Here’s another roundup of 10 free highly-rated Kindle ebooks for Sunday, December 13th. Amazon has also just kicked off another round of sales on the Kindle Paperwhite 3, the Kids Kindle, and the entry-level Kindle—all are $20 off the regular price. With Christmas less than two weeks away, this is probably the last time they […]
List of Amazon’s Best Selling Books of 2015
Amazon issued a press release a couple of days ago announcing the best-selling books of 2015, complete with a list of the top 20 titles for a few different categories. According to the fine print, the best-seller lists take into account first editions published in 2015 and reflect paid print and Kindle editions. Last month […]
Scribd Adds Sheet Music to Unlimited Subscription Plan
Scribd has been gaining ground with their subscription service that serves up all the ebooks, audiobooks, and comic books that you can consume for $8.99 per month. Now Scribd has announced that they’ve added sheet music to their $9 a month plan as well. Scribd’s catalog now contains several thousand songbooks from publisher Hal Leonard. […]
Wizard of Oz is Free Kindle eBook and Audiobook Combo
Amazon doesn’t update their free ebook and audiobook pair every month like they used to, but they’ve finally got a new title listed this month for their free promo. It’s the first book in the Oz series, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. You can get both the Kindle ebook and Audible audiobook for free this […]
Aldiko eBook App Finally Released for iOS
Aldiko has been one of the most popular ePub reading apps for Android, with over 27 million downloads, and now it’s finally available on the iOS platform too for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 7.1 or later. Aldiko has been available on Android for several years now. It was one of the […]
New Software Update 5.1.1 for 2015 Fire Tablets adds Blue Shade Feature
Amazon has released a new software update for their 5th gen Fire tablets, including the $50 entry-level Fire, the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10. The Fire HD 6 should be getting the update as well. It doesn’t look like any of the previous Fire Tablets will be getting updated to Fire OS 5, […]
New Firmware Update 3.19 for Kobo eReaders Now Available
Kobo has started rolling out a software update for their line of ebook readers. The new software includes a number of bug fixes, nothing major and not any new features, just a number of improvements. The new firmware version is 3.19.5613 and its release includes the following models: Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo, Kobo Aura HD, […]
Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition Tablet Released
Today Amazon announced a new addition to their tablet lineup (kind of) with the release of the Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition. It’s available for “pre-order” today for $249 and it starts shipping in two days on December 9th. Amazon’s marketing is trying to be clever with this one but I’m not sure if it’s […]