When you buy an Amazon Kindle book, a copy of your purchase is automatically stored in the cloud. This means even if you lost or damage your Kindle, your books are safely stored in Amazon’s server. However, if it gives you a peace of mind to see backup copies of your Kindle books on your [...]
Shortly after the launch of Google Books last year, WSJ analyst James McQuivey predicted that the digital publishing industry would soon move towards ad-supported eBooks: “…soon, we will no longer need to force the entire cost of a book on the buyer of the book, but instead can extract value from the reader of [...]
Trips to library may not become a thing of the past as some people envision, but eReaders like Sony and Nook have made library book borrowing easy, fast, and convenient. Borrowing books from a virtual library is a great way to access and read thousands of books for free. In recreating the traditional library experience, [...]
I know, The e-Reader market is a confusing one. It seems like everyday a new e-Reader is launched, a new eBook released and a new technology takes over the “old” one, which is actually only 6 months old. That’s why I’ve created a detailed list of ereaders, their supported software or applications, supported eBook formats, [...]
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Like Barnes & Noble and Sony, Amazon’s goal is twofold: to dominate the eReader market and to dominate the eBook market. If you think of it, both are actually intertwining strands of the same thread. To achieve the first, Amazon built a device that offers a reading and book shopping experience par none. If there’s [...]
Google today unveiled its long-rumored entry into the e-book sales world, not called Google Editions, as was previously speculated, but a more anonymous-sounding Google eBooks. The basic idea is to provide an entirely web-based e-book platform accessible from any device with a browser. The eBooks service, then, works in any Webkit-compatible browser. The reader itself [...]
The Sony eReader line now spans 6 models: the Sony PRS 300 (Pocket Edition), PRS 600 (Touch Edition), PRS 900 (Daily Edition), PRS 350 (Pocket Edition 2), PRS 650 (Touch Edition 2) and PRS 950 (Daily Edition 2). The Daily Edition models are the only Sony Readers that supports wireless downloads of books just like [...]
Creating a backup of eBooks on the Kindle involves different steps depending on whether or not you originally downloaded the items from Amazon or from another website. How to Backup Amazon Kindle Edition eBooks Amazon automatically keeps an online backup of all the eBooks you purchase from the Kindle Store. This means you don’t have [...]
Is their any way you can retrieve your Nook books if you lose or damage your Nook eReader or if you accidentally delete a book from your Nook? Some Nook owners believe they need to create a backup of all the books they purchase. However, that is not necessary for books downloaded from Barnes & [...]