It’s not very often that Amazon offers an ebook for their free paid Android app of the day, so I thought this one warranted a mention. Today only the classic Halloween special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is free in interactive ebook form. Normally it sells for $3.99. These types of interactive ebooks are […]
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OverDrive App Arrives in Nook Appstore for Access to Library eBooks
If you own a Nook Color, a Nook Tablet, or plan on getting one of the new Nook HD tablets, Barnes and Noble recently added the OverDrive Media Console app to the Nook Appstore to make borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from public libraries a lot easier and more convenient. Previously if you wanted to get […]
Review: Google Play Books for Android (Video)
Yesterday Google issued an update for their ebook app to add a number of new features so I figured now would be a good time to put together a review of the Google Play Books app for Android. Up until now Google’s ebook app has been pretty lackluster when compared to all the other ebook […]
Amazon Appstore Launches in Europe – Kindle Fire Next?
Since it first launched about a year and a half ago, the Amazon Appstore has been restricted to customers in the United States only. But not anymore. Earlier in the week Amazon announced the expansion of their Android appstore to include several European countries—the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Amazon says customers can […]
Kobo Updates iOS App to Add Adobe DRM Support and More Languages
Earlier this week Kobo issued an update for their iPad and iPhone apps that adds some interesting new features. The biggest change is the addition of Adobe DRM support. This means that Kobo app users can now load encrypted ePub and PDF ebooks into the iOS app that were purchased from outside the Kobo ebookstore. […]
Send to Kindle for Google Chrome Can Send Web Content to Kindle Devices and Apps
Amazon has released a really cool new browser extension called Send to Kindle for Google Chrome that lets Kindle users send web content such as news articles, blog posts, and even highlighted text from Google Chrome to a Kindle device or Kindle app. Unlike the other Send to Kindle apps that allow you to easily […]
Pulse RSS News Reader Comes to Web Browsers
Pulse has made a name for itself over the past couple of years as being one of the best RSS news reader apps for the iPad and iPhone as well as Android tablets and phones. Thanks to some help from Microsoft, an HTML5 version of Pulse is now available on all modern web browsers, including […]
Update for Aldiko Android App Adds New Features
Aldiko is one of the more popular ePub ebook reading apps for Android tablets and the premium version has just gotten an update to add some new features. Top of the list is the ability to add highlights and notes to passages in ebooks. Along with this there’s a new “Notes & Highlights” section in […]