The Kindle Cloud Reader has been a viable browser based reading solution since 2011. You can read ebooks via all major internet browsers for desktop, mobile and tablets. Many people read comics, graphic novels, and ebooks when they are at work or school, since many organizations … | Continue reading
Amazon has just deleted all of the Kindle Active Content apps and games from their online store. This was a system where developers would write software that would work on an E INK screen. Some were free and others cost a few dollars. It originally launched in 2010 and every Kind … | Continue reading
Amazon Fire tablets have a very low price point and every year, new devices are issued. The Fire HD 7 and Fire HD 8 are very popular and all have been refreshed. There is a new way you can install Google Play and many of the best Google apps on your Fire HD, without having to go … | Continue reading
The Hisense A5 PRO CC features a single screen E INK color display with a very fast refresh rate. It is capable of 4096 colors and has a front-lit display to read in the dark. Underneath the hood is a Unisoc T610 processor (2 x 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex A75 + 6 x 1.8 GHZ ARM Cortex-A55) … | Continue reading
The Authors Guild has accused Google of promoting ebook piracy in their search engine results and paid services such as Adwords. Piracy is rewarded with millions of dollars in revenue from the Adsense program. The US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property is looki … | Continue reading
Hisense has just unveiled their first color e-paper smartphone that utilizes the new Just Print technology that the upcoming Pocketbook Color and Onyx Boox Color are using. The new Hisense phone is a budget device and it will be joining the Hisense A5 Pro, which has a B&W screen … | Continue reading
Barnes and Noble has shuttered over 500 of their 600 bookstores in the United States and the bookseller has announced they are no longer going to be ordering new magazines and will cease carrying them altogether. “It will probably be a bigger deal for smaller publishers who count … | Continue reading
There are a handful of color e-readers that have been announced and more will be released over the course of the year and many people are confused on exactly what the underlying technology is. There are terms batted around such as Color E INK, Kaleido, Just Print Color and JustPr … | Continue reading
Good e-Reader has exclusively learned that the Kobo Nia is a new device that is going to be coming out soon. I believe the Nia is going to either replace the Kobo Aura or Kobo Clara HD. This e-reader should be available in the next month or two. Netronix has filed an FCC applica … | Continue reading
This year the big trend in the e-reader industry is color E INK. There are a few devices that are already available and everybody is working on a color device to be released later this year. In 2020 you can expect a big new product by Kobo, that is unlike anything they have relea … | Continue reading
The UK has just passed a resolution that will eliminate all VAT on ebooks and digital newspapers on December 1st 2020. The old 20% tax on these types of content will be completely abolished, but for some reason audiobooks will still be charged the old tax rate. Physical books and … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago Amazon released a new firmware update that would introduce a slew of new features in the coming weeks. It looks like this file is causing problems for some people who have older Kindles. The library view and home screen have disappeared, the only way to fix … | Continue reading
The Audie Awards put the spotlight of the best audiobooks of the past year and it gives listeners a ton of recommendations if they are looking to discover something new. The Audie Awards recognize outstanding achievement from the authors, narrators, publishers, and producers of t … | Continue reading
Kobo is having some problems with their website and all of their mobile apps for iOS and Android are not working. The company has been experiencing downtime for the majority of the day and on the weekend they have a skeleton staff at the office so it is likely everything will con … | Continue reading
There is a growing number of people who simply aren't reading books anymore. There are no set reasons why this occurs, some are forced to read books in English class and simply don't read anymore. Others don't read books, but read news articles and blog posts online, but not book … | Continue reading
Good e-Reader continues to chronicle the best ebooks that you should seriously take a look at. There are a ton of great titles that are coming out, all month long. We are putting the spotlight on a small section of the books we think will sell very well on all of the major online … | Continue reading
Marvel and Dreamscape Media announced a deal last year that would turn many of their most popular graphic novels into audiobooks. Over 35 different titles have been converted over into audio and another 10 are planned for 2020. Titles that are currently available include X-Men: D … | Continue reading
There are numerous entrants to smartphones that have e-paper displays that will be released sometime in 2020. The first E Ink enabled smartphone came out in 2012. This was the original YotaPhone and it featured a full color display on the main screen and an e Ink one on the back. … | Continue reading
The e-reader industry is going to experience a paradigm shift of e-paper technology that will prompt everyone to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Color e-paper will finally be released in a series of new products in the Fall of 2020. Right now e-notes or digital note taking de … | Continue reading
The Amazon Kindle line of e-readers are in a good place. They have the Kindle Basic model with a front-lit display and a new E INK Carta screen. The Paperwhite 4 is now waterproof and the Oasis 3 has a new color temperature system to help mute the bright white screen, when readin … | Continue reading
Good e-Reader exclusively learned a couple of weeks ago that E Ink has developed a new kind of color e-paper that will be available in digital note taking devices sometime in 2020. It will be able to display around 5,000 colors and give users the ability to draw and take notes in … | Continue reading
Good e-Reader has heard from the upstream supply chain a couple of months ago that there was going to be a Remarkable 2 developed. It happened quicker than I originally thought. The product has completed mass production and is ready to be released sometime in the next few weeks, … | Continue reading
E Ink and Wacom have just unveiled a new breed of color e-paper. It does not have a name yet, but the two sides are going to market this new technology to other major players in the game. Wacom has disclosed to Good e-Reader at Connected Ink 2019 about the new technology and it … | Continue reading
