After enduring months of delays to overcome several legal and technical hurdles, Google has finally jumped into the ebook business by launching Google eBooks.
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Holiday eReader Sales Updates
This is a quick note to mention that a couple of really good deals have been added to the Holiday eReader Sales page. Best Buy has the older Sony Pocket, the PRS-300, marked down to $99. And they have it in all three colors: pink, blue, and silver. PocketBook has cut prices on the PocketBook […]
Bluefire App Can Read Library eBooks for iPhone and iPad
The Bluefire Reader app for iPad and iPhone has just been updated to add support for reading borrowed library ebooks through the Overdrive service. Bluefire Reader is a free app that supports EPUB and PDF file formats, including Adobe DRM protected EPUB and PDF files. Here’s the download link for the app on iTunes. And […]
The iPad Comes to Nine More Countries on Friday
Apple issued a press release this morning announcing that nine more countries have been added to the iPad’s accepted list. The press release states that people in the countries listed below can buy all models of the Apple iPad starting this Friday, July 23rd from Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Oddly, it does […]
The Apple iPad Gets a Firmware Update
As far as first-generation electronic gadgets are concerned, the Apple iPad has experienced a relatively smooth launch up till now. No major issues or bugs or faulty parts—new iPhone owners haven’t been so lucky. The iPad’s main issue has been with Wi-Fi. While many iPad owners haven’t experienced any issues using Wi-Fi, there’s been a […]
The Apple iBookstore Comes to Canada
Up until July 1st, Canada Day ironically (aka Dominion Day for all you anti-conformists out there), the Apple iBookstore was available for download in Canada, but the selection of books was limited to free classic ebooks in the public domain. Now, several major publishers are selling titles in Canada on the iBookstore, including Hachette, HarperCollins […]
How to Buy an iPad and Choose the Best Model
iBooks PDF Support Needs Work; Apple Quick To Update Misinformation
There’s an interesting article over at TUAW about how Apple lists features for the PDF support of iBooks that it doesn’t have, like highlighting and being able to flip pages like with ebooks. There are some other features lacking in iBooks PDF support as well: you can’t add notes or use the built-in dictionary to […]