Last week OverDrive announced that the OverDrive Media Console app for Android is now officially available for the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablets directly from the Amazon appstore. Previously the app worked but it had to be sideloaded; now it is officially supported. With the OverDrive app you can download ebooks and audiobooks […]
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New Epub eBook Export Feature Added to Wikipedia Articles
Earlier in the week, Wikimedia announced that a new ebook export feature has been added to Wikipedia that allows users to select individual or multiple articles and export them as an EPUB file to read offline on ebook readers and other mobile devices. The ebooks can also be exported in PDF and OpenOffice formats. All […]
Amazon Launches India Kindle Store and Starts Selling Kindles in Croma Retail Stores
If you live in or just happen to be strolling through India you can now purchase Amazon’s E Ink Kindle from Croma retail stores throughout India and buy Kindle ebooks from Amazon’s new India-specific Kindle Store. The India Kindle Store is launching with over 1 million titles, including 70 of 100 Nielsen Bestsellers, and all […]
Two New Harry Potter eBooks Now Available at Pottermore
A couple of new ebook titles have been added to the Harry Potter collection this week over on the Pottermore website, the one and only place to buy official Harry Potter ebooks. The two new ebooks were written by J.K. Rowling herself and are Hogwarts Library Books that are apart of the Harry Potter universe. […]
Microsoft Patents Contextual Advertising in eBooks
Microsoft has a habit of collecting lots and lots of patents and then bullying anyone who steps their toes out of line into forking over lots and lots of cash. So it’s not much of a surprise that Microsoft was just granted a patent for contextual ads placed in ebooks, even though Microsoft decided to […]
Next Issue Launches Netflix-like Magazine Subscriptions for iPad
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 […]
Livrada Launching New Way to Give eBooks as Gifts
Now here’s an interesting new idea for giving ebooks as gifts. Starting July 15th, you’ll be able to walk into a Target retail store and pick up a Livrada ebook gift card. What’s interesting about the Livrada gift cards is that they are replicas of the actual book covers. What’s more, it doesn’t matter what […]
Sony’s UK eBook Store Now Live – Sony Reader Store UK
Sony has finally launched the Reader Store UK to give ebook readers across the pond another choice when purchasing ebooks. Up until now, Sony only sold ebooks to the US, Canada, and Japan. Sony Reader customers in the UK had to get ebook through other sources like Waterstones, WHSmith, and Feedbooks.