Amazon Kindle officially the best selling product on Amazon.com

Amazon's Kindle is officially the best selling product on the website, reports Engadget.

Despite the fact that there's more competition than ever in the e-reader category, Kindle is Amazon's top selling product across all categories so far for the holiday buying crowd.

And unlike the Barnes and Noble Nook, Amazon has foreseen how big the potential sales could be, and has enough stock to satisfy everyone who wants a Kindle. Which is better, market saturation or desire for a product that's hard to get your hands on? We'll see come holiday season.

Cheers,
Zach

Qualcomm's e-reader to have videogame controls?

Apparently Qualcomm's new reader could come with a snap-on game control. Right now it's merely in a non-functional proof-of-concept, but if it's coupled with that gorgeous color display, this reader could be an honest disruption to the Kindle kingdom.

With Apple looming with an announcement of their own netbook/tablet/ereader that could read books, surf the internet, play games, and be an actually computer, Qualcomm could be in trouble. Apple could take the crown again, doing to the e-reader business what they did to the smartphone platform--completely revolutionize it.

Exactly What I've Been Waiting For

What you see to the left of this post is what I believe to be not only the future of e-readers, but the future of technology as we know it. And it's happening. Soon.

2010 soon.

Wistron, a company known for its research and development of flexible e-ink displays, is developing a flexible e-reader (see left) to be released in 2010. Rumored to have bluetooth capability (presumably as an easier way to tranfer files from a computer), HSDPA and GSM/EDGE for on-the-go downloads, microSD and SMS (SMS?!), this device looks like it could really be a game changer not only for e-readers but for technology in general. It won't be long until we're all grabbing our beeper-shaped Readius e-readers, tugging at a plastic end and pulling out a malleable e-ink displays to read out daily newspapers (downloaded automatically that morning) and magazines. Not to mention textbooks for students, all in a device that's the size of your cellphone and can have a bendable e-ink display that pulls out a good 9" or 10". The ability to have a display that can be much larger than the actual device is what will shoot the Readius e-reader into the hall of fame of e-readers.

Cheers,
Zach

Demand for nook pushing pre-orders into December

Want to get a nook for the holidays? Better act fast--pre-orders for Barnes and Noble's "Kindle-killer" nook are getting pushed into December due to overwhelming amounts of orders.

Many people are waiting for a review unit to show up in B&N stores, or even someone to give a comprehensive review online. Apparently the lack of review units aren't stopping pre-orders. Pretty powerful statement being made to Amazon right now.

Eagerly looking forward to how the nook sells.

Cheers,
Zach

(source post, Gizmodo, here.)