Amazon today completely overhauled its entire Kindle e-reader and tablet lineup, introducing the new Kindle Fire HD and Paperwhite and dropping the price of the Kindle and Kindle Fire, among other things. This is the most aggressive update to the Kindle lineup we’ve seen yet, and it establishes Amazon as a clear leader when it comes to e-readers and a legitimate rival [...]
Apple has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Government Printing Office to make federal ebooks available on iTunes. With deal with Apple may be new, but you can buy ebooks from the government publisher on most other ereader platforms, including Google and Barnes & Noble. It’s great that the government is making more of its materials available. For instance, [...]
Today, the interactive ebook experts at Inkling finally brought the same digital reading experience they crafted for iPad and the web to the iPhone. The Inkling mobile phone app is available in the Apple App Store for free right now with some sample chapters that demonstrate how the technology and content work. This is of course the very same Inkling [...]
You no longer need a Nook ereader to absorb ebooks from Barnes & Noble’s digital library; the publisher just launched a web-based reader for PC and Mac browsers. Start using it and you’ll get six free books, too. Barnes & Noble announced the new site called “Nook for Web” (creative name, isn’t it?) on its official blog this morning. The [...]
Comic books are getting the full ereader treatment, one platform at a time. A couple of weeks ago, the Kindle iPad app received support for comic books and a hefty selection of comics and graphic novels to buy, and now Barnes & Noble has announced that Nook Color and Tablet owners have access to DC Comics’ library of graphic novels. [...]
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