Tag archive: eBook

Encouraged by the growing popularity of e-readers, the UK’s largest bookseller, Waterstone’s, has announced that it intends to launch its own device. Speaking to the BBC this week, the company’s managing director, James Daunt, said that the book giant hoped to unveil the e-reader within the next six months. “We in Waterstone's need to offer you a digital reader which is at least as good, and preferably substantially better, than that of… Read More

Michael Hart, the man who created what is considered to be the first ever e-book, has died aged 64. What the American came up with back in July, 1971 was a far cry from the slick experience you get with books on today’s e-readers, but his was the first step, and also resulted in the creation of Project Gutenberg. While attending the University of Illinois in the early 70s, Hart was given access to a mainframe computer. He thought long about what… Read More

Over the weekend both Kobo, an e-book retailer, and the Wall Street Journal stopped selling content through their iOS apps, along with Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Google Books. The changes suggest Apple is cracking down on direct sales in apps, which is against Apple's rules and further solidifies iTunes' iron grip on content distribution within the Apple ecosystem. Apple's rule in question came in February, when the… Read More

The fast-changing reading habits of Americans have been highlighted by a report issued on Thursday from the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The report shows that in February, e-book sales in the United States were the top selling format in all publishing categories for the first time ever. It wasn't so long ago that many people were turning their noses up at e-readers, claiming that it was more enjoyable to feel the weight of a… Read More

Kobo makes it possible for users to read its ebooks on any device anywhere in the world. Reading Life adds in a social aspect to the ebook experience. Users can learn about their reading habits from the Reading Life dashboard, achieve reading milestones and targets, unlock dozens of achievement-based badges, and check in with characters and places they encounter in special enhanced ebooks. Readers can also choose to… Read More

Today, Amazon announced that Kindle apps will be made available for Android and Windows based devices, further growing the family of devices which users can use to read books downloaded through the Kindle app. The new Kindle apps built for Android and Windows tablet computers will let customers “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”–on Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based… Read More

Amazon.com has been notoriously tight-lipped about the number of books it sells, and that secrecy has extended to Amazon Kindle e-reader devices and e-books: the company has never said now many Kindles it has sold, or how many e-books its customers buy. However, in an unusual move, Amazon is tooting the Kindle's horn a little bit, noting that its recent decision to cut the Kindle's price to $189 has significantly boosted Kindle… Read More

Giant bookseller Borders is finally flexing its muscles in the electronics books market: the company has just launched its own ebooks store to compete with the likes of Amazon.com, Sony, and Barnes & Noble…and eventually Google. And Borders isn't attacking the ebook market with a selection of electronic titles: the company is ready with a whole ecosystem, including dedicated electronic reader devices and apps for the iPhone,… Read More

Every January, a combination of rolled-over digits on the calendar year and the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas get techie brains spinning about what’s to come in the months ahead. In 2008, smartphones were the talk of the town. In 2009, ultra-thin TVs with LED backlighting stole the show. This time around for technology enthusiasts, it’s, well, any number of hot up and coming trends. From the much-talked-about 3D TV to… Read More

The Alex e-book reader is the first to run on Google’s Android operating system. The e-Book reader features a full color LCD-touch screen at the bottom of the device to go along with the standard e-ink screen up top.

Spring Design’s Alex eBook reader runs on Google’s Android operating system and features a full color LCD touch-screen.

California's Spring Design hs thrown its hat into the burgeoning market for ereaders with Alex, a new ebook reader based on Google's Android platform for mobile devices. Like other ebook readers, the Alex will use 6-inch EInk display to show printed content; unlike other ebook readers, the Alex will also sport a 3.5-inch touch-sensitive LCD display for browsing the Internet and for managing content displayed on the EInk paper-like… Read More

Last week, Barnes & Noble announced its own device-independent electronic bookstore, offering broader range of titles than that available to owners of Amazon's Kindle ebook reader…thanks in no small part to hundreds of thousands of public domain titles via the Google Books project. Not to be outdone, Sony has now announced its own deal with Google, making more than a million public domain books avaiable to owners of its… Read More