Archive for the ‘eReader Contests’ Category
Kindle Fire sweepstakes no comments
Amazon is running a sweepstakes that will give away a Kindle Fire tablet bundled with a $250 Amazon.com gift card to 10 winners. Now that would make my day! The contest ends on Nov 4, 2011 and you can find all of the details at Amazon’s Facebook page.
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Kobo unveils Vox tablet no comments
Not to be outdone by Barnes & Noble and Amazon, Kobo today announced a 7-inch Android tablet of its own. Dubbed the Vox — as in Vox Populi; voice of the people — Kobo’s new tablet will retail for $199.99, about the same price as the Kindle Fire.
The Vox will run on Android 2.3 and features an AFFS+ LCD display. AFFS (Advanced fringe field switching) is the LCD technology developed and licensed by Hydis, a division of E Ink Holdings. The AFFS+ version of the technology is supposed to have improved outdoor readability, and the Vox also has an anti-glare coating to help with this.
The Vox will, of course, feature the Kobo ereading app. Kobo also says that the Vox will have access to an app store containing over 15,000 free apps. It will be interesting to see if the Kindle app is there, as Kobo’s reading app is available at Amazon’s Appstore for Android.
Kobo is beefing up its selection of color ebooks, and the Vox will come with three of these free. Digital Magazines will be via Zinio and a PressReader app will be onboard for newspapers. Unlimited music can be streamed to the Vox from RDIO.
Some of the other features of the Vox:
- Dimensions: 7.57 x 5.06 x .53 inches (192.4 x 128.4 x 13.4 mm).
- Screen resolution 1024 x 600 (same as the Kindle Fire).
- Battery life up to 7 hours.
- Built-in email client; contacts, calendar, music player, photo gallery, video player.
- 8GB internal memory;micro SD card slot.
There will be four colors of Vox tablets to choose from — Hot Pink, Lime Green, Ice Blue and Jet Black — and the Vox will come with the familiar Kobo quilted back.
The Vox is available for pre-order today in the US and Canada, and will be available elsewhere on the planet in the future. In Canada, Kobo’s new tablet will be available from Indigo Books & Music, Future Shop and Best Buy. In the US the Vox will be offered by Kobo, Best Buy and Fry’s.
To promote the launch of the Vox, Kobo is having another contest. Each ebook purchased between today and Oct 31, 2011 counts as an entry into a drawing giving away 10 Vox eReaders. There is as usual a non-purchase route of entry as well — see Kobo for details.
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Tetley Tea giving away 25 Nook Color ereaders no comments
Tetley Tea is giving away 25 Nook Color ereaders in a Facebook contest. The contest will run through Nov 7, 2011, during which time Tetley will give away one Nook Color per day. To enter you need to like Tetley on Facebook and post a photo or brief essay of 100 words or less expressing your love of Tetley Tea. Specially marked packages of the company’s tea will also offer a chance to instantly win a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card.
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Velocity Micro contest no comments
Velocity Micro is having a sweepstakes in which the top prizes will be the new T410 and T408 tablets. The contest is only open to residents of the US and Canada and ends on Nov 11, 2011. You can enter at the VM website or Facebook page.
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New Kobo contest no comments
Kobo is having a new contest to promote Forever by Maggie Stiefvator, the latest book in The Wolves of Mercy Falls series. A purchase or gifting of any of the ebooks in the series enters you in a drawing for a Kobo eReader Touch Edition.
The contest runs through Sept 9, 2011. As usual, there is a non-purchase route of entry as well. See Kobo for all of the details.
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New Kobo contest no comments
Kobo started another eReader giveaway today. This contest runs through July 17, 2011 and will give away two eReader Touch Editions with leather cases and $50 Kobo gift certificates. Any customer purchasing an ebook from Kobo during the contest period is automatically entered in the contest. For complete details see Kobo.
