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- Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business
- Amazon Kindle Fire Disassembled [Image]
- If Apple outs a $300 iPad, will you be able to resist?
If there were such a thing as a $300 iPad with no contract: perhaps one with as basic a set of specs as there could be, with no gigantic amount of storage, HD display, or mobile web, would you buy it? How about if that $300 iPad was the remaini…
- Kobo Touch eReader chosen as Editor’s Pick by Wired Magazine
Kobo Touch design was described as “handsome and comfortable”, its touch screen as “fastest and most responsive” and our user experience was evaluated as most “intuitive interface and easy to annot
- E‑book readers still choice for bookworms – The Boston Globe
Some tech gurus predicted that the tablet computer, with its versatility and color screen, would kill the standalone e‑book reader, with its focus on books and its black-and-white screen. But Consumer Reports’ latest ratings reveal that the e…
- Study – 63% of publishers to go digital in 2012, looking for providers | Learn to be one – http://abbrv.it/Webn
It seems an increasing number of publishers are turning to the opportunities offered by digital platforms as 63 per cent intend to publish an e‑book next year, recent figures have shown.
In a survey of 411 publishers by the Data Conversion Lab…
- Kno’s Textbooks Is Top Back-To-School iPad App With One Download Every 8 Seconds | TechCrunch
As students start going back to college, they are downloading Kno’s new Textbooks app for the iPad in droves. It is currently the No. 1 iPad education app, No. 2 grossing iPad app overall, and a top-25 free app (more popular than even the Kin…
- How to Take Screenshot with Amazon Kindle Keyboard
A useful feature to capture your Kindle Keyboard screen.
Steps:Press alt, shift and G on your keyboard simultaneously.
Screenshots taken are saved in GIF formats under the documents folder. - How to take screenshots on the Kindle Fire (Without Rooting)
If you want to take screenshots of the Kindle Fire, you still can. It’s a fairly involved process, but once it’s set up, taking screenshots is a breeze. You don’t even have to root your Kindle Fire to do it. Here’s how: