In the wake of the Nook Tablet announcement this morning, Barnes and Noble also announced a price cut for two of its other ereading devices, the Nook Color, now priced at $199, and the Nook Simple Touch, now just $99. Both devices have been popular among bookworms and will offer shoppers a nice selection to choose from this holiday season. Read more

If you thought that the Kobo ereader was limited to just Borders stores (R.I.P), think again. Kobo has launched its next edition ereader at Best Buy, and it's coming with a surprising feature: a touchscreen! The Kobo Ereader Touch Edition ($130) comes with an extremely competitive price tag along with a Pearl E Ink touchscreen display, which makes glare-free reading in the sun a breeze and Read more

In a blow to Helvetica fanatics everywhere (this girl included), a new Princeton study finds that the easier the font, the less you'll remember after reading. Turns out challenging, "disfluent" fonts actually help readers retain information, not hinder it as many people believe. This could spell bad news for avid ereader users hoping to quickly retain much of what they've read, since most Read more

The New Yorker just released its iPad app and it already has fans, especially those iPad users who were waiting for this electronic version of the venerable mag. But complaints about magazine titles on the iPad so far seem to center on the lack of a subscription service, which means buying the iPad version of your favorite magazine at issue prices close to newsstand offerings. If you are a print Read more

The Kobo ereader is the perfect gadget for book fans on a budget, but it will soon be used as a luxurious offering from one of the top hotels in the world. Fairmont hotels has partnered up with the Kobo to offer free ereading to its President's Club members who stay in its exclusive Fairmont Gold rooms. Fairmont Gold is like a hotel within a hotel consisting of plush rooms and world-class Read more

With the increasing presence and diversity of gadgets — from netbooks to tablets to smartphones and ereaders — it's hard to peg them into any one category. I don't think an iPad counts as a computer, but I'm sure that others feel differently (Yankee Stadium officials, for example). But when one New York Times writer was told he couldn't use his Kindle at a coffee shop, he was first confused, Read more