I’ve just spotted a couple of children’s picture books in the iPhone App Store, including a title from the popular Milly Molly series. They’re the first fruits of a new technology called QBook from New Zealand company Kiwa Media that’s been under development for the past year.
Billed as “the world’s first touch-enabled read-along colour story [...]

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German company txtr has just launched the first iPhone ebook reading application to support the ePub open ebook format along with Adobe’s digital rights management.
Sounds like more than a mouthful but this is very good news for ebook development. It potentially opens up the important iPhone channel to content from major commercial publishers who, love [...]

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While commercial publishers work on their project to bring 1000 Great New Zealand ebooks to market, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) has been quietly working to convert its collection to free downloadable ebooks — 1150 of them available right now.
The NZETC is afilliated to Victoria University in Wellington and has been busy digitising works [...]

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Sony has raised the ebook reader game a notch with a host of announcements covering new e-reader devices, further support for the open ePub format, and content partnerships.
The new hardware announced today was the Sony Reader Daily Edition, a larger format (18 cm/7-inches wide) reader with wireless connectivity that Sony is clearly hoping will provide [...]

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Amazon’s move to pull copies of George Orwell’s 1984 novel without warning from Kindles has opened it up to attack from civil libertarians and others concerned about the Big Brother implications. But a civil liberties argument is also being used to challenge the hated Digital Rights Management system that underpins the Kindle. And in a [...]

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