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In this edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show, we talk about Kindle Price Hikes, if Ad-supported Kindles now make less sense, and the new Pocketbook Q e-reader.
The Good e-Reader Radio show talks about the destruction of hardcover books by AI companies like Amazon.
This edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show includes upcoming new Kindles, Storygraph on Kobo e-readers and a new Kindle app for Windows 11.
Learn about the latest happenings in the e-paper, e-reader, and e-notebook space with the Good e-Reader Podcast.
Welcome to another exciting edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show. Michael and Peter will be with you for a good hour, discussing what is next for the e-reader and e-note industry in 2024. What will Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and Remarkable do? They will all release new hardware; this show covers what you can expect. There are some trends for 2024. Smaller regional players will continue to grow, targeting one country or a few different ones. Examples include HyRead and Kyobo. E INK will play a role in new hardware, such as E INK Kaleido 3 and E INK Carta 1300. Want to know about the upco
Welcome to the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today, Michael and Peter discuss why Amazon did not release any new hardware in 2023 and their plans for 2024. Barnes and Noble are suspending services for older Nook e-readers, and Kobo has plans for at least one new e-reader for 2024. Onyx Boox has one of the most confusing product lines, and we can't keep track of their new hardware. Should they change this philosophy or monetize their devices with paid software? Supernote will release three new products in the next couple of months.
In this edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show, Michael and Peter discuss new e-readers and e-notes that have come out in the past month or two and what will be released in the next few months. They discuss the new Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight Plus 2023 edition, Sony DPT-RP3 Digital Paper, and Fujitsu Quaderno Gen 3. Will Amazon release a new Kindle this year? With so many new products released in 2023, what is worth your time and money? You will get a sense of the best ones you should buy for the summer of 2023.
Welcome to an exciting New Year's edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show. Michael and Peter break down all of the major occurrences in the e-paper, e-reader and e-note industry in 2022. You will learn about all of the major new products that came out and and their thoughts on them. Most of the time perspective changes from the day the products are first reviewed, to how they perform later in the year with a couple of firmware updates. Michael and Peter break down the new products from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo. These are the largest companies in the world that release a number of new dev
In this edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show, Michael and Peter break down all of the top stories from October. Many new e-readers and e-notes have been released in this past month. The 11th Generation Amazon Kindle is the most notable, it has been upgraded with a 300 PPI display and 16GB of storage, which houses 4x the number of digital books. Onyx announced a new lineup of products that are on pre-order now and will be shipping out at the beginning of November. The Tab Ultra is the most notable, it is as fast as a typical Android tablet, however it has an E INK screen. The Leaf 2 has manu
Welcome back to another utterly compelling edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show and Podcast. Lots of new E INK related products have come out lately, some are dedicated e-readers such as the new Kindle, Tolino Shine 4, Hanvon N10 Mini and a bunch of new Onyx readers that are only available in China. There are also have been a few Fire tablets that have come out like the Fire 8 HD and also some cool monitors with an e-paper screen on one side and a full color LCD on the other. In this show we cover everything new that has come out lately, in addition to my thoughts on the new Kindle Scribe,
Welcome to the Good e-Reader Radio Show with Michael Kozlowski and Peter Carotenuto. Once a month, the boys give you a sense of all of the latest news in the audiobook, ebook, e-reader and e-note industry. Today, you will understand why audiobooks and digital books are so expensive and some of the reasons why this has occurred. Audiobooks have always cost more, even going back to cassette and CD days. Engineers, well known voices and billable hours is what drives costs up and audiobook sales are the fastest growing segment in digital publishing for the past five years. Kobo is going to be anno
Good e-Reader Radio is back with Michael and Peter. Today on the show the boys discuss the co-branded color e-reader with Bigme and Good e-Reader. You will get a sense on why Kickstarter was selected as the crowdfunding platform of choice and when it is going to be shipped out. Why did we create it and what went into the hardware and software decisions? Your questions will be answered. What in the world is happening with E INK Kaleido 3 and Gallery 3 color e-paper? Why hasn't anyone included it in their products yet? The short answer is the panels aren't ready yet for anyone to make a consumer
Good e-Reader Radio is back with Michael Kozlowski! Today, you will learn why so many e-readers are suddenly embracing English on their devices. Xiaomi just released their first one, Hiread another and now Hanvon?! Are you going to buy a new e-reader in the next couple of months? You will get a sense on what new e-readers have just come out and what ones are worth buying. Did you grow up reading? What was your first introduction to books? Mine was Star Wars read along records that came with these little books. I think I might have been 3 at the time and started to build word correlation. This
In this edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show, your host Michael Kozlowski talks about all of the latest Amazon Kindle News. The lead story focuses on why Kindle for Android from Google Play has dropped support for the purchasing of ebooks in the app. Older Kindle e-readers will also have the store disabled in August, 2022. Send to Kindle, which not a lot of people use, will have support for EPUB books later this year and also cease supporting older formats. There are going to be more e-readers released in 2022, than any other year in the history of e-readers. I surmise, that over 130 e-read
