The eBook Reader Blog

Next Issue, a joint venture formed by five US publishers—Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp. and Time Inc.—has just launched the Next Issue app for getting magazine subscriptions on the Apple iPad. The unique thing about Next Issues’s approach is you can either subscribe to a single issue of a magazine or pay a monthly [...]

Earlier in the week Google introduced a new news reading app called Google Currents. The app works with Android phones and tablets, as well as the Apple iPad and iPhone. Google Currents is a free app, as are the 180+ subscriptions that it offers from Google’s publishing partners. The Google Currents app is also setup [...]

Yesterday Zinio released their much-anticipated Android application that provides access to more than 20,000 magazines. It even comes with 24 free magazines, full issues too (actually I’m only seeing 22 but the press release says 24). The magazines are free until June 15th and include titles such as Cosmopolitan, ESPN The Magazine, Harvard Business Review, [...]

Before you buy a newspaper or magazine subscription for your Kindle, Nook, Sony, or other ebook reader, you should try using Calibre’s news fetch feature first. While reviewing the Graphite Kindle DX this past week, I download the Kindle Edition of USA Today and compared it to Calibre’s free version—the results were surprising. First off, [...]