Amazon announces $3 ebooks: if you bought the dead tree edition from them

[thewayne]

About bloody time. I hope Barnes & Noble follows suite. I prefer, for a variety of reasons, B&N ebooks and their Nook over Amazon's format and the Kindles. My problem is that I have an old Nook tablet, theoretically I can root it and it will run a version of Android, but I don't know if it'll be a late enough version to access Google's Play store and the Kindle app. B&N is going to be announcing two new Nooks soon, so I may need to buy a new tablet in the not distant future.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/383932/amazon-kindle-matchbook-bundles-ebooks-with-print-purchases

Comments

[silveradept]

There is a version of Android up to 4.2 for all the rootable tablets. Probably soon a 4.3 version, once everything gets sorted out. Stupidly enough, they often have issues with the nook app.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It would not surprise me if they've lightly sabotaged it. My wife uses the Kindle app on her Mac and iPad, and seems to work well. Myself, I think I'd either get an ePub version or use a DRM stripper on something my wife buys and convert it.

But I doubt I would do that, there's too much good free material in non-Kindle formats, I could read only Project Gutenberg for years and be happy.