Good e-Reader exclusively learned a couple of weeks ago that E Ink has developed a new kind of color e-paper that will be available in digital note taking devices sometime in 2020. It will be able to display around 5,000 colors and give users the ability to draw and take notes in … | Continue reading
Good e-Reader has heard from the upstream supply chain a couple of months ago that there was going to be a Remarkable 2 developed. It happened quicker than I originally thought. The product has completed mass production and is ready to be released sometime in the next few weeks, … | Continue reading
E Ink and Wacom have just unveiled a new breed of color e-paper. It does not have a name yet, but the two sides are going to market this new technology to other major players in the game. Wacom has disclosed to Good e-Reader at Connected Ink 2019 about the new technology and it … | Continue reading
Public libraries in the United States, who have a audiobook and ebook collection, have to deal with all of the big five publishers. Each publisher has different terms and conditions, as well as pricing. This can create headaches for collection managers. Some books can 1200% more … | Continue reading
A delegation of state librarians met with Macmillan CEO John Sargent last week and the publisher reiterated their claims that new ebooks in the library are hurting their sales. Macmillan has concerns that ebook sales are rising in public libraries but declining with consumers. S … | Continue reading
The Kingrow K1 is the first E Ink driven smartphone with modern specs. It has a single e-paper panel as the main screen that gives you around three weeks of battery life. Good e-Reader now has the final production model in our hands and would like to offer you a full unboxing vid … | Continue reading
There are a myriad of lawsuits currently transpiring and could decide the fate of many digital publishing initiatives. The first is a bloody affair between Barnes and Noble and former Demos Parneros who was fired for different reasons, depending on who you talk to. The official r … | Continue reading
Self-publishing grew by a rate of 40% in 2018 and it will not slow down anytime soon. The combined total of self-published print books and ebooks with registered ISBNs grew from almost 1.2 million in 2017 to more than 1.6 million in 2018. Digital books accounted for 8% of all sel … | Continue reading
The Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) announced 12 companies with products using the USI 1.0 Specification today. USI 1.0 is the first open standard active stylus protocol on the market and should jumpstart stylus technology. USI 1.0 replaces proprietary approaches with a single … | Continue reading
Hisense has just unveiled new smartphone that has a single screen E Ink Carta HD that is 5.8 inches. You will be able to adjust the screen brightness with the built in front-lit system, but it does not have amber LED lights. Underneath the hood is a Qualcomm 660 Octa-core process … | Continue reading
Onyx Boox is going to be releasing the MAX 3 in the next few days. It will have Android 9 and be powered by a Qualcomm quad core processor and will be able to connect up to 5G WIFI. This is going to likely be the best 13.3 inch e-reader to be released, ever. The vast majority of … | Continue reading
Major publishers have recently changed their ebook terms, en masse. Simon and Schuster changed their audiobook system from a perpetual model to a two year term. Hachette changed their perpetual model system last month and Penguin Random House did the same back in October. Last s … | Continue reading
The second generation Kindle Voyage 2 is looking likely to be released sometime in 2020. The company has been developing various prototypes for the past two years and many of the elements that were developed exclusively for this model, bled into other products. The amber light di … | Continue reading
When you think of the name E Ink, you often first consider e-readers as being the poster child. Their e-paper technology powers every single modern ebook reader on the market. The company is also very bullish on electronic shelf labels, they recently invested millions into SES-im … | Continue reading
Ebook piracy is increasing every single year. $300 million was lost in author income due to pirated book sales in the United States last year. This figure fluctuates year to year, in 2017 Nielsen consumer survey covering ebook piracy found $315 million in US book sales was lost a … | Continue reading
Books entering the public domain are not easy to figure out. This year most books from 1923 entered the public domain with, more to follow every year. But there's another source of public domain works: until the 1976 Copyright Act, US works were not copyrighted unless they were r … | Continue reading
There are a number of different stylus on the market. Most of them are included in the purchase of your e-reader. Most companies use a plastic stylus with plastic nib, these are the most cost effective stylus on the market. They get the job done, but do not offer advanced feature … | Continue reading
One of the great pitfalls of buying ebooks is that there is no true sense of ownership. This is quite evident when Microsoft decided to close their digital bookstore last month and customers will be losing all access to everything they purchased and free books sometime in July. … | Continue reading
Elderly people used to drive book sales and often was the largest demographic to enjoy reading a good book. This is not the case anymore, they are now watching tv and are streaming cat videos. On any given day in 2018, the average American spent a little more than 15 minutes read … | Continue reading
DeepZen is a voice synthesizer project that utilizes artificial intelligence algorithms from IBM’s Power A.I. and Watson technologies. DeepZen has developed text-to-speech tools that not only sound human at first listen, but can also pick up on the emotional cues needed for readi … | Continue reading
The EE Write E-Pad is the first commercial e-reader product from a relatively new company based in China, called Wisky. They have been crowdfunding on Kickstarter and then Indiegogo for the past five months and have raised over $800,000. They are billing it as an E Ink Android ta … | Continue reading
Kindle today released a global survey, conducted by Kelton Global in 13 countries, that shows the impact reading has on our happiness has no borders. Around the globe, readers find the timeless activity boosts happiness, fosters communication and improves our relationships â in … | Continue reading
