I suppose I should add to the noise and write about Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 release. But before I do, I should clarify: it’s not actually a new phone, it’s just an operating system upgrade. And it’s only for developers at this stage, is still full of bugs, and won’t ship to users until later [...]

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Rumours started circulating a week or two ago that Amazon was planning to make its Kindle-formatted books available on Apple’s iPhone. Well, a week’s a long time and Amazon today releases its Kindle reader application for the iPhone. Like Stanza and eReader, this is a free download from the iPhone App Store. But unlike Stanza, [...]

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A couple of days ago, I previewed the Shortcovers ebook service from Canadian bookseller Indigo. The service is now live and worth taking a look at. I checked Shortcovers out using its iPhone/iPod Touch reader app which works pretty well. Part of the Shortcovers proposition is its emphasis on lots of short content – under [...]

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The announcement of a major push into ebook selling by Canadian book chain Indigo might carry a lesson for other international markets such as New Zealand. Indigo is about to launch its Shortcovers service, a wireless ebook download service aimed squarely at readers using the new smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone, the RIM Blackberry and [...]

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An announcement with big potential for the ebook industry has just come out of Adobe. They’ve released a software developer kit (SDK) that will allow developers to bring to mobile devices the capability to download, read and manage ebooks in the Adobe PDF format. Among the early licensees are Lexcycle, the developer of iPhone ebook [...]

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