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by Richard Devine
Nov 12, 2011
Hot on the heels of Barnes and Nobles' latest update to the Nook for Android app, Google have followed suit with a little update to their own Google Books app.
The changelog touts the abi...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 06, 2011
Until now, only our friends across the pond have been able to purchase content from Google Books. That changes today as the service finally arrives in the UK.
The usual plethora of free public doma...
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by Jared DiPane
Sep 30, 2011
Now that a couple days have passed, and you have had ample time to read about the Amazon Kindle Fire, talk it over with all your "knowledgeable" friends, and make a decision, we are dying ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 02, 2011
We've been patiently sitting back and watching the rumors surrounding Amazon's supposed Android tablet, because, frankly, that's all they've been. Rumor and conjecture. But TechCrunch's MG Siegle...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 15, 2011
Astraware has released their new Word Games application, and are offering it exclusively on the Barnes & Noble store. It's a suite of five word games, that share a 100,000 word dictionary.&...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 23, 2011
Barnes and Noble, in a press release issued today, announced it has doubled the number of apps available to users in the Nook app catalog. Popular cross-platforms applications like Evernote, See...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 06, 2011
Viewsonic has announced the release of their budget friendly 7 inch ViewBook 730 Android tablet today. While their tagline of "changing the face of tablets" may be stretching things a ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 01, 2011
Barnes & Noble's new Nook is smaller, lighter, and has decidedly more geeky inside -- and it's now shipping. For $139, you can get now get the diminutive e-reader that's powered by Android 2...
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by Sean Brunett
May 16, 2011
Barnes & Noble announced today that its recently launched Nook App Store for the Nook Color has already reached 1 million downloads. The achievement only took three weeks after Nook Color users re...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 12, 2011
Barnes and Noble have updated the Nook app for Android, giving high resolution devices (read: tablets) support for magazines as well as a few bug fixes for the HTC Thunderbolt and Android 3.x (Honeyco...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2011
The Barnes & Noble Nook Color is a great little $250 e-reader to turn into a decent little Android tablet. But maybe you went just a little too far and borked it. Or maybe you just want to g...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 24, 2011
Looks like the Android Market got what some might refer to as a big upgrade, depending on your interest level in books. In what is surely a tie in to the Google Books eReader app, the Android Market n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2011
We've read enough books on the Samsung Galaxy Tab to say that e-reading's a breeze on Android tablets. But that hasn't stopped Amazon from wanting to improve its Kindle app, and today it announced it...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 30, 2010
Barnes & Noble today announced that its Android-based Nook line of e-readers is "the company's biggest bestseller ever in its nearly 40-year history." That's, like, EVER. It a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 14, 2010
Good news for those of you looking longingly at your Barnes & Noble NookColor and wishing that the Android-based e-reader could one day legitimately run Android apps. An update to Android 2.2...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 03, 2010
The Barnes & Noble Nook Color, an eReader that moonlights as a pretty nice Android tablet, now has its own Android SDK add-on. This means developers have access to code snippets, android deb...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 30, 2010
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is set to launch their own ebook store, Google Editions by the end of the month. The idea has been kicked around since May 2010 and was initially...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 23, 2010
We've been talking about the Notion Ink Adam for a good while now, and finally we have some news about pricing and release dates. In case you haven't been keeping tabs on this one, the Adam is a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 09, 2010
In case we needed a visual demonstration of irony, HP's new eReader (dubbed the Zeen) will be running the Android OS. While most details are unknown until the December 31 lifting of the FCC conf...
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by Kyle Gibb
Jul 22, 2010
Barnes & Noble has released the Android version of its Nook e-book reader (an Android-based device, natch) onto the Market. The app is similar to functionality to Amazon's Kindle, and comes...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2010
We brought you a preview of the Amazon Kindle app for Android a month ago at Google IO, and now it's available for all in the Android Market. The app is free (you must be running Android 1.6 or highe...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 21, 2010
If you've been looking to get into the Android-based e-reader game but haven't been to crazy about the price, you're starting to run out of excuses. The Barnes & Noble Nook line just got a re...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
The Android Amazon Kindle app: Coming this summer. The Android Amazon Kindle hands-on video: Coming right now, after the break. It's not a bad little app. Download and read ebooks righ...
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by Casey Chan
May 18, 2010
Amazon just announced that an Android Kindle application will be available this summer. The Kindle app (which is currently available for the iPhone & Blackberry) gives users access to over 5...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2010
Barnes & Noble's Nook Android-powered e-reader just got itself another update. Here's what's new in version 1.3: Read in Store: Just like it sounds, it gives you access to entire b...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 13, 2010
The Barnes & Noble Nook, the Android powered e-reader soon will be hitting a bigger audience. Barnes & Noble and Best Buy just announced a partnership that'll allow Best Buy to sell the ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 09, 2010
We'd love to give you guys good news about the Android-powered Spring Design Alex e-reader but sadly that's not the case. It's not entirely bad news so that's something to hang your hat on (kind of). ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 08, 2010
If you're interested in unique, Android-powered e-readers, the Entourage Edge is a great place to start. It's a dualbook meaning it has an e-ink screen on one side and a LCD on the other. We briefly s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 05, 2010
Looks like the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader's getting an update right ... about ... now! Gizmodo got slipped an internal memo that details the Version 1.2 upgrade:Improved in-store WiFi and "...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 08, 2010
If you didn't notice our excitement in the Spring Design Alex E-Book Reader yet, you will now. Spring Design just announced that they'll be partnering with the Borders' eBook store for their An...
