Looks like the rumors of Amazon offering its Kindle eBook reader in Target stores was true, as it has been officially confirmed today. With that confirmed, the six-inch version of the Kindle will be hitting Target’s pioneering store in Minneapolis, as well as 102 other stores in southern Florida. The good news is that the pricing at stores will be the same as the online price, which is $259. that move pursues Barnes & Noble offering its Nook eBook reader at Best Buy, and possibly to fend off the challenge from Apple’s popular iPad. Who do you think will emerge as the victor in that battle?

Press release.

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Amazon probably isn’t going to be composition to sit back and watch Barnes & Noble offer its Nook eBook reader at Best Buy stores, and now we’ve got a leak that the Kindle eBook reader might be poised to be sold at brick and mortar Target stores, with the rumored instance being April 25th. Considering that the iPad was launched just a few days back, it’ll be really interesting to see how the Kindle, Nook and iPad affect the sales of each other, as all are competent at offering consumers a device to read eBooks on. duration will tell us who the victor eventually is, of course.

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Have we moved one step closer to color eBook readers? PVI, the company who makes the e-ink displays for Amazon’s Kindle, is now showing off its 6-inch and 9.7-inch color e-ink displays for eBook readers at a trade show in Shenzhen, China. The displays on demo are able to handle animated color clips, albeit the refresh rate of the display was far from good decent to handle video. PVI has already shown the screens to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, though there wasn’t any confirmation as to whether it will be used for future eBook readers. These color screens obviously consume more energy than the monochrome e-ink displays, but it’s still less than the energy consumption of LCD panels. PVI is predicting mass production of these displays to start in Q4 of 2010. Will the next generation of eBook readers sport color e-ink displays?

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Samsung is targeting a spring release moment for their E6 eReader device which will be accompanied by a Barnes & Noble partnership, although it remains to be seen whether the E6 will be successful in its own right or not. The E6 will retail for $299 according to other sources online, and at that price point you will get a slider scheme factor that is reminiscent of some Palm PDA models, where it comes equipped with a 6” E-ink display at 600 x 800 resolution with 8-Gray scale for easy readability regardless of whether you are indoors or out. Supported formats include E-pub, PDF/a, TXT, BMP and JPG. The integrated front speakers lets you experience Samsung’s text-to-speech (TTS) technology, although don’t be blown away by it. You will additionally get Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity with Samsung’s rare EmoLink technology that enables users to share substance among Samsung eReader devices. Just in case its 2GB of internal memory is not adequate, there is always a microSD memory card slot that further augments taht amount to 16GB. [Press Release]

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Amazon’s Kindle might still be dominating the eBook scene, but some interesting challengers such as the Barnes & Noble Nook and Apple iPad have presented (or will be appearing, in the iPad’s case). Things look like it will be getting a lot tougher as LG’s CEO, KW Kim, has plus confirmed that the company plans to introduce its own eBook reader by April, albeit in the Middle East and Africa market. Aside from that, the company has plus received a global order for a large volume of displays used in Apple’s iPad, and it is plus in talks with telecom operator Etisalat to launch a line of notebooks integrated with Google’s operating system, which could mean Chrome OS or Android. There isn’t any mention of how the LG eBook reader will look like, but whether it uses the tech from the flexible electronic paper screen we mentioned a while ago, that would be really cool.

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Are you satisfied with the $9.99 price point of eBooks on Amazon’s Kindle, or do you think that publishers should be allowed to price the books higher? Every consumer wants to get the best deal, us included, unfortunately it seems that Macmillan are in the midst of a little dispute with Amazon at the moment, as Macmillan wants to offer some eBooks at $12.99 to $14.99, but Amazon would like to keep it at $9.99. When you look at the upcoming competition, such as the Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iPad, it’s understandable that Amazon will want to keep the price appealing, though it will plus need to prepare certain it doesn’t hurt the publishers too. Unfortunately Amazon has stopped directly selling Macmillan titles, which is certainly a aftereffect of the dispute.

As a aftereffect, Macmillan CEO, took out a paid advertisement in Publishers Marketplace to voice out on the issue. Whether it was directly related to the ad he put out or not, Amazon seems to have relented, and will give in the Macmillan, allowing it to sell eBooks at a higher price, even though it considers the price too high. Do you think that Amazon should be the one to control the pricing of these eBooks, or should consumers be the ones to give feedback (via their wallets) on that issue?

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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com claims that millions of humans now own Kindles, and that certainly surprised many analysts, since most society thought that Amazon would probably have sold 2.5 million odd Kindles by the end of 2010. Reports are coming in that the total number of Kindles sold by the past few years has exceeded 3 million, and that was even before the new model with worldwide documents was released. It’ll be interesting to see whether the Kindle can keep up its momentum, particularly with the Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple iPad, and a billion other eBook readers out there trying to dethrone the Kindle.

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[CES 2010] The Que reader looks really great, there’s no question about that. Next to it, the Kindle looks so cheap, but it is still the best selling ebook out there, I think. That said the Que’s user interface and demonstration substance (USA Today looked fantastic). It is possible to sync files by USB or Wi-Fi (subscription composition too), but there no 3G connection (I’m totally fine with that). Que has a deal with Barnes & Noble, so they should be more than OK content-wise, but the killer is the price: $650 – it’s way too high and I seriously doubt that buyers will line up for that one. whether you wonder, there’s no web browsing, which is a pity considering some news sites do work really well on eBooks with web capability.

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We know that there are many folks out there who have ordered the Nook and not received them, and we feel for you. Fortunately, it seems that Barnes & Noble is willing to take charge of the situation, and at least offer users who pre-ordered the Nook a $100 gift card whether they don’t receive the Nook by Dec 24th. It would probably be a lot more fun to actually have the Nook during Christmas day itself, but at least Barnes & Noble is trying to do something about it. What do you think about that?

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With the popularity of Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-book reader, you’d hardly expect the most urgent device in that field to be left out, right? Right, and that’s why Amazon is claiming that the Kindle is the best selling device on Amazon. Too poor that they didn’t release any actual sales figures for the device, so it seems that we’ll have to rely on guesswork as to how many Kindle units Amazon has sold.

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