Just days after the launch of Apple’s iPad, it might be time for starry-eyed publishers to take a reality check from their iPad infatuations. Apple has just made the content business much harder. The reason is an escalation in Apple’s long-running battle with Adobe over its Flash platform. Apple’s latest move bans any content generated [...]

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Kobo has just posted this video (see below) of its near-complete ebook reading app for Apple’s iPad. Kobo on iPad from Kobo on Vimeo. According to the Kobo blog, they’ve been hard at work on this since the iPad was announced two months ago. What was intended to be a slight tweaking of their iPhone [...]

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Kobo Books, which launches its ebook store in Australia and New Zealand in a couple of months, has just announced its own ebook reader. The Kobo eReader is a nice-looking but bare-bones device (no wireless or mobile web connection, touch screen, colour or other fancy bits). At US$149, the Kobo eReader is pretty well priced, [...]

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Until this week, you needed a US business address to get your ebooks into Amazon’s Kindle store via their self-service Digital Text Platform (DTP). They’ve now extended this to international publishers and authors for books published in English, French and German. It’s aimed at the small publisher and self-publisher market with fairly minimal requirements. Here’s [...]

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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 [...]

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