A new venture, Vodafone Books on Mobile, has launched in the UK with global ambitions to bring books to mobile phone users. The initial offering centres around audio books but the company behind it sees text-based ebooks as an expanding part of their offering as mobile screens improve.
The service is a partnership between Vodafone and [...]

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Sony has added a second option to its ebook reader line-up with the announcement of the PRS 700, slated for late November release in the US. No word on any international releases yet.
Among the new features of the PRS 700 is a touch screen with a stylus and on-screen QWERTY keyboard, the ability to annotate [...]

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Anyone who has tried to create an ebook from a source that uses sidebars, tables and other layout devices will know that the current ebook formats such as .epub, mobipocket, etc can become very challenging and even look plain ugly. They’re fine for long slabs of text with occasional pictures and headings, but give them [...]

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If you’ve been involved in the business of selling books, you’ll really relate to this YouTube video clip. Enjoy!
 

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In spite of another round of ebook hype prompted by Amazon’s Kindle launch late last year, the signs are not good for 2008 to be the Year of the eBook. One of the best indicators I found was here, at CeBIT, the world’s biggest ICT trade show which runs 4-9 March in Hannover, Germany. A [...]

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