I recently stumbled upon a website that can take any Wikipedia article and turn it into an ebook to view offline on an ebook reader or other reading device for free. The website can also generate ebooks from various other Creative Commons websites like Medpedia, WikiTravel, and Wikia for premium members that join. It takes […]
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Coupon Codes for eBooks.com: Back to School and Summer Promotions
Just about every month eBooks.com offers coupons codes and promotions on a wide range ebooks in various categories and subjects. This month they are taking 12% – 20% off of Education and Academic books, as well as Architecture, Computers, History, Music, and Science books. They are also offering $5 – $15 off orders of all […]
The Borders eBook Store is Now Open – Why?
News sources all over the web are asizzle with the monumental news story that the Borders ebook store, powered by Kobo, is now live and open for business. Additionally, Borders released Android and Blackberry apps to complement their apps for the iPad, iPhone, iPod, plus PC and Mac computers. Wait. Hold on one second. What? […]
Books-A-Million Giving Away Sony Readers Every Day in July
Books-A-Million, one of the nation’s leading book retailers with 227 stores in 23 states, is giving away a shiny new Sony PRS-505 each day this month to promote their new ebook store. In order to win the Sony Reader, you have to purchase an ebook from the Books-A-Million website to be entered into the daily […]
The New Toshiba eBook Store Powered by Blio
Last week we reported on Toshiba’s new Libretto W100 dual-screen laptop as a possible ebook reader, and now Toshiba is launching their own ebook store—the Toshiba Book Place—powered by Blio software. Blio is a new ebook software platform created by Ray Kurzweil—a well-known inventor, author, and futurist—that preserves a book’s original layout, including fonts, images, […]
Annual World eBook Fair: 3.5 Million Free eBooks
The 5th Annual World eBook Fair is coming July 4th through August 4th 2010, where about 3.5 million ebooks will be made available for free from over 100 contributing ebook libraries all over the world. Some top contributing sources include The Internet Archive, World Public Library, Wattpad, Project Gutenberg, and International Music Score Library Project, […]
Free eBook: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson, author of the popular Mistborn trilogy and the writer chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series, released one of his novels, Warbreaker, as he wrote it so that student writers could learn about the evolution of a novel from beginning to end. Brandon also believed that by giving away one […]
Getting Started with Calibre eBook Management
Calibre Overview If you haven’t yet started using Calibre (pronounced Caliber) for managing your ebook collection, now is a good time to learn how to get started. Calibre is undisputedly the best ebook managing tool on the planet. And the best part is, it’s free. Calibre can do everything from displaying ebooks in its ebook […]