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Posted on February 1st, 2012 by Nathan
As ebooks continue to evolve, publishers and authors are coming up with new ways to add enhanced content to them, such as audio and video and other potentially distracting goodies.
A Game of Thrones, the first book in George Martin’s epic A Song of Fire and Ice series, is now available as an enhanced ebook, but only in the UK for some reason.
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Posted on November 10th, 2011 by Nathan
Here’s a roundup on ebook coupon codes for Kobo, eBooks.com, eHarlequin, and Carina Press. As usual not all publishers allow discounts on ebooks so these codes will work on non-agency ebooks only.
Agency ebooks include any titles from the following publishers: Random House, Penguin, Time Warner, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster.
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Posted on November 2nd, 2011 by Nathan
Yesterday marked the launch of Google eBooks in Canada, giving Canadian readers access to hundreds of thousands of titles from publishers like Random House, McClelland & Stewart, Douglas & McIntyre, House of Anansi, Dundurn, and others.
Google’s two million public domain ebooks are included too, or course. Google also partnered with the Campus eBookstore and McNally Robinson, making it possible for readers to download Google eBooks through them as well.
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Posted on October 20th, 2011 by Nathan
Below are some discounts codes for ebooks, etextbooks, and the new Kobo Vox ereader.
Don’t forget the daily deals too, no coupons required. Amazon offers a discounted ebook each day here on their Kindle Daily Deals page. Barnes and Noble started doing the same thing, calling in the Nook Daily Find.
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Posted on October 7th, 2011 by Nathan
It turns out the Kindle coming to France rumor was true. Spot on, in fact.
Today Amazon launched the French Kindle Store, complete with a localized version of the Kindle 4 for €99, 35,000 French-language books, hundreds of graphic novels, over 4,000 free classic ebooks, and 825,000 ebooks in English and other languages.
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Posted on October 7th, 2011 by Nathan
Good news for ebook readers in the UK, Google announced yesterday that they’ve expanded their ebook store to the United Kingdom, making available several hundred thousand ebooks from major UK publishers like Random House, Hachette, and Penguin, not to mention Google’s two million free public domain ebooks.
Google uses EPUB and PDF for their ebooks, and Adobe DRM, so they are compatible with the vast majority of dedicated ebook readers, including the Sony Readers, Kobo ereaders, Cybook, iRiver Story, and others. Google has apps for the iPad and iPhone, and Android tablets and smartphones too.
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Posted on September 22nd, 2011 by Nathan
Here’s a list of public libraries that offer library cards to non-residents so that you can barrow library ebooks for a Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, or a multitude of other devices even if your local library doesn’t have ebooks or if it is lacking in selection and availability.
This list comes from the How To Get Free eBooks From Libraries Using Overdrive page. I updated the section about getting library cards for non-residents and added some more libraries to the list and thought it deserved its own post.
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Posted on September 19th, 2011 by Nathan
Amazon and OverDrive have quietly started rolling out Kindle ebook lending from public libraries, albeit in Beta.
Even though there hasn’t been any official announcement yet, some public libraries have already started lending ebooks for the Kindle. The image to the left hails from the Seattle Public Library; several other libraries are starting to list Kindle ebooks as well (not mine, though).
Update: Kindle Library eBooks are now officially available at over 11,000 libraries. Click here for the Kindle library ebook tutorial for complete directions and a video of how library ebooks work.
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Posted on August 16th, 2011 by Nathan
According to an article posted by The Register, Sony has scored a major deal to get the entire series of Harry Potter ebooks bundled onto its new upcoming ebook reader.
Not only that but Sony is paying JK Rowling millions for early electronic rights so that they can offer the Harry Potter ebooks exclusively on the Sony Readers, and will be the only way to get Harry Potter ebooks in 2011 (Harry Potter ebooks will be sold from the Pottermore website for all ereaders but not until 2012).
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Posted on July 25th, 2011 by Nathan
After selling a gazillion or so iDevices, Apple has suddenly decided that it doesn’t like the fact that people are buying ebooks from Amazon, B&N, Kobo and other competitors from within apps without giving them a 30% cut of the purchase.
So now all the ereading apps in the Apple iTunes store are getting updated to remove links and options for purchasing and browsing for ebooks from within the apps; user now have to use the Safari web browser to go to the ebookstore to make purchases from there.
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