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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 Sony Reader device through its own eBook Store.
Online retailer Amazon.com continues to push its Kindle ebook platform: hot on the heels of announcing the Kindle DX, the company has announced that it has optimized its online Kindle Store so that it works seamlessly with its free Kindle for iPhone application. Now iPhone users can follow “Get Books” links from within the Kindle store and get easy access to more than 250,000 book titles, all specially formatted for the iPhone and iPod touch display.
Amazon’s Kindle reader for iPhone has proven to be a resounding success…at least for folks who have a Kindle. Now, Amazon looks to be increasing its presence in both the iPhone market and the broader ebook market by acquiring Lexcycle, makers of the popular iPhone ebook application Stanza. Unlike the Kindle, Stanza supports ebooks published in the open epub format from the International Digital Publishing Forum; over 100,000 books and periodicals are compatible with Stanza—and Lexcycle also offers desktop versions of its Stanza reader.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Lexcycle says it is not planning any changes to Stanza as a result of the acquisition.
Amazon.com gave its Kindle ebook business a nice shot in the arm when it released a free Kindle reader application for the Apple iPhone earlier this month. Now, Fictionwise is looking to tap furtehr into the mobile reading market with a beta version of its eReader application for BlackBerry—and the company doesn’t plan to stop there, saying its next target platforms are Google’s Android and Linux. The BlackBerry version of eReader joins an existing version for the iPhone, and shoud run on any BlackBerry device released in the last few years.
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