All Romance eBooks: Freebies (via Jane). Amazon: Refurbished Kindle 2s---currently in stock for $219. Will competition further drive down used, refurb and new Kindle prices? Barnes & Noble: “E-books under $5” and $9.99 NYT bestsellers. Books on Board: Cybook Opus for $198. Lets you bold all text in an e-book to increase readability of books with E Ink. When will Sony add this feature to the competing Pocket Reader, now on sale at Fries for $160, as discovered earlier by Danny Davis? Cyberread: “Review your...

I want e-books to succeed, and I think that a successful e-book market needs to include competitors to Amazon. So I was glad that BooksOnBoard was partnering with Stanza to bring "for purchase content" to the iPhone. When I had a free moment, I took the opportunity to visit BooksOnBoard to experience the purchase process. The first time was a bit, well, off-putting. It took fourteen steps and over 10 minutes on the Edge connection. I e-mailed BooksOnBoard with my frustrations, and the company was very prompt and responsive. It asked me to try again; and on my...

Check out a post from Neelan Choksi at Lexycle, who discusses the Stanza-BooksOnBoard interface. Along the way he shares an interesting stat: "We believe over 3 million ePub books have been downloaded to Stanza." Meanwhile Lori James at All Romance eBooks, another retailer offering ePub via Stanza, tells us of an interface improvement to help address Jane Litte's concerns expressed in our comment area. For newcomers: Stanza is an e-reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It allows direct downloads of e-books---not quite as easily as the Kindle, but I suspect it'll reach that point...