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Book Review: Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne

Juli Monroe — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:08:07 +0000

Summer is almost here, and it’s time to find some light vacation reading. If you’re a fan of light fantasy and haven’t tried The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne, I’d suggest you give them a look. The basic premise is that the main character, Atticus O’Sullivan, is the last Druid, and he’s 21 centuries [...]

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BookLikes, a New Social Reading Platform: Do we really need another?

Juli Monroe — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:37:36 +0000

DBW featured a press release for BookLikes, a new social reading platform that is supposed to combine the features of Tumblr and Goodreads. I consider one of my roles here is to involve trying things out, and potentially wasting my time so you don’t have to waste your. And my reaction to this site? Don’t [...]

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App Review: Wunderlist for task management

Juli Monroe — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:53 +0000

As soon as I published the post about Astrid being bought by Yahoo and mentioned I was looking for a new app, my in-box started chiming with suggestions. Wunderlist was one of the more interesting ones, and I’ve been checking it out this week. It has some interesting features that make it worth downloading. It’s usable across multiple devices. [...]

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Barnes & Noble Partners with UK Publishers to Encourage Literacy

Juli Monroe — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:32:21 +0000

Since the middle of 2011, the London Evening Standard has been focused on increasing literacy in the UK with their “Get London Reading” initiative. To date, they’ve raised £1 million (about $1.5 million) and helped more than 2,000 children. Now Barnes & Noble and Nook Media have joined the campaign, along with several large UK [...]

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Apple: Collusion on E-Book Pricing or Just Tough Talks?

Juli Monroe — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:37:51 +0000

The New York Times and Reuters ran articles recently that tell opposing stories about Apple’s role in agency pricing. In the Times story, the Justice Department paints a picture of Apple as the ringleader of agency pricing. In the Reuters story, Apple insists that it just had tough talks with the publishers about the future [...]

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E Ink Releases Mobius, a Large-Format Flexible Display

Juli Monroe — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:49:44 +0000

A few days ago, Sony announced they they were launching a large format reader aimed at the educational market. E Ink is making the screen, which has been touted as flexible and durable. Here’s the relevant section of the press release: E Ink Mobius will be the first flexible display technology that will go into [...]

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Microsoft Not Buying Nook After All?

Juli Monroe — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:30:15 +0000

And this is why I try very hard not to report on rumors. Last week I wrote about a rumor that Microsoft was considering buying the Nook Media division. Well, the rumor was good for Barnes & Noble stock, which spiked up to $22 a share the day the rumor was announced, and then continued [...]

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Kindle Fire users: Check out your Amazon Coins!

Juli Monroe — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:00:02 +0000

When I stopped by Amazon this morning to check the Daily Deal, I saw something cool for you Kindle Fire owners. You’ve got free Amazon Coins! In case you missed the announcement of Coins earlier this year, they were supposed to start in May, and it looks like this announcement is the launch. What can [...]

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7 Must-Have Apps For Your New Nook HD

Juli Monroe — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:43:24 +0000

If you’ve taken advantage of the great sale on the Nook HD (ending today), or if you’ve had one for awhile and recently upgraded to add the Google Play Store, you might be wondering what apps to add. Here’s my list of must-have apps, not available in the Nook App store. 1. Feedly With Google [...]

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Forgot to Turn off your Kindle in flight? You’re not alone!

Juli Monroe — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:47:29 +0000

The Consumer Electronics Association released some interesting data yesterday about electronic devices on planes. • Ninety-nine percent of flyers bring a portable electronic device on a flight with them. That’s a lot of gadgets! • Thirty percent of them have forgotten to turn off a device at some time. Whoops! Another interesting breakdown is this: The study [...]

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Rumor: Microsoft Considering Buying Nook Media

Juli Monroe — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:15:17 +0000

TechCruch had a story on this yesterday. They have obtained some internal documents discussing the proposed deal, with Microsoft reportedly offering $1 billion for Nook Media. I agree with Nate over at The Digital Reader that this sounds plausible. Microsoft has been working with Barnes & Noble since April of last year on Nook devices [...]

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Zinio partnering with Nokia for exclusive app, and $50 worth of free magazines

Juli Monroe — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:57:29 +0000

This one’s pretty specific. If you have a Nokia Lumia Windows 8 phone and are a user of Zinio, you can get $50 worth of free magazines. All this is in celebration of Zinio partnering with Nokia to release an exclusive app for the Nokia Lumia phone. By exclusive, they mean that the Lumia is [...]

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Nook HD as an Android Tablet Contender: Part 2 — Nook HD vs. Nexus 7

Juli Monroe — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:24:33 +0000

Yesterday, I wrote about the Nook HD mostly from a stock OS perspective. But I know the question you really wanted to have answered was this: “Does it work as an Android tablet?” After three days of using it, my answer is a cautious “yes.” Because I still don’t have a tablet case for it, [...]

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Nook HD as an Android Tablet Contender: Part 1 — The Stock Experience

Juli Monroe — Sun, 05 May 2013 18:30:16 +0000

I’ve wanted a Nook HD from the moment they came out. The reviews of the hardware were great, but I swore after I sold my first tablet, a Nook Color, that I’d never buy another crippled device again. The Nook App store is just terrible, and while I tried to make my Nook Color work [...]

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Barnes & Noble Puts the Nook HD Line on Sale for Mother’s Day

Juli Monroe — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:36:02 +0000

Of course they put them on sale two days after I bought one. But my griping aside, this is a great deal. For B&N’s Mother’s Day sale, the Nook HD is priced at $149 while the Nook HD+ is only $179. Those prices are for the lower memory versions, but the higher memory versions are [...]

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