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  2010: Year of the E-reader

• APP OF THE DAY: Kindle

  By Patrick Budmar | 19 April, 2012 11:09

  You may have seen people with a Kindle device reading their favourite books at a café or on a train, but you can do can do the same with the Kindle app on your smartphone.

• People can't do without their iPad: element14

  By Hafizah Osman | 22 February, 2012 12:11

  It's official. We love the iPad.

• yARN: Nintendo 3DS vs. Apple iPad 2: who will win the fight for consumer $s?

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 30 March, 2011 16:01

  It’s been a big month for handheld devices. Apple released its iPad 2 to the world, and, despite being an incremental update on the iPad we already have, the device attracted legions of fans to line up for hours to get their hands on it.

• Kindle first impressions: It's all good

  By Liane Cassavoy | 30 July, 2010 07:56

  Well, now we know why Amazon's stock of Kindle 2 e-readers evaporated so quickly. Just hours after I wrote about the devices being out of stock, Amazon announced a new model of its popular e-reader. The device, called simply the Kindle, is available for pre-order now and will ship August 27. While most of us will have to wait a month to get our hands on the new gadget, a few lucky bloggers and technology reporters already got a chance to check it out. So far, they seem to like it...a lot. In fact, in reading many of the reports about the new Kindle, I found it difficult to find anything they didn't like about it.

• Amazon's new Kindle rachets up e-reader price battle

  By Martyn Williams | 29 July, 2010 23:18

  Amazon.com's announcement late Wednesday that it will launch a new version of its Kindle e-book reader in August could further stoke a price battle between major players in the e-reader market.

• Amazon unveils sleek new Kindle

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 29 July, 2010 12:01

  Amazon took it's time with its latest Kindle-and that time has paid off in spades.

• Amazon raises the specs, cuts the price on latest Kindle DX

  By Martyn Williams | 01 July, 2010 15:41

  Amazon.com is keeping up the pressure on competitors in the electronic book market and will launch on July 7 a new version of its Kindle DX that features a better screen and costs US$110 less than the current model.

• Price war! Amazon drops Kindle to $189, down from $259

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 22 June, 2010 08:30

  Wasting little time in responding to Barnes & Noble's new lower prices for its Nook e-readers, Amazon today slashed the cost of its Kindle device to $189, the company announced. The new price is $70 off the Kindle's previous $259 list, and $10 less than a comparably equipped Nook.

• Why e-Readers Are a Worthy Business Investment

  By PC World Staff | 08 July, 2010 07:23

  A Silicon Valley product development consulting firm called the Nielsen Norman Group (not to be confused with the Nielsen ratings company) published a study last week comparing reading performance with a book to reading with an e-reader. The results--which are suspect because there were only 24 people in the test group--find that users of the Kindle 2 and iPad read 10.7 percent and 6.2 percent slower, respectively, than on paper or with books.

• iPad vs. Kindle: Can Amazon keep its e-book edge?

  By Daniel Ionescu | 24 March, 2010 07:16

  Apple's iPad goes on sale April 3 in the US triggering a challenge by Amazon to keep customers interested in buying its Kindle e-book reader and e-books.

• Apple iPad vs Kindle DX: Which is better for education?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 02 February, 2010 01:31

  If the iPad doesn't succeed as a consumer electronics device--its initial target market--it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.

• Color E-readers a hit at book fair, to be sold like handsets

  By Dan Nystedt | 01 February, 2010 21:33

  Taiwanese e-reader makers jockeyed to show off new technologies at the Taipei International Book Exhibition over the weekend and said the emerging model for the devices is to sell them as part of a content bundle.

• Privacy guide for Kindle, other E-Book readers

  By Erik Larkin | 23 December, 2009 06:54

  If you're concerned about the privacy implications of reading digital books, take a look at a nice guide put up yesterday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• How the Amazon Kindle may evolve in 2010

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 30 December, 2009 01:38

  It appears the holiday season was a very, very good one for e-reader sales. According to Amazon, the Kindle was the "most-gifted product" in the company's history. And for the first time ever, the online retailer's customers bought more Kindle e-books than physical books on Christmas day.

• Amazon's Kindle for PC app: 10 things to know

  By JR Raphael | 23 October, 2009 09:12

  Amazon's extending its electronic bookstore onto your desktop. The company announced plans for a Kindle for PC desktop application at Microsoft's Windows 7 launch event Thursday.

• Microsoft: No e-Readers for us, thanks

  By JR Raphael | 09 October, 2009 09:21

  All of Silicon Valley may be Cupertino dreamin' of Kindles and other tantalizing tablets, but Microsoft says it wants nothing to do with the ever-expanding electronic reader market.