Wireless download? Yes
Battery life:
Two days with wireless on
10 days with wireless off
Size 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
Nook Reviews
- Copy and Paste Issue 'Nook-ifies' War and Peace Ebook
- By David Murphy In a bit of news from the you-can't-be-serious department, Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin reports that a version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace for Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader comes with a rather unfortunate series of typos.
- Barnes & Noble Announces The Awakening from LJ Smith's The Vampire Diaries ...
- From June 2 through June 15, Barnes & Noble's NOOK Bookstore will offer The Awakening, from the best selling The Vampire Diaries series, for only 99 cents. The Awakening centers on a beautiful and popular high school student, Elena Gilbert, ...
- E-books rewrite the rules for book industry
- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) made a $605 million investment in Barnes & Noble in late April ( read more here ). The new venture separated the college bookstore and Nook businesses from the main consumer-bookstore business. The move followed weeks of ...
- Get a Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet for $149
- Today, Barnes & Noble (via eBay) is offering the refurbished Nook Tablet for $149 shipped. Just to clarify, that's the Nook Tablet, not the older Nook Color -- which is what you usually see selling at this price. Update: Yikes!
eReaders on eBAY
Amazon Kindle
The reading screen on this second-generation Amazon Kindle is equivalent to the Nook's, but navigating is complex with all the buttons. Amazon offers a fine selection of blogs and periodicals. Amazon often has the best prices on books, however, it provides fewer titles than Barnes & Noble. In addition, you can't access as many free books as on the Nook because the Kindle doesn't support the ePub format.What's available at the e-store:
380,000 e-books
69 newspapers
40 magazines
7,000-plus blogs
Memory/capacity: 2GB / 1,500 books
Wireless download? Yes
Battery life:
Seven days with wireless on
14 days with wireless off
Size 8.0 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
Kindle Reviews
- E-books rewrite the rules for book industry
- By Jeremy Greenfield NEW YORK (MarketWatch) ? Just five years after Amazon introduced the Kindle e-reader and created a market for e-books virtually overnight, digital publishing is a hot topic and the book industry has never been more exciting for ...
- E Ink hunting for the next big thing
- By Michael B. Farrell E Ink Corp. invented a display screen that was easy on the eyes, and pioneered the worldwide boom in electronic reading devices like the Kindle from Amazon.com Inc.. But there's another boom in town, and the 15-year-old Cambridge ...
- Publish to Amazon Kindle with QuarkXPress 9.3
- Quark announced today the availability of a new, free update to QuarkXPress 9 that allows designers to export digital content directly to the Amazon Kindle format. The Kindle is the world's bestselling e-reader that gives users access to over a million ...
- 'Read the next chapter… after a short commercial break'
- So while it was a surprise to many, it was perhaps inevitable that last week Waterstones announced a partnership with the "ruthless devil" Amazon to sell Kindles on the high street. Waterstones will get a cut of sales, new point-of-sale displays and ...
Sony Reader Touch Edition
What's available at the e-store:
200,000 e-books
18 blogs
Memory/capacity: 512MB / 350 books
Wireless download? No
Battery life: Up to two weeks
Size : 6.9 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
Sony Reader Reviews
- Author signings are going digital
- BY KARA YORIO Lovers of e-readers ? be it a Kindle, iPad, Sony Reader or NOOK ? have a singular lament when a favorite author comes to town: If only there were a way to get a signature on a digital device. Kindlegraph lets readers write to authors for ...
- Books Under Glass: The Many Faces of E-Readers
- If you don't want to be beholden to either big e-book seller, you can also give Sony's Reader a look. An E Ink device with Wi-Fi built-in, this reader starts at $130 and comes in white, red and black. It supports most major book formats as well as PDFs ...
- Sony falls below 1000 yen for first time since 1980
- TOKYO ? Sony shares tumbled below 1000 yen for the first time since 1980 as the Tokyo stock market plunged early Monday following a dismal performance from Wall Street and amid global economic concerns. The entertainment and electronics giant dropped ...
- E-books rewrite the rules for book industry
- By Jeremy Greenfield NEW YORK (MarketWatch) ? Just five years after Amazon introduced the Kindle e-reader and created a market for e-books virtually overnight, digital publishing is a hot topic and the book industry has never been more exciting for ...
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