This is my first post of 2010, just back from three weeks away at the beach and proving again that sunshine and sand are no barrier to enjoying a great ebook or three.
The big event while I was absent was the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week and it delivered on its promise [...]

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Canadian ebook store Shortcovers has changed its name to Kobo, an anagram for “book”, and revamped its online store www.kobobooks.com as part of its plan to expand its international coverage.
[Update: 16 Dec, 11:47am. REDgroup which has Australian and New Zealand book chains A&R, Whitcoulls and Borders ANZ, is a minority investor in the new company [...]

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The Android vs iPhone wars are at an interesting point. Apple is making huge strides with its early-mover advantage while Android’s much-hyped but slow-burning start tests the nerves of developers and supporters.
Is this going to be Mac vs PC in reverse? Surely, much as we love the wonderful things Apple is doing, we don’t want [...]

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A survey shows that ebook usage on smartphones  jumped an impressive 300% in the four months from April to July 2009.
The data comes from Flurry, a company that tracks usage of smartphone apps in a similar way to how Google tracks website metrics with its Analytics product.  The data shows active usage in the ebook [...]

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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, for [...]

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