04:00 PM by Geppetto in E-Book General | News

German Hanvon website (not the English one: how strange) is showing a new ereader I've never heard of before: WISEreader B630

http://www.hanvon-deutschland.de/htm...ader_b630.html

looks like a 6" N520, in fact.

I wonder how many different models (for different markets) they made.

03:58 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

The UK Kindle ebook store is now open for business. Amazon are also offering to transfer UK customer's Kindle store accounts from Amazon.com to Amazon.co.uk.

I've just done clicked the button to start this process. Hopefully it will be painless. The UK store has prices in £, not $.

Most prices seem to be a simple conversion from $ to £, with an exchange rate of about $1.55:£1. The current rate shown at xe.com is $1.58:£1, so it's not too bad at all.

It will be interesting to see how frequently Amazon update the UK price as the exchange rate changes.

Some UK prices are cheaper — as sometimes a cheaper paper version is available in the UK which isn't available in the US.

e.g. The Penguin Classics version of Kidnapped is $6.06 is the US Kindle store (including the 17.5% VAT for UK customers) but is only £1.89 in the UK Kindle store.

And no doubt some UK prices are higher.

03:52 PM by M_Agnum in E-Book General | News

Amazon is now offering two word puzzle games for Kindle--Every Word and Shuffled Row. They are free, so we encourage you to check them out.

"If you like word scrambles then Every Word is the game for you. Test your vocabulary as you try to find as many words from the scrambled letters in this fun and fast-paced word game."

"In Shuffled Row see how many words you can make from 60 lettered tiles. The tiles are added to your row one at a time so you'll constantly be working with a new set of letters. After you submit a word, the letters you used will be removed and new ones will be added. Increase your score by using less common letters. Create longer words and increase your score even more."

via http://www.kindlepost.com/2010/08/fr...on-kindle.html

I just downloaded them and am going to give them a test run.

03:46 PM by mbovenka in E-Book General | News

Irex gets a new lease on life as 'IRX Innovations', leaves the consumer market to others (Dutch): Webwereld

11:40 AM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

The NookStudy website was updated sometime this morning. All sections (including the FAQ and help) are now live. You can also download NookStudy here.

I've already tried it, and I am impressed. It still has a few rough edges, but it is one of the best desktop reading apps on the market. I think it's already better than Kindle4PC.

I posted an early review over on The Digital Reader blog.

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

It's time again for our roundup on all the stuff we posted on our frontpage this past week.

E-Book General - News

• New Kindle with WiFi announced

10:19 PM by DianaB in E-Book General | News

The new Kindle features a screen with increased gray-scale contrast, a battery that lasts for a month, and a slightly smaller size. It will come in two flavors: one with Wi-Fi and 3G Internet connections selling for $189, the other with Wi-Fi only for $139.

Amazon will begin taking orders Thursday and the new models will begin shipping Aug. 27 to customers in 140 countries.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...036454208.html

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Is it really Sunday again? Hoorah! Time to dig in to another digest of MobileRead delectables

E-Book General - News

• Kindle Books Outsell Hardcovers
• Sharp looking to push oddball XMDF format on new LCD readers
• Barnes & Noble launches Nook for Android

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• August 2010 Book Club Nominations
• August 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• Winner of the Win an iPad Survey
• Mobileread hits 1 million posts. Thank you!