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ebooks

Borders Australia to start selling ebooks and readers.

March 9, 2010

Blair Speedy at the Australian reports that Redgroup Retail, which owns both Borders and Angus & Robertson, will roll out the Kobo platform, developed by Canadian book chain Indigo, within the next month or so. Kobo books can be read on a range of devices, including phones and laptops. Overall there’s quite a lot of [...]

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PhoneBook

November 26, 2009

I can’t decide whether I love this or hate it.

[via walkingpaper]
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Children’s stories written for the iPhone

August 16, 2008

Aya Karpinska has written a series of illustrated short stories for children that are designed to be read on an iPhone and take advantage of the zoom and panning functions. Great idea. If you don’t have an iPhone, you can watch a demo video or view an in-browser version.

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eBooks on the iPhone

July 17, 2008

Back in the days before ReadingHacks.com existed, I suggested that the Amazon Kindle might turn out to be the tipping point for ebooks. By this I meant that having the backing of a well established bookstore like Amazon might make ebooks a bigger deal in the mainstream. My biggest concern has always been the cost. [...]

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Free ebooks can increase sales of hard copies, just ask Neil Gaiman

July 13, 2008

A while ago, Neil Gaiman’s publishers made his wonderful book American Gods available as a free ebook for a limited time. They have now collated sales figures for the period of the promotion and sales were up during that time. Read Gaiman’s own comments about this.
On the same topic, Cory Doctorow is a big fan of [...]

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Free Kindle books

July 9, 2008

Wondering where to get your hands on some free ebooks for your shiny new Amazon Kindle?
Gizo recently pointed me at the post Free books for your amazon kindle, over at 43folders.
I have not had a chance to explore the sites listed in the article but will certainly report back when I do.
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Nick Hornby on ebooks

July 6, 2008

Nick Hornby has written his thoughts on ebooks at the Penguin blog.
He makes some points that are fairly obvious and have been talked about plenty of times – like the high cost of an ebook reader, and the fact that people are quite attached to physical books in a way they were never attached to [...]

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