The eBook Reader Blog

Someone sent an email yesterday asking what’s the best ebook reader for reading ebooks from public libraries and I thought that would be a good topic for a blog post. There are a few different library ebook services, including OverDrive, CloudLibrary, and Axis 360, but the most popular one is OverDrive. Personally I’ve only used […]

Here’s an unusual promotion. If you’re an Amazon Prime member you can get a $3 Amazon credit just for borrowing an ebook or magazine through Prime Reading, which takes about 5 seconds and doesn’t cost extra so it’s an easy way to make $3. More specifically, the promotion states that you have to “Borrow your […]

Once again Amazon has brought back their Kindle Unlimited promotion that’s basically an extended trial where you can get 3 months of Kindle Unlimited for $0.99. A Kindle Unlimited subscription normally costs $9.99 per month so it’s a good deal if you want to test the waters, so to speak. Kindle Unlimited members get access […]

Ever since Apple updated the iBooks app with the release of iOS 12, a lot of people have been voicing their complete and utter dislike of the new app, which is now called “Books” instead of iBooks. The main purpose of the update was clearly to try and sell people more ebooks—and Apple didn’t make […]

Why is that when you go to buy ebooks everything is separated into different genres, but then after you buy ebooks there’s no way to sort them by genre? Sure, you can use collections on ereaders like Kindles and Kobos but you have to go through and manually create a bunch of collections and then […]

Amazon has rolled out a new promotional offer where you can get a $5 ebook credit when you spend $20 on Kindle ebooks. It’s a limited time deal that’s valid until January 28th, 2019. Here’s the page at Amazon where you can activate the offer. You have to active the promotion to get the $5 […]

In case you missed it, Amazon put Kindle Unlimited subscriptions on sale right before Christmas, which is something they usually do a month earlier for Black Friday, but this year they’ve been doing things differently in regards to Kindle sales (I still can’t believe they never put the entry-level Kindle on sale for the holidays). […]

If you’re looking for a gift idea, don’t forget that most major ebook stores have the option to give ebooks as gifts. One of the benefits of giving an ebook as a gift is you don’t have to go pick it up or wait for it to ship; ebooks get delivered wirelessly in just a […]