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Inexplicable rise in iPhone dev’s App Store sales connected to iTunes account hacks?
We’ve received a handful of tips this morning claiming something’s rotten in the state of the iTunes App Store , namely via the Book category. As of this writing, 42 of the top 50 books by revenue are from the seller Thuat Nguyen, whose company website (“mycompany”) leads to parked site www.home.com
Graphite Kindle DX coming July 7th for $379, now available for pre-order
Amazon’s having a field day with its Kindle lineup as of late. Hot off the heels of its Kindle price drop , bigger brother Kindle DX has gotten a new shade, a touted 50 percent improved contrast, and a $379 price tag — much lower than the $489 it asked for when first hitting the scene
Amazon Kindle Editions with video and audio added to iPhone / iPad app
No, Amazon didn’t just release a new Kindle capable of doing full motion video with embedded audio. Instead, Amazon just updated the content for the Kindle app running on Apple gear that gives a few books an inject of multimedia. For example, Rich Steves’ London Kindle Edition with audio/video features walking tours with Rich doing the narration while Rose’s Heavenly Cakes features video tips for…
Pandigital Novel preview
Sure, Pandigital’s Novel may be delayed until next month because of some firmware issues — and we haven’t heard the most positive things about the 7-inch LCD based e-reader / tablet — but we had to check it out for ourselves. At $149, the all-plastic reader isn’t going to win any build quality awards (it’s also rather heavy for what it is), but the Android 2.1-powered gadget does have a pretty attractive user interface.
WiFi-only Nook surfaces in Barnes and Noble database, costs $149?
We knew it was coming , but not how soon, and we’d only guessed at a price. Today a tipster sent over this screenshot, however, clearly showing a Nook WiFi on Wednesday for $149
Blio finally launching e-reading software soon, Walmart excited for some reason or another
So yeah, we sort of forgot all about Blio and its e-reading software for laptops and smartphones, but it turns out the company has kept on truckin’. While it seems to have missed the February release of its software, famed inventor and founder of the company Ray Kurzweil told the New York Times that it will be more widely available over the next two months
