A couple of Amazon exclusives came to light yesterday. First, Amazon announced that they’ve added seven of Albert Einstein’s books to the Kindle Store, which happened to be on his 132nd birthday. Secondly, Amazon’s Appstore for Android is getting set to launch most likely this week or next. Amazon nabbed a new version of Angry […]
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Read an E-Book Week – Free and Discounted eBooks Aplenty
Yesterday Read an E-Book Week kicked off with a number of publishers and authors offering thousands of free and discounted ebooks to help promote ebooks around the world. Read an E-Book Week was created in 2004 to help bring attention to ebooks and to educate and inform the public about the advantages of digital books. […]
This Week’s Kobo Books Promo for eBook Deals
Kobo’s marketing department is good at keeping things interesting. For the next week, from March 5th to March 12th, Kobo is running a promotion where you can get coupons based on how much you spend on your next purchase of ebooks. If you already seen this deal a couple of days ago, check the details […]
March Discount Codes for eBooks from eBooks.com
Here are the coupon codes for eBooks.com for the month of March. Each month eBooks.com offers discounts on ebooks in several categories and subjects. This month’s focus is on taxation ebooks with the income tax deadline rapidly approaching. The ebooks from eBooks.com come in the following formats: Adobe EPUB and PDF, Microsoft LIT, MobiPocket, and […]
Nook: Spotlight Pick and More In Store Offers for March
Barnes and Noble released the march line-up for the More In Store promotion where Nook owners can download exclusive content each week by visiting a B&N retail store. Barnes and Noble also announced the “Spotlight” pick for the month of March. This is a new promotion where the first book in a popular series is […]
The Growing Threat of eBook Piracy
David Cornoy of CNET is an aspiring novelist. Recently, his book Knife Music was added to a torrent of 2500 books. At first, he was not worried, because he only made about $0.50 an ebook anyway. But then he started thinking…2500 books is a lot of books, more than most would ever need, and at […]
OverDrive Adds Disney Digital eBooks to Libraries, Updates iPad App
A couple of announcements this week from the OverDrive blog, they’ve released an ebook and audiobook app for the Apple iPad and are adding a collection of nearly 700 classic and new Digital Books from Disney to library’s digital catalogs. The OverDrive Media Console iOS app has been optimized for the large screen of the […]
Borders Files for Bankruptcy, Will Continue to Sell eBooks
Yesterday Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a final attempt to save the company. As part of the restructuring process, 30 percent of Borders retail stores will be closed, which equates to about 200 stores nationwide.