Welcome to another riveting edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today, Peter and Michael discuss all of the latest e-paper news. You will get a sense on what E INK Gallery 3, Kaleido 3 and Spectra 3100 bring to the table. Our main story is how many companies such as Audible, B&N and Amazon are disabling in-app purchases on their Android apps. You will learn all about the new Google billing system and how this will affect the average user. Remarkable has sold over 1 million units and made over a billion dollars in revenue. This is due to one of the best marketing campaigns in the history o
Welcome to the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Lots of big brands are starting to abandon the Android platform and stop in-app purchases. This is because Google is now requiring a 30% commission on everything sold in an app and all apps have to use their new billing system. Audible, Barnes and Noble and a few others have already turned their apps into consumption only. Kobo has promised they will continue to sell content, and will be embracing the new billing system. What does the future hold for Kindle for Android? Listen and find out! There was a record number of e-readers and digital note taking
In this edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show, Peter and Michael take a look at the China situation. A resurgence of COVID has hit the country hard and many companies are struggling to ship out products, since major carriers such as DHL, FEDEX are being delayed. Many brands such as Amazon, Kobo, B&N are experiencing stock shortages and shipping by boat, is not an option. Onyx Boox has just released the Nova Air Color, a new 7.8 inch 300 PPI reader that has Kaleido Plus e-paper technology. Onyx has made some software optimizations, so this device is lights out. It should be way better than th
Today on the Good e-Reader Radio Show you will learn about the e-reader industries plans for 2022. The show covers Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Bigme, Onyx Boox, Remarkable, Supernote, Bookeen, Tolino, Hisense and many others. You will learn about what readers will have a refresh and what the likely specs are. In order to really understand what new products will be coming out, we first need to go over the big releases of 2021. One of the big new trends of 2022 will be audiobooks. Kobo launched the Libra, Sage and Elipsa. These all have deadly features, but also have Bluetooth, an aud
Welcome back to another compelling edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show. Today, you will learn about the concentrated effort by Chinese e-reader companies to adopt English on their latest generation of products. This includes brands like Xiaomi, Bigme, Huawei and others. You will also learn about why this is happening and who the trailblazers were. Barnes and Noble is changing their entire audiobooks experience. They have shuttered their dedicated Nook Audiobooks app and the old website. They have fully incorporated audio into the main website, when you search for a book, audiobooks will no
The Good e-Reader Radio Show returns! Michael and Peter will be doing a once a month radio show, on the last Sunday every month! Michael will be doing a solo show, exclusively available on the Good e-Reader website, where you will be kept up to date on the last happening of the E-Reader and E INK industry. On the show today, Michael and Peter talk about e-paper display screens that have been announced over the years. We talk about Clearink, Plastic Logic, Pixel QI, Bridgestone, Mirasol and many others. How did these technologies originally get developed and what happened to them? Some are stil
The Good e-Reader Radio Show returns with a focus on all of the new e-readers that have come out lately and what the big selling points are. SuperNote is finally shipping out the A6, the Boyue Likebook Alita is now available, the Oasis came out recently and Pocketbook just announced the InkPad Pro! Tons of new things happening in the e-reader industry. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
Welcome back to another compelling edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today Michael runs down all of the new e-readers that will be released this Fall and what you can expect. Kobo has a new e-reader in the works and I am told this is a second generation Aura One. This model will have a dual core processor and Bluetooth, so you can listen to audiobooks. The Paperwhite 4 is the most eagerly anticipated e-reader of the year. Amazon wants to keep the price the same, so don't expect major features. Instead it will have Bluetooth and Audible functionality and the big rumor is that it will hav
Welcome back to another exciting edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! A few times a year Good e-Reader conducts many interviews with the leaders of the industry. This includes the CEO of Kobo, executives from Amazon and E-ink. What goes into preparing for an interview and what is the entire journalist process like? Today, Michael breaks it all down, including an upcoming interview with the president of E-Ink. I was told by my sources that Progress Technologies out of Japan are making a second generation dual screen eonebook. They will include an SD card on this model and sell SD cards with
Welcome back to another utterly compelling edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we are talking about 3G on e-readers and if it is time for more companies to start offering another option to buy ebooks on the go. It is summertime and that means it's time to relax at the beach or at the lake. What ebook readers are waterproof and dustproof? We give you our top recommendations. Finally, do you use RSS on your e-reader or Pocket? When e-readers first started to come out there were a few companies that experimented with 3G and WIFi in order to buy ebooks on the go. The world is a big plac
There has been a ton of innovation in the e-reader arena in 2017. The second generation Kindle Oasis came out and was the first e-reader that had the Audible bookstore and Bluetooth to listen with wireless speakers. The Remarkable came out and defined digital note taking and the startup was so successful that it spawned a very competitive space where many people were vying for your wallets and attention. The Aura One Limited Edition was released and since no Kobo has an SD card anymore, a 32GB model that featured a new rapid page turn system was very compelling. This year, we have taken a step
