Kobo Touch $69.99 at Buy.com today

 

Buy.com is selling the black version of the Kobo Touch With Offers for $69.99 on Cyber Monday.

(Credit: Kobo)

It was Barnes & Noble's turn on Black Friday. Now it's Kobo's turn on Cyber Monday.

Last week, Barnes & Noble offered up a limited edition of the Nook Simple Touch for $79. Now Kobo's teamed up with Buy.com to sell the new ad-supported Kobo Touch With Offers for $69.99 in a one-day sale.

That's a $30 price cut and a good deal on a solid touch-screen e-reader. (Read our full review here).

Like the Kindle Touch With Special Offers, the Kobo Touch With Offers features an advertisement just at the bottom of the home screen, as well as a screensaver ad when it's shut down or in sleep mode. Currently, the $99 Nook Simple Touch is the only ad-free touch-screen e-reader for under $100.

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Kobo Touch $69.99 at Buy.com today
David Carnoy
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:36:41 GMT

Amazon Kindle Fire review

 

It seems like ages since Amazon introduced us to the $199 Fire at a hectic New York City event, but in truth that was only about six weeks ago. Maybe our perception of time is warped because we've been hearing talk about this 7-inch Android tablet for months now. Maybe it's because Amazon launching a tablet seemed like such a natural thing to do after Barnes & Noble paved the way with its Nook Color. Or, maybe it's just because the gadget Amazon shipped looks nigh-identical to the 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook that we've had for, well, ages.
For whatever the reason, what Amazon has delivered is a device that is intimately familiar yet mysterious -- a simple, minimalistic exterior design hiding a flashy, seemingly quite trick customization that's sitting atop a decidedly ho-hum Android Gingerbread build. Our questions leading up to this review were many: How will it handle sideloading? Are the battery life and performance better than the PlayBook? Can a tablet that costs two hundred bucks stand a chance against those that cost two and three times as much? C'mon baby, click on through to find out.

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Tim Stevens
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:00:00 GMT

Kobo unveils $99 ad-supported e-reader

 

The Kobo Touch with Offers costs $99.

(Credit: Kobo)

Borrowing a page from Amazon's playbook, Kobo has quietly launched an ad-supported e-book reader.

The Kobo Touch with Offers features a 6-inch E-ink touch screen, Wi-Fi, and a $99 price tag--a $30 price reduction from the regular model. The only difference, Kobo explains, is that the device's screen will feature an advertisement at the bottom of the home screen, as well as a screensaver ad when it's shut down or in sleep mode.

"Kobo Touch with Offers presents you with sponsored screens and valuable offers when your device is powered off or in sleep mode, and in other discreet places that are always outside of the reading experience, like on the bottom of your home screen," the company explains. "Kobo Touch with Offers is currently available to customers in the United States in black only. Other than that, Kobo Touch with Offers offers the same reading experience as the popular Kobo Touch eReader."

The Kobo Touch with Offers is expected to ship to consumers in two to three weeks.

Amazon got the ball rolling in April when it announced it would begin shipping Kindle with Special Offers --a new ad-supported version of its popular e-reader for $114 or $25 less than the standard Wi-Fi-only Kindle.

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Kobo unveils $99 ad-supported e-reader
Steven Musil
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:05:26 GMT