Kindle 2

Nook E-Reader Has Potential, but Needs Work

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm PT

Barnes & Noble’s new e-reader has Wi-Fi and allows users to lend books, but it’s slower and less polished than its Kindle competitor, writes Walt Mossberg.

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The Book That Contains All Books

Stephen Marche, Pop Culture Columnist, Esquire Magazine in News on October 19, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

On Monday, the Kindle 2 will become the first e-reader available globally. The only other events as important to the history of the book are the birth of print and the shift from the scroll to bound pages. The e-reader, now widely available, will likely change our thinking and our being as profoundly as the two previous pre-digital manifestations of text.

Sony’s New Reader, Plus Free Library Books, Passes My “Dad Test.” Is That Enough?

Peter Kafka in Media on August 25, 2009 at 10:22 am PT

Sony started selling e-book readers long before Amazon, but blew its lead. So how can it catch up with its new device, which looks and works much like the Kindle, but costs $100 more? Maybe Sony can do it with the help of free books from your local library. After Sony unveiled its new line of readers this morning, I posed that question to Sony executive Steve Haber, who immediately pointed out that his “Daily Edition” machine has a slightly bigger screen than the Kindle 2 and boasts a touchscreen.

The New Yorker Reviews the Kindle: “Buy an iPod Touch”

Peter Kafka in Media on July 27, 2009 at 10:14 am PT

Novelist Nicholson Baker loves books, but not Jeff Bezos’s device: “Amazon is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at making things…fortunately, if you want to read electronic books there’s another way to go. Here’s what you do. Buy an iPod Touch.”

The Latest Kindle: Bigger, Not Better, Than Its Sibling

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on June 10, 2009 at 6:04 pm PT

While the larger Kindle DX performs its promised tasks adequately, its size and weight make it awkward and tiring to hold for long periods of reading.

First Impressions of Kindle on iPhone

Walt Mossberg in Mossblog on March 3, 2009 at 11:02 pm PT

Walt gives his first impressions of the free Kindle e-book reader application for the iPhone.

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Novatel: JMP Advises Getting Out; Kindle Is Not Enough

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on February 27, 2009 at 12:15 pm PT

Novatel shares are down hard this morning after JMP Securities analyst Samuel Wilson downgraded the stock to Market Underperform from Market Perform. For the year through yesterday, Novatel shares had rallied 34.7 percent; Wilson notes that the wireless networking equipment company has gotten a boost from its role providing components to the Amazon Kindle 2 e-book reader. But Wilson says the Kindle 2 will contribute at most $10 million a quarter to Novatel’s revenue, “not enough to fill the hole left by the drop in demand in the PC and USB adapter business.”