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Starting this Friday, save $20 on the Kobo Mini e-reader

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:30:20 +0000

Our friends over at Good E-Reader alerted us this morning to a Valentine’s Day promotion that’s being planned by the good folks at Kobo: Starting this Friday, January 25, and running all the way through Valentine’s Day (Thursday, February 14), the fantastic and too-small-to-be-believed Kobo Mini e-reader will be available for just $59.99—that’s a full $20 [...]

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Calling for the demise of E Ink readers is premature

Aggregated Content — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:30:34 +0000

By Juli Monroe I’ve been reading posts saying that “E-Ink is dead” for, well, years now. The general argument goes something like this: “People really want tablets. They don’t want a single-function device. E-ink is too slow to refresh and isn’t good for anything except reading books. And people don’t read anyway.” All of those [...]

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Why “Send To Kindle” makes Amazon better than Barnes & Noble and others

Aggregated Content — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:54:02 +0000

By Juli Monroe Last week I wrote an article for one of our sister sites, GadgeTell, on ways Barnes & Noble could remain relevant with the Nook line. While I stand by everything I wrote in that article, I missed an important point. One of the reasons I stay with Amazon and my Kindle Touch [...]

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Kobo in Canada: A Triumph in Marketing?

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:14:38 +0000

There is a great thread going on at Mobile Read on the Kobo series and their success in Canada. The poster, Scrapking, points out that Kobo was not the first reader available in Canada—that honor goes to Sony—but it has now become by far the dominant. The evidence? A glance at the flyers the big electronics [...]

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On Black Friday, Kindle Fire comes with a free gift card

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:00:57 +0000

Jon Cog of the Me and My Kindle blog gave us a very convenient heads-up yesterday about Amazon’s Black Friday plans for the Kindle Fire. As he reports on his site: Amazon’s retail-store partners, like Best Buy, OfficeMax, Staples, or Office Depot, [are] reportedly not allowed to lower the actual price of the [Kindle Fire], but they’re doing [...]

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Refurbished Kindles available cheap at Best Buy

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:53:47 +0000

If you’re currently in the market for a Kindle but happen to be on a strict budget at the same time, head on over to The Digital Reader immediately, where our friend Chris Meadows has a tip on budget-priced refurbished models currently being sold at select Best Buy locations in the United States. Chris says he tracked down [...]

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Kobo Vox goes in-store at Best Buy

Paul Biba — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:46:52 +0000

From the press release: Kobo, a global leader in eReading with over 7 million users in 170 countries worldwide, today announced the in-store availability of the Kobo Vox eReader at Best Buy stores across the United States and online at www.bestbuy.com. The Kobo Vox eReader, will be sold at Best Buy for $199 (USD), has seen strong adoption worldwide [...]

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Black Friday e-reader roundup

Chris Meadows — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:24:09 +0000

It appears this is going to be the Christmas (or at least the Black Friday) of the $99 e-reader. Apart from the $99 Nook at Best Buy we mentioned the other day (and other discounts on the Pandigital Novel ($139.99) and Sharper Image Literati ($119.99)), now the leaked Wal*Mart Black Friday circular (PDF; link may [...]

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Quick Note: Nook and Best Buy for Black Friday; iPad update delayed

Paul Biba — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:20:20 +0000

According to our sister blog, Gamertell, Best Buy’s Black Friday circular has leaked and one of the items is the Nook, which will be selling for $100, instead of $150. You can find more here. ___________________________________________ EbookNewser is reporting that the long awaited iPad iOS 4.2 software update has been delayed till next week. Evidently [...]

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Best Buy to start selling iPad in all US stores

Paul Biba — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:50:00 +0000

According to Bloomberg they will be starting on September 26 and the iPad will be in all 1.093 stores. Their CEO said: “We see the iPad as the magnificent shining light in what will become a whole new category, and that is tablets,” Dunn said. “In many cases, it’s an incremental device. In some cases, [...]

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Quick Note: Best Buy to carry the Kindle

Paul Biba — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:00:27 +0000

A news release today says that, beginning this fall, Best Buy will carry the Kindle. The WiFi unit will be $139.99 and the 3G will be $189.99. In addition to the Kindle, Best Buy will also be selling the Nook and the Sony Reader Touch, Pocket and Daily Editions.

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Tablets for the holidays? Yes, says Best Buy

Paul Biba — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:21:21 +0000

A Forbes article says that Best Buy is going to be concentrating on tablets for the holidays: “Going into the holidays, we will make tablets a focus,” said Shawn Score, the president of Best Buy’s wireless retail unit, Best Buy Mobile, in an interview. “Like e-readers over the last couple years, we think customers will [...]

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Geek Squad launches $29.99 ereader setup service – a great idea!

Paul Biba — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:33:34 +0000

That’s right and I think it’s a great idea. Most of us reading ebooks today are either techies or computer savvy people. However, ebooks are reaching out to a greater and greater audience and a lot, if not most, of this audience does not have a high degree to computer literacy. They can use the [...]

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Tablet coming from RocketFish/Best Buy?

Paul Biba — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:55:11 +0000

Engadget has a story about this. Evidently Best Buy’s CTO uploaded some pictures of the RocketFish-branded tablet and then tweeted them. RocketFish is BestBuy’s house brand. Not much detail is available, but Engadget says that about a month ago he was talking about a tablet with a front facing camera which was running Android 2.2. [...]

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Apple Quick Notes: iPad launch, iPod Touch prototypes, iPhone Android

Chris Meadows — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:15:00 +0000

Steve Jobs has perpetrated another email response, saying in three letters and a period that the 3G iPad will be in Best Buy on its April 30th launch day. (If brevity is the soul of wit, Mr. Jobs must be one of the wittiest people ever.) Of course, there’s no guarantee Best Buy will have [...]

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