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Amazon Xoom giveaway no comments
Amazon is giving away a Motorola Xoom tablet along with some other prizes in a contest to promote the Amazon Prime program. To enter, just go to the “Sweepstakes” tab at Amazon’s Facebook page and click on the “Like” button. To have a chance to win the Xoom you will need to enter by May 1. After that Amazon is giving away other prizes each week, including a Kindle 3 with lighted cover and $50 gift card for the May 16 thru May 22 period.
The contest will end on June 19, 2011 at midnight PST and is limited to US citizens.
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Free ebooks for Kindle & other ereaders no comments
Here are some more temporarily free ebooks for the Kindle and other ereaders:
Almost Perfect (Perfect Trilogy) by Julie Ortolon (4 1/2 stars/19 reviews) Romance.
Delivered with Love by Sherry Kyle (3 1/2 stars/8 reviews) Contemporary fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times, New and Expanded Edition by Jon M. Huntsman (4 1/2 stars/33 reviews) Ethics. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
15 Successful Communications Lessons (Collection) by FT Press Delivers (4 stars/3 reviews) Business. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Options for the Beginner and Beyond: Unlock the Opportunities and Minimize the Risks by W. Edward Olmstead (4 1/2 stars/21 reviews) Investing. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Shattered: A Daughters Regret by Melody Carlson (no ratings) Fiction from a faith-based publisher.
Mobile DNA: Finding Treasure in Junk by Haig H. Kazazian (4 stars/6 reviews) Biology. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It and Get It Back (If You’ve Lost It) by Sandy Allgeier (3 1/2 stars/3 reviews) Nonfiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
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OverDrive is giving away a Sony Pocket Edition ereader to celebrate National Library Week. The contest is easy to enter (read the details on the OverDrive blog) and ends on April 15, 2011 at 8 PM EST.
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A couple of paid reading ideas:
Heart of a Knight by Barbara Samuel (4 1/2 stars/10 reviews) is an historical romance that has just made it onto the Kindle bestsellers list in the last few days. $0.99.
Britain, 1351. After an arduous exile to flee the darkness and danger sweeping her lands, Lady Elizabeth D’Auvers returns home to Woodell Castle, yearning only for her looms and her quiet life. To her astonishment, she finds the castle and farmlands thriving, thanks to Lord Thomas of Roxburgh, a knight errant whose size and strength offer protection to Elizabeth’s castle and its people.
Lord Thomas’s warm gaze makes Elizabeth’s flesh burn with unaccustomed fire, and her defenses crumble, leaving her heart as vulnerable as her trembling body. Yet chilling thoughts trouble her mind. For there is something dark and mysterious about this man—a secret that makes him as forbidden to desire as he is impossible to resist.
Godchild by Vincent Zandri (4 1/2 stars/13 reviews) Thriller. Another recent addition to the Kindle bestsellers list. $0.99.
Prison-warden-turned-P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi understands the criminal mind. And he knows what it takes to break a man. His own life came apart the day a black Buick broadsided his car–and his wife died horrifically in the seat beside him.
Years later, on the eve of his second marriage, Marconi catches a split-second glimpse of the driver who killed his wife. Suddenly hurtled back into the past, he is determined to take one last shot at hunting him down. That is, until he is offered a job he can’t refuse: to bust a beautiful woman out of a hellish Mexican prison. Now Keeper’s chase through Mexico follows a trail of bodies and lies back home: to the truth about a woman on the run, to a man sitting behind the wheel of a black Buick, and to a story that someone will kill to bury….
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Kobo Spin to Win contest no comments
Kobo has a new contest going on. Prizes in the Spin to Win contest include Kobo discount coupons (10% – 50% off), Kobo gift cards, 15 Kobo Wi-Fi ereaders and a grand prize of a vacation package at a Fairmont Hotel of the winner’s choice. No purchase is necessary and the contest will end on March 20, 2011. You can see all of the details and enter at Kobo.
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Amazon Kindle Facebook giveaway no comments
Amazon is giving away 10 Kindle 3G ereaders at its Kindle Facebook page. The sweepstakes will end on Mar. 31, 2011. To enter you need to become a fan — by clicking the “Like” button on the Kindle Facebook page, which will take you to the sweepstakes entry page.
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