At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, e-readers were still a venerable showcase, and manufactures were out in full force to show off upcoming devices. Though big names like Kindle and Nook still rule the e-reader market, convergence devices (i.e. tablets) featuring snazzy e-reader apps are biting at the industry’s heels. While big …
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Google Launches E-book Store, Mobile and Web-based Apps
Google is now officially competing with the likes of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple when it comes to selling electronic books.
Half-announced last week as “Google Editions,” the book store is now simply called “Google eBookstore.” See, they took “book store” and made it one word, then added a lowercase “e” to the front of it like …
Google Prepping "Editions" Electronic Book Store
Not content to watch Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple and others eat up all the revenue from sales of electronic books, Google is busy prepping its own digital book store called “Google Editions.”
The project is aiming to launch before the end of the year here in the U.S., Google’s Scott Dougall told the Wall Street Journal. And unlike …
Virtual Book Club: Five Great Social Reading Sites
Book lovers, take note: The best reading buddies might not frequent your local bookstores.
If you’re tired of testing book clubs that somehow always seem to be covers for mindless gossip, take your love of lit to the web. Social reading sites have become the new meeting place for book lovers, as comment threads double as circled …
Amazon Rolls Out eBook Gifting
In an effort to compete with the awkwardness of gift cards and donations to charity made in your name, Amazon has just announced that it’s “the first major bookstore to offer eBook gifting.”
Kindle books will now feature “Give as a Gift” links and will be e-mailed to recipients, who can then read the books on any device that …
E-Books Added To NYT Best-Seller List
It looks like literature finally had its Aha! moment, now that the book world is recognizing electronic reading as a viable publishing venture.
Yesterday, The New York Times announced it would begin publishing a best-seller list, perhaps the largest change to the Times’ book ranking rubric since it began in 1935. Earlier this year, …
Where to Find the Best Free E-Books
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.
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Two Minute Video: eReader Meets Android Tablet with the Pandigital Novel
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.
Specs include a 7-inch touchscreen with 800×600 resolution, 2GB of built-in storage expandable via SD cards up to 32GB in size, content from Barnes & Noble’s electronic book store complete …
Barnes & Noble ‘Nook’ e-Reader Software Now an iPhone App
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.”
The iPhone app features Barnes & Noble’s exclusive LendMe feature, …
Nook Comes to Android, Brings E-Lending with It
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 of their …
Amazon Inks Exclusivity Deal for Odyssey Editions Kindle Books
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.
The deal also marks the first time the books– from authors such as Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Hunter S. Thompson, and more–have been available electronically.
The …
Kindle App Hits Android Market
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.
Still no support for magazines or newspapers …