Over the years I’ve come across dozens and dozens of articles and emails and forum posts about how great the ePub ebook format is and how much better it is than other formats, especially Amazon’s proprietary Kindle format. People think that Amazon should switch to using ePub format because it is more “open” and everyone […]
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Read an E-Book Week Runs From March 3rd to March 9th
Tomorrow the annual Read an E-Book Week kicks off where publishers and authors offer thousands of free and discounted ebooks to help promote digital reading around the globe. Read an E-Book Week is supported by a number of publishers and authors that want to expand the reach and visibility of ebooks, making this time of […]
Convert Movies and TV Shows Into eBooks Using Storyboard
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. Have you ever had the desire to read movies and TV shows on your ereader? That’s the gist of Storyboard, which takes a video and converts it into a PDF file with images and subtitles. Storyboard works by taking still images of an inputted video file whenever […]
How to Remove Adobe DRM From ePub and PDF eBooks
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about how to remove DRM from Kindle ebooks in four easy steps. This time around I’ve got a tutorial on how to easily remove Adobe DRM from ePub and PDF ebooks. All you have to do is install Adobe Digital Editions on your computer, along with […]
How to Remove DRM From Kindle eBooks in 4 Easy Steps
If you’ve ever bought an ebook from Amazon, you’ve likely heard that it comes with Amazon’s proprietary DRM that locks it into the Kindle platform (for more info about DRM see The eBook DRM Guide). The only way to read Amazon’s ebooks on a non-Kindle device or app is to remove the DRM. This may […]
Total Boox Allows Users to Pay for an eBook in Segments – Pay for Only What You Read
Here’s an interesting new concept. An Israel-based company called Total Boox is launching a new platform for ebook reading and distributing in 2013 that allows people to pay only for the parts of an ebook that they actually read. Instead of the “buy now, read later” approach of today’s ebookstores, Total Boox aims to let […]
Walmart, Costco, Target and Other Retailers to Start Selling eBooks?
Last week Publishers Weekly posted an interesting article about how ebooks could be coming to grocery stores, drug stores, and other mass-market retailers in as little as six to eight months, maybe sooner. At this stage in ebook evolution it still seems a bit odd to buy ebooks from stores like Walmart and Walgreens, but […]
Holiday Discounts for eBooks From Kobo Books
Below you will find some sales and discount codes for ebooks from Kobo.com. Make sure to check the dates because these are limited time offers and a couple of them aren’t valid for a few more days. Save 50% on Bestsellers (Valid in UK, AU, NZ) Landing Page: Bestselling eBooks at 50% off Run: December […]