Whenever international or domestic travelers enter the USA, the TSA can gain access to your e-reader, smartphone, tablet or laptop, without a warrant. This might come to an end due to new legislation by California congressional Rep. Ted Lieu introduced a new bill, along with simi … | Continue reading
Barnes and Noble has just announced the Nook Glowlight Plus, which is the booksellers first large screen e-reader. This 7.8 inch device is exclusively available in stores only starting Monday, May 27, and online starting Wednesday, May 29, for just $199.99 The Nook Glowlight Plus … | Continue reading
Clearink has just debuted Clearink 2.0 e-paper technology at SID Display Week 2019. We have an agent there that just provided a video to give us clearer context on their new 9.7 inch reflective displays with front light, 1:16 contrast ratio, 4096 colors, 19.5% NTSC color gamut, 3 … | Continue reading
E Ink has just announced new technology called JustTint, which uses variable transmissive films. It was invented for applications across automotive, architectural, and real estate industries. Think tinted sunroofs, privacy glass and skylights â enabling partial or entire panes … | Continue reading
The Xiaomi e-Reader is complete and it should be announced sometime next week. This new device is likely going to feature a 7.8 inch screen and would be a dedicated ebook reader. It would be competing against a number of e-reader brands in China, such as Boyue. There has been lit … | Continue reading
E Ink has been working on Advanced Color E-Paper for a number of years and it was designed for digital signage in mind. TOPPAN Printing and Isetan Mitsukoshi has just developed the world’s first digital point-of-purchase using ACEP. E Ink’s first generation ACeP display is capabl … | Continue reading
There are many E Ink smartphones that have come out in the past few months and a bunch of new ones are going to be released periodically until the end of 2019. Smartphones with e-paper are more viable because the cost of processors has come down and this has resulted in octa-core … | Continue reading
There are millions of people who do not buy ebooks or other digital content and pirate it instead. This is offending the sensibilities of Sir Philip Pullman who is the president of the Society of Authors. He has signed a joint letter to Business Secretary Greg Clark alongside 32 … | Continue reading
Medium can be considered a longform blogging platform and they have had many missteps over the years in a bid to be profitable. The platform is taking the odd step of turning into a digital publisher and will be releasing a new ebook next week called The Big Disruption, by former … | Continue reading
We have all been slightly or totally inebriated and purchased something online. Sometimes there is a bit of regret once the credit card bill comes in, but sometimes a shiny new Kindle will ease the pain. A recent survey found that drunk shopping is an estimated $45B per year indu … | Continue reading
Amazon has just unveiled a new entry level Kindle e-reader with an E Ink Carta display and a front-light. This e-reader refreshes the old model that has been heavily discounted in the past few months, as Amazon was trying to get rid of as many units as possible. The entry level K … | Continue reading
Playster has fired their entire staff two weeks ago and only a few executives remain with the company. Management has asked everyone to keep it a secret and not to post about it on social media. P | Continue reading
Lenovo has just invested several million dollars in CLEARink and the two companies have commenced joint development activities to develop the next generation of tablet devices. Lenovo has also joi | Continue reading
Audiobooks continue to be the fastest growing segment in digital publishing and everyone is benefiting. Listeners are finding that most of the new books that come out are getting the audio treatme | Continue reading
The Boyue Mimas 10.3 inch e-reader is a digital note taking device and an ebook reader that runs Google Android. The big selling points is that it has a front-lit display and glowlight, making it | Continue reading
Nemeio is a new company and their first product is an E Ink keyboard. With Nemeio, you can modify the characters as you wish: QWERTY, AZERTY, Bépo, in French, Spanish with the shortcuts of your | Continue reading
E-Readers are on the rise and more devices were released in 2018, than any other year. Companies like Boyue, Onyx Boox and Pocketbook are beginning to be household names due to innovative hardware | Continue reading
Rdot is a company based in Sweden and they have just developed an e-paper display that they think is better than E Ink. The Rdot Display is an electrochromic display. It categorized as a reflectiv | Continue reading
The Amazon Kindle is the most popular e-reader in the United States and United Kingdom. There are a few different models that are currently available, such as the entry level Kindle, Kindle Paperw | Continue reading
Japan believes that smartphones are ruining children's eyesight and new research proclaims that 25% are failing vision tests. It was also found that 34.1 % of elementary students and up to a whopp | Continue reading
This summer Walmart started to carry Kobo e-readers and gift cards that could be redeemed for digital books in around a thousand stores in the United States. The company primarily was marketing th | Continue reading
Google has just launched an app called Chrome Canvas and it is accessible with any internet browser. You can draw, take notes and everything is automatically saved to your Google account and can b | Continue reading
The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader and Google Play Books Cloud Reader systems allow users to read ebooks they have downloaded for free or purchased in all of the major internet browsers. The provide f | Continue reading
Amazon traditionally has been the only game in town for people who have book blogs or run newsletters on cheap Kindle books. Amazon has become more ruthless on the types of content they will pay c | Continue reading
Ever since ebooks first started getting popular in the past decade, various companies all over the world have experimented with a used ebook marketplace. The most popular in North America was ReDi | Continue reading