In a pre-holiday announcement on its blog, Google quietly pulled the plug on its attempt to help booksellers to sell ebooks: it announced the end of its reseller programme in which Google provided the technology for booksellers to sell ebooks from their own websites. The move affects partners in the US, Canada, the UK and [...]

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Australian readers will have few reasons not to join the ebook revolution this Christmas as a host of offerings come on stream. The past year has seen major strides in the key areas of local availability, price, ease of use and ease of purchase. “This Christmas will be a very important one for ebooks in [...]

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I just spotted this NZ$398 ‘iPad killer’ on the d-Shop.co.nz site. There are an increasing number of these low cost Android tablets coming onto the market. What caught my eye about this one was the very enthusiastic review by d-Shop.co.nz owner Don Hill. Okay, you can get your top-end Samsungs, iPads, Blackberry tablets and countless [...]

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This week saw the launch of an ebookstore from respected Aussie indie bookseller Readings in Melbourne. What is especially interesting about the Readings launch is that it’s a pure cloud-based service, ie you never download your ebooks, they stay permanently on the internet. Readings’ owner Mark Rubbo has been instrumental in getting this system up [...]

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A big hole in the eReading landscape has just been filled with the launch of independent ebook reading app Bluefire. The free iPad and iPhone app will read ePub formatted ebooks, including ebooks encrypted with Adobe’s ACS4 digital rights management. While there are already several eReading apps that will do this, what sets Bluefire apart is that [...]

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