ZDNet’s Jason Perlow has done a thorough job lining up the various e-reading apps available for the iPad and iPhone. His review covers: Apple’s iBooks Amazon Kindle for iPad Barnes and Noble eReader Kobo Reader (which is also the Borders eReader and will soon be the Whitcoulls eReader for the iPad) Ibis Reader (this is [...]

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Since the announcement of the iPad, magazine publishers have been scrambling to turn their magazines digital. But there’s one problem: unlike books, which have seen a surge in digital sales,  the magazine industry has no standard format that publishers, e-reading device manufacturers and consumers can rally around. That looks set to change as an influential [...]

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Apple’s grip on the media business tightened this week with the release of its latest operating system update for the iPhone OS4. And as its mobile product line expands, its operating system has dropped the “Phone” from its name to become iOS4. iOS4 is a free upgrade for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads. It’s rumoured [...]

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Along with the opening today of its online ebook store, Whitcoulls has launched the Kobo dedicated eReader, giving Kiwis their first retail experience of an e-Ink ebook reader. The Kobo eReader will be stocked in about 30 of Whitcoulls’ stores as well as being for sale online at whitcoulls.co.nz. It sells for NZ$295 including GST which [...]

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New Zealand’s largest book chain Whitcoulls today launched the country’s first commercial ebook store. It’s the fruit of an investment by Whitcoulls’ parent, the Red Group, which late last year took a stake in Canadian ebook operation Kobo Books. Whitcoulls’ ebook store carries the ‘Whitcoulls’ brand but is powered by Kobo and integrated into Whitcoulls’ [...]

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