For anyone who doubted the proliferation of ebooks, Amazon issued a press release yesterday announcing that they now sell 105 Kindle ebooks for every 100 hardcover and paperback books. This took just 3.5 years for Amazon to achieve, even with most publishers fighting the transition to ebooks every step of the way. What’s more impressive […]
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Google eBooks Web Reader Gets Dictionary, Translate, and Search
Google announced today the addition of some new features to the Google eBooks Web Reader, which works with any modern web browser for reading Google eBooks online. Users can now double-click a word within the Web Reader to look-up the word in the dictionary, translate it, and run searches within the book, on Google, or […]
Coupon Offers: eBooks.com, eHarlequin, Kobo, GelaSkins
Below are a bunch of coupon codes for three different ebook stores: the Kobo ebook store, eBooks.com, and eHarlequin. There’s also this code for 10% off at Gelaskins: SPRINGFOR10. Gelaskins sell skins for various devices. The code expires on May 31st.
Kindle Germany: Amazon Launches the German Kindle Store
Today the German Amazon website, Amazon.de, opened the doors on their own Kindle Store, complete with product pages for the Kindle, Kindle eBooks, and Kindle Reading Apps. According to the press release, the German Kindle Store has more than 650,000 titles available, 71 of 100 Spiegel bestsellers, and over 25,000 German-language titles, including thousands of […]
Kindle Library Books: Kindle to Get Library Lending via OverDrive
Somewhere a pig is flying. Amazon announced today that the Kindle and Kindle reading apps will soon be getting support for library books through a service called OverDrive, which currently provides access to over 11,000 libraries in the United States with support for just about every ebook reader but the Kindle. The press release also […]
Kobo Expanding into Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and Netherlands
Kobo announced today at the London Book Fair in London that they are continuing their expansion into Europe, with stores launching in Germany and Spain next month. Local stores for France, Italy, and the Netherlands will soon follow. In addition to these new markets, Kobo and its partners offer ebooks to the United States, Canada, […]
OverDrive’s BlackBerry App Gets EPUB Library eBooks
OverDrive, a company that works with more than 13,000 libraries worldwide to bring library ebook and audiobooks to portable devices and computers, has updated their BlackBerry app to add support for EPUB library ebooks, just in time for the upcoming release of the BlackBerry PlayBook.
Nook Spotlight Pick for April; NYT Subscribers Bypass Paywall
Each month Barnes and Noble offers the first ebook in a popular series for $0.99 as their “Spotlight” pick. The Spotlight pick for April is Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks . It usually sells for $9.99. Consider Phlebas has a 4 star rating over 62 reviews at B&N. Here’s the description: