Google has confirmed that it plans a “June or July” launch for its long-signalled foray into the ebook selling business. Called Google Editions, it introduces a major new competitor into… Read more >
May 5, 2010 ebook formats, Google, Google Editions, news 7 Read more >
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… Read more >
German company txtr has just launched the first iPhone ebook reading application to support the ePub open ebook format along with Adobe’s digital rights management. Sounds like more than a… Read more >
While commercial publishers work on their project to bring 1000 Great New Zealand ebooks to market, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) has been quietly working to convert its… Read more >
Sony has raised the ebook reader game a notch with a host of announcements covering new e-reader devices, further support for the open ePub format, and content partnerships. The new… Read more >
August 26, 2009 ebook formats, ebook readers, news 0 Read more >
Amazon’s move to pull copies of George Orwell’s 1984 novel without warning from Kindles has opened it up to attack from civil libertarians and others concerned about the Big Brother… Read more >
July 28, 2009 analysis, bookselling, business, ebook formats, news 1 Read more >
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… Read more >
March 5, 2009 bookselling, ebook formats, ebook readers, iphone, smartphones 2 Read more >
Here’s a very informative Q&A with Mark Coker, founder and CEO of the d-i-y (do-it-yourself) ebook publishing site Smashwords. Smashwords launched about a year ago as a way for self-publishing… Read more >
March 2, 2009 bookselling, business, ebook formats 1 Read more >
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… Read more >
February 19, 2009 ebook formats, ebook readers, iphone, smartphones 0 Read more >
Here’s an interesting piece from blogger Martyn Daniels looking at what we can learn from the Keitai cellphone novel, a uniquely Japanese phenomenon that’s seen many of its bestsellers begin… Read more >
February 1, 2009 business, ebook formats, iphone 0 Read more >