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Entries from March 2010

Preview of iPad ebook apps from Kobo, Amazon

March 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Kobo has just posted this video (see below) of its near-complete ebook reading app for Apple’s iPad. Kobo on iPad from Kobo on Vimeo. According to the Kobo blog, they’ve been hard at work on this since the iPad was announced two months ago. What was intended to be a slight tweaking of their iPhone [...]

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Tags: Amazon · Apple · Kindle · iPad · kobo · news

Kobo introduces ebook reader ahead of ANZ launch

March 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Kobo Books, which launches its ebook store in Australia and New Zealand in a couple of months, has just announced its own ebook reader. The Kobo eReader is a nice-looking but bare-bones device (no wireless or mobile web connection, touch screen, colour or other fancy bits). At US$149, the Kobo eReader is pretty well priced, [...]

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Tags: ebook readers · kobo · news

Apple announces iPad ship dates, Penguin already showing off iPad ebooks

March 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Apple just announced that the iPad will ship in the US on 3 April with internet pre-orders open from 12 March. It will then be available in late April in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, Apple says. No word yet on whether the Aussies will be sending some of [...]

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Tags: Apple · iPad · tablets