The following article was published in the No. 1, 2011 edition of News on Bookselling, the official journal of the Australian Booksellers Association. Since it was written (mid February), another ebookstore with plans to offer its system to Aussie booksellers has launched. I’ve added a footnote to the original story.   By Martin Taylor Booksellers [...]

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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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It looks like Kiwi Christmas shoppers will be spoilt for choice this year on the ebook reading front. The much-delayed Sony ebook readers will ship sometime in October, according to an NBR report. This follows the arrival of the also-much-delayed Kindle last month. And unlike the Kindle, which shipped to Australian buyers almost a year [...]

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