Public libraries in the United States, who have a audiobook and ebook collection, have to deal with all of the big five publishers. Each publisher has different terms and conditions, as well as pricing. This can create headaches for collection managers. Some books can 1200% more … | Continue reading
A delegation of state librarians met with Macmillan CEO John Sargent last week and the publisher reiterated their claims that new ebooks in the library are hurting their sales. Macmillan has concerns that ebook sales are rising in public libraries but declining with consumers. S … | Continue reading
The Kingrow K1 is the first E Ink driven smartphone with modern specs. It has a single e-paper panel as the main screen that gives you around three weeks of battery life. Good e-Reader now has the final production model in our hands and would like to offer you a full unboxing vid … | Continue reading
There are a myriad of lawsuits currently transpiring and could decide the fate of many digital publishing initiatives. The first is a bloody affair between Barnes and Noble and former Demos Parneros who was fired for different reasons, depending on who you talk to. The official r … | Continue reading
Self-publishing grew by a rate of 40% in 2018 and it will not slow down anytime soon. The combined total of self-published print books and ebooks with registered ISBNs grew from almost 1.2 million in 2017 to more than 1.6 million in 2018. Digital books accounted for 8% of all sel … | Continue reading
The Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) announced 12 companies with products using the USI 1.0 Specification today. USI 1.0 is the first open standard active stylus protocol on the market and should jumpstart stylus technology. USI 1.0 replaces proprietary approaches with a single … | Continue reading
Hisense has just unveiled new smartphone that has a single screen E Ink Carta HD that is 5.8 inches. You will be able to adjust the screen brightness with the built in front-lit system, but it does not have amber LED lights. Underneath the hood is a Qualcomm 660 Octa-core process … | Continue reading
Onyx Boox is going to be releasing the MAX 3 in the next few days. It will have Android 9 and be powered by a Qualcomm quad core processor and will be able to connect up to 5G WIFI. This is going to likely be the best 13.3 inch e-reader to be released, ever. The vast majority of … | Continue reading
Major publishers have recently changed their ebook terms, en masse. Simon and Schuster changed their audiobook system from a perpetual model to a two year term. Hachette changed their perpetual model system last month and Penguin Random House did the same back in October. Last s … | Continue reading
The second generation Kindle Voyage 2 is looking likely to be released sometime in 2020. The company has been developing various prototypes for the past two years and many of the elements that were developed exclusively for this model, bled into other products. The amber light di … | Continue reading
When you think of the name E Ink, you often first consider e-readers as being the poster child. Their e-paper technology powers every single modern ebook reader on the market. The company is also very bullish on electronic shelf labels, they recently invested millions into SES-im … | Continue reading
Ebook piracy is increasing every single year. $300 million was lost in author income due to pirated book sales in the United States last year. This figure fluctuates year to year, in 2017 Nielsen consumer survey covering ebook piracy found $315 million in US book sales was lost a … | Continue reading
Books entering the public domain are not easy to figure out. This year most books from 1923 entered the public domain with, more to follow every year. But there's another source of public domain works: until the 1976 Copyright Act, US works were not copyrighted unless they were r … | Continue reading
There are a number of different stylus on the market. Most of them are included in the purchase of your e-reader. Most companies use a plastic stylus with plastic nib, these are the most cost effective stylus on the market. They get the job done, but do not offer advanced feature … | Continue reading
One of the great pitfalls of buying ebooks is that there is no true sense of ownership. This is quite evident when Microsoft decided to close their digital bookstore last month and customers will be losing all access to everything they purchased and free books sometime in July. … | Continue reading
Elderly people used to drive book sales and often was the largest demographic to enjoy reading a good book. This is not the case anymore, they are now watching tv and are streaming cat videos. On any given day in 2018, the average American spent a little more than 15 minutes read … | Continue reading
DeepZen is a voice synthesizer project that utilizes artificial intelligence algorithms from IBM’s Power A.I. and Watson technologies. DeepZen has developed text-to-speech tools that not only sound human at first listen, but can also pick up on the emotional cues needed for readi … | Continue reading
The EE Write E-Pad is the first commercial e-reader product from a relatively new company based in China, called Wisky. They have been crowdfunding on Kickstarter and then Indiegogo for the past five months and have raised over $800,000. They are billing it as an E Ink Android ta … | Continue reading
Kindle today released a global survey, conducted by Kelton Global in 13 countries, that shows the impact reading has on our happiness has no borders. Around the globe, readers find the timeless activity boosts happiness, fosters communication and improves our relationships â in … | Continue reading
Whenever international or domestic travelers enter the USA, the TSA can gain access to your e-reader, smartphone, tablet or laptop, without a warrant. This might come to an end due to new legislation by California congressional Rep. Ted Lieu introduced a new bill, along with simi … | Continue reading
Barnes and Noble has just announced the Nook Glowlight Plus, which is the booksellers first large screen e-reader. This 7.8 inch device is exclusively available in stores only starting Monday, May 27, and online starting Wednesday, May 29, for just $199.99 The Nook Glowlight Plus … | Continue reading
Clearink has just debuted Clearink 2.0 e-paper technology at SID Display Week 2019. We have an agent there that just provided a video to give us clearer context on their new 9.7 inch reflective displays with front light, 1:16 contrast ratio, 4096 colors, 19.5% NTSC color gamut, 3 … | Continue reading
E Ink has just announced new technology called JustTint, which uses variable transmissive films. It was invented for applications across automotive, architectural, and real estate industries. Think tinted sunroofs, privacy glass and skylights â enabling partial or entire panes … | Continue reading
The Xiaomi e-Reader is complete and it should be announced sometime next week. This new device is likely going to feature a 7.8 inch screen and would be a dedicated ebook reader. It would be competing against a number of e-reader brands in China, such as Boyue. There has been lit … | Continue reading