A couple of weeks ago, the publishing industry’s EPUB3 specification was finally signed off. This was the cue for device makers and e-reading app developers to build it into their next releases and for publishers to start work on enhanced ebooks. Now Amazon has responded with its own next generation ebook format, Kindle Format 8 (KF8), complicating [...]
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EPUB3 ready to go, now Amazon responds with Kindle Format 8
October 25th, 2011 · 17 Comments
Tags: Amazon · ebook formats · ebook production · ePub · Kindle
Review: Bluefire eReader app spells great news for indies
October 11th, 2010 · 6 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Adobe · ebook formats · ebook readers · ebook stores · ePub
Bezos: Ebooks will outsell paperbacks in less than a year
July 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Kindle boss Jeff Bezos told USA Today that he expects Kindle ebook unit sales to exceed paperback sales on Amazon within 9-12 months. Says Bezos about the speed of ebook take-up, “It stuns me. People forget that the Kindle is only 33 months old.” Bezos is busy on the talking circuit following the announcement of [...]
