In line with the previous post about Barnes and Noble launching their new self-publishing platform, PubIt, below is a press release via an email I received about Germany’s leading self-publishing platform, XinXii.
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B&N Launches PubIt – Get Your eBooks Published With B&N
Today Barnes and Noble finally launched their own digital publishing platform called PubIt to keep up with the other major e-retailers like Amazon and Apple. The bad news, however, is that their rates are lower than both of those. Amazon and Apple pay 70% of the list price to independent publishers and authors for using […]
October Dicount Codes for eBooks.com
Listed below are 13 different coupon codes and discounts for ebooks purchased from eBooks.com during the month of October. Make sure to check the dates, as they all seem to expire at different times.
A Mini Review of the New Kobo Desktop App
This morning Kobo released a desktop ebook reader application for PC and Mac computers. Basically, the app allows users to read and download ebooks from Kobo’s 2.2 million titles. Kobo also has dedicated reading applications for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, and BlackBerry. I downloaded the app and tried it out. You can download […]
New eBook Reader App for eBooks.com; Coupon Codes for eBooks.com
There’s a new iPhone and iPad app from eBooks.com called Ebook Reader. It’s available for free from the iTunes store. According to the Ebook Reader website, the app supports iPhone/iPad format, ePub for Adobe Digital Editions, and unencrypted ePub. Not sure what they mean by iPhone/iPad format; it certainly doesn’t support Apple’s proprietary ePub DRM. […]
WHSmith Cuts eBook Prices in Response to Amazon UK
Last week when Amazon officially unveiled the new Kindle UK ebook store, I compared some of Amazon’s ebook prices with WHSmith and found that Amazon had much lower prices in most cases. Here’s the post with the information about Kindle UK and the price comparisons. So now WHSmith is countering by cutting their prices by […]
GooReader Review – An App for Google Books
The GooReader application for Windows was announced today. It allows you to search, download, and read books and magazines available on Google Books in yet another app that tries to look like a virtual bookshelf. There are two versions of the app, a free version and a paid version if you are insane enough to […]
Calibre eBook Management User Interface Tutorial
In a followup to an earlier post, getting started with Calibre ebook management, this post and video demonstrates some advanced tips and tricks for getting the most out of the Calibre user interface. Getting Familiarized With the Calibre UI There are 4 main parts to the Calibre user interface, the book list, tag list, book […]