Anyone who has tried to create an ebook from a source that uses sidebars, tables and other layout devices will know that the current ebook formats such as .epub, mobipocket, etc can become very challenging and even look plain ugly. They’re fine for long slabs of text with occasional pictures and headings, but give them [...]

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[UPDATE 23 June 2010: I've posted a more recent survey of iPhone and iPad reader apps which you might want to check out.] Whatever Steve Jobs’ view of reading books on his iPhone, it seems just about everyone else with an interest in gadgets and reading wants to see the iPhone kitted out as the [...]

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Here’s a quick video that shows how the iPhone works as a digital publication reader. In this case, the publication is a magazine rather than a book and it uses the Texterity system which was originally ported to the iPhone in July 2007. Texterity and Zinio (also due for release on the iPhone) are a [...]

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Sony’s PRS-505 ebook reader can now read ebooks produced using the open ePub format giving this year-old, industry-endorsed standard a major boost. The PRS-505 is the first dedicated ebook reader to announce this support. The same upgrade, available to existing users via a firware upgrade, will also provide better support for the PDF format by [...]

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Sony is seeing “huge interest” from schools in its eReader electronic book reader, according to Stan Glasgow, the president and COO of Sony Electronics, the unit which sells all of the company’s non-Playstation electronics products in the US. It’s a further sign that the education market might be a bigger early player in the ebook [...]

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