It’s time for another weekly roundup of 10 free highly-rated Kindle ebooks to get your Monday off to a good start. Please note that the free Kindle ebooks listed below are free as of August 29th, 2016. Most of these titles are free for a limited time only and will expire in a few days […]
10 Free Kobo eBooks – August 28th
Below is a roundup of 10 free ebooks from Kobo.com. Last month I posted a similar list now that Kobo has made their free ebook section better so let’s do it again. You can find more via the free ebook section on Kobo’s website. Note that the ebooks below are free as of August 28th, […]
Top Kindle Book Deals of 2016 and Other Sales
Here lately Amazon has been offering 1-day only sales on Kindle books, and today they’re having another sale for the Top Kindle Books of 2016. Usually the list of books on sale is pretty short but this time around they’ve got 49 Kindle books on sale as part of the Gold Box Deal of the […]
Does Anyone Actually Use Cloud Readers?
A few years ago a number cloud readers started cropping up. They were designed to allow users to read ebooks online using a web browser. Personally I never understood the purpose of using a cloud reader instead of an app. Why would anyone want to read using a web browser rather than using a dedicated […]
Smashwords Adds Author Alerts for New Releases
Yesterday Smashwords introduced a new author alerts feature called Smashwords Alerts. It’s basically a new way for readers to subscribe to their favorite authors to get notified about new releases. It’s similar to Amazon’s author alerts using Amazon Follow. If you’ve already favorited authors at Smashwords then you will automatically receive an alert when they […]
Amazon Introduces the Kindle Reading Fund (Video)
Yesterday Amazon introduced the Kindle Reading Fund program to help make ebooks more accessible to people and various organizations in different parts of the world that may not otherwise have easy access to digital reading materials. The Reading Fund is setup to donate Kindle ereaders, Fire tablets and Kindle ebooks to further engage digital reading […]
New Kindle in Motion Feature Adds Animations to eBooks (Video)
Amazon has started rolling out a new enhanced formatting feature for Kindle books called Kindle in Motion that adds animations and video features to the reading experience. Amazon hasn’t announced the new feature yet, and that’s probably because it’s currently only available on 7 titles in the entire Kindle Store. A few romance ebooks are […]
When Will E Ink eReaders Start Using Flexible Plastic Displays?
A lot of people were hoping that the new Kobo Aura One would come with an E Ink screen that uses a plastic-based substrate instead of glass, but unfortunately that’s not the case. So when will ebook readers start using plastic screens? Generally when you think of plastic you think of cheaper quality but when […]