For all you Harry Potter fans—there are only about 400 million or so—OverDrive announced that they’ve come to an agreement with Pottermore to be the exclusive distributor of Harry Potter ebooks and audiobooks to public libraries and schools. This means that in the very near future—preliminary signs are pointing to April 30th—library patrons will be […]
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A Look at A Game of Thrones, the Enhanced eBook Edition
As ebooks continue to evolve, publishers and authors are coming up with new ways to add enhanced content to them, such as audio and video and other potentially distracting goodies. A Game of Thrones, the first book in George Martin’s epic A Song of Fire and Ice series, is now available as an enhanced ebook, […]
eBook Coupon Codes for Kobo, eBooks.com, eHarlequin, and Carina Press
Here’s a roundup on ebook coupon codes for Kobo, eBooks.com, eHarlequin, and Carina Press. As usual not all publishers allow discounts on ebooks so these codes will work on non-agency ebooks only. Agency ebooks include any titles from the following publishers: Random House, Penguin, Time Warner, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster.
Google eBooks Now Available in Canada
Yesterday marked the launch of Google eBooks in Canada, giving Canadian readers access to hundreds of thousands of titles from publishers like Random House, McClelland & Stewart, Douglas & McIntyre, House of Anansi, Dundurn, and others. Google’s two million public domain ebooks are included too, or course. Google also partnered with the Campus eBookstore and […]
Discount Codes: eBooks, eTextbooks, and Kobo Vox
Below are some discounts codes for ebooks, etextbooks, and the new Kobo Vox ereader. Don’t forget the daily deals too, no coupons required. Amazon offers a discounted ebook each day here on their Kindle Daily Deals page. Barnes and Noble started doing the same thing, calling in the Nook Daily Find.
Kindle 4 and Kindle Store Arrive in France at Amazon.fr
It turns out the Kindle coming to France rumor was true. Spot on, in fact. Today Amazon launched the French Kindle Store, complete with a localized version of the Kindle 4 for €99, 35,000 French-language books, hundreds of graphic novels, over 4,000 free classic ebooks, and 825,000 ebooks in English and other languages.
Google eBooks Launches in the UK, It’s About Bloody Time
Good news for ebook readers in the UK, Google announced yesterday that they’ve expanded their ebook store to the United Kingdom, making available several hundred thousand ebooks from major UK publishers like Random House, Hachette, and Penguin, not to mention Google’s two million free public domain ebooks. Google uses EPUB and PDF for their ebooks, […]
Library eBooks for Non-Residents: Where to Get eBooks if Your Library is Lacking
Here’s a list of public libraries that offer library cards to non-residents so that you can barrow library ebooks for a Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, or a multitude of other devices even if your local library doesn’t have ebooks or if it is lacking in selection and availability. This list comes from the How To […]