Barnes & Noble’s NOOKstudy coming to students in August
Filed under: Education
Barnes & Noble is diving deeper into the education market with an expected August release of NOOKstudy which will run on Macs and PCs and not require a NOOK or any other mobile device. NOOKstudy will act as a hub for eTextboo...
Get the New York Times on iPad via BN… sort of
Filed under: iPad
Update: Barnes & Noble's PR team pinged us to point out two salient points. #1, the message above does in fact note that only the iPod touch and iPhone versions of the newspaper/magazine subscriptions are temporarily offline -- t...
Eleven ways to stifle boredom in the iPad line
Filed under: iPad
One of most excruciatingly boring experiences of my life was waiting in line on June 29, 2007 for my first-generation iPhone. The day was clear and hot, and although I had my laptop with me, it quickly ran out of juice as we...Sony cuts price of Reader Pocket Edition, tries to duck iPad
Filed under: iPad
Even amateur prognosticators could have seen this one coming on the day that the iPad was announced. With Apple's hardware being so pretty and so full of excellent features, the only way any e-reader competitors could ever hope to beat them was...New York Times: The race is on for iPad apps
Filed under: iPad
Today's New York Times is reporting on the newest gold rush -- the race to be among the first developers to have apps that are specifically tailored to run on the iPad and tested on a pre-release iPad. Most readers of...The good and bad of iPad pricing
Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Bluetooth
I think all of us were surprised at the entry level cost of the new iPad at just US$499.00. In a recent article at ars technica it's stated that the pricing "confirms what a major shift in...Apple scores high on customer experience index, iTunes not so much
Filed under: iTunes, Surveys and Polls, Apple
According to AppleInsider, Apple has scored higher than other PC companies on Forrester's new customer experience survey, but their main software app didn't fare quite as well. Apple came in at number 35 on the...eBook Roundup: 8 Apps for iPhone readers
Filed under: Reviews, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review

An e-book (or ebook, or eBook, depending upon who you ask) is the digital equivalent of a paper book. According to KiwiTech, the publishers of...
Barnes & Noble jumps into the eBook pool
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review
You knew it had to happen, and now it has. Book retailing giant Barnes & Noble, feeling no doubt a bit of pressure from the Amazon Kindle, has launched a free eBook...

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