It looks like literature finally had its Aha! moment, now that the book world is recognizing electronic reading as a viable publishing venture.
The perk of the e-reader aside from easily concealing your embarrassing Dan Brown fandom? Free books. The Web is full of classic works inside the public domain, and it’s easy to take advantage of the thousands of free titles with most devices. Here’s a Techland ‘how-to’ in updating that reading queue for free.
Pandigital’s second stab at a color e-book reader running on the Android platform will hit stores next month at a price of just under $200.
Barnes & Noble has announced that its Nook e-reader software is now available as a free iPhone app. The company has also updated its iPad app to include “in-app content rating and other improvements,” as well as rebranding its PC desktop software as “Nook for PC.”
Barnes & Noble created a solid contender for essential e-book status when they launched the Nook last year. More compelling the e-reader hardware is the breadth of the library they’re able to make available. It’s about one million books! Now, Android users will be able to access all of that literary goodness on the smartphone [...]
Amazon has hammered out a deal with The Wylie Agency to offer 20 of its Odyssey Editions books exclusively on the Kindle e-book platform for two years.
And with that, Amazon’s Kindle platform slowly oozes its way into another crop of smartphone handsets. Android owners (version 1.6 and higher) can now download the Kindle app from the Android Market and synchronize books across all the other Kindle-infused gadgets strewn about the home.
That was quick. In response to Barnes & Noble dropping the price of its 3G-enabled Nook to $199 and announcing a Wi-Fi version at $149, Amazon dropped the price of its 3G-enabled Kindle e-book reader to $189.
Barnes & Noble has announced a $60 price reduction for its 3G-enabled Nook e-book reader, bringing the current price to just $199. The company also announced a Wi-Fi version today that’s selling for $149 and expected to start shipping out this week.
Hold the phone. Pandigital’s 7-inch “Novel” eBook reader has a color screen, full web browser, and access to Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore. I like it. It’s different. Novel, if you will.
Can’t wait for the latest installment of a zombified Jane Austen world? Don’t.
