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Watch Out, Amazon — Barnes and Noble Unveils Their New Nook eBook October 21, 2009

Posted by Eli Blumenthal in : eBooks , 2comments

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The Barnes and Noble Nook eBook

We’ve all probably been to Barnes and Noble a couple of times over the past years– either by choice or for something for school reading. What if told you that soon those trips won’t be needed and you can have every book from there physical stores in your pocket? Interesting, yeah? Its true. Today, book giant Barnes and Noble have announced their entrance into the future for books with their new eBook called the Nook. This is ready to take on Amazon’s hit Kindle, and boy did Barnes and Noble do a great job with this device (case in point, look up at the pic– wow is right). And that top pic is only part of the story– read on to learn all about Barnes and Nobles new eBook and how they plan to continue to change books as we now know them.

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The Amazon Kindle 2 February 15, 2009

Posted by Eli Blumenthal in : Misc. , 2comments

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The Amazon Kindle 2

Some of you may have heard of Amazon’s digital book (called an e-book, and yes people do read books :) ). Believe it or not- and we know a lot of you probably won’t believe it ;) , the first Kindle was really popular, and they were constantly sold out on Amazon’s site.

The original Kindle  let you read countless books on one small, thin device and let you download new books, magazines and newspapers straight to the Kindle using Sprint’s 3G network– all without charging you a monthly data price.

Now the Kindle, as we said, was really, really popular, and this past week Amazon announced the next generation version  of the device, cleverly named the Amazon Kindle 2. So what’s new in the Kindle 2 and why should you care? Well, read on to find out!

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