Next Issue, a joint venture formed by five US publishers—Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp. and Time Inc.—has just launched the Next Issue app for getting magazine subscriptions on the Apple iPad. The unique thing about Next Issues’s approach is you can either subscribe to a single issue of a magazine or pay a monthly […]
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Updates for Kindle Android and iPad Apps Bring Much-Needed New Features
Amazon issued some updates for their reading apps this past week. They added some much-needed new features to the Kindle for Android app, and they also updated the Kindle for iPad app as well as the Kindle Cloud Reader, their web browser based app.
Instapaper App for Android Tablets and Phones Now Available
Instapaper has finally launched an official Android app, which is available now from Google Play for $2.99. It will soon be hitting the Amazon appstore and Nook appstore too, once it gets through the approval process. Instapaper made a name for itself on iOS (iPad, iPhone). What Instapaper does is it allows users to save […]
Send to Kindle for Mac Released
Earlier in the week Amazon released a program for Mac computers called Send to Kindle for Mac that allows users to easily send personal documents and DRM-free ebooks to Kindle ereaders and apps and the Kindle cloud archive from Mac computers. This is a followup to the Send to Kindle for PC that was released […]
Read it Later Changes Name to “Pocket”, Drops Price to Free
If you’ve ever used the Read it Later app for Android or iOS, then you know it us a useful app for saving web articles to read later offline and even YouTube videos too. Read it Later has just changed to Pocket. Pocket has some new features, a new user interface, and is now free […]
Adobe PDF Reader for Android and iOS Updated to Add Loads of New Features
Adobe has released a major update for their Adobe Reader Mobile App for Android, iPad, and iPhone. Before the update, the Adobe Reader app was an okay free PDF reader. There were a number of other free and paid PDF apps that worked a lot better and offered a lot more features. But now the […]
Kindle for Android Updated, Gets Personal Document and KF8 Support
Yesterday Amazon issued a firmware update for their Kindle for Android app that adds some nifty new features. The Kindle for Android app now supports Amazon’s Kindle Format 8, which adds a bunch of content in the form of comic books and graphic novels—like Superman and Batman—as well as illustrated children’s books, such as Curious […]
7 Alternative Appstores for Your Android Tablet or eReader
Below you will find a list of seven places to download and install Android apps for your Android tablet, phone, or ereader, including the Kindle Fire, Kobo Vox, rooted Nook Touch, Pandigital tablets, and pretty much any other device that allows the installation of third party apps. Since a lot of tablets don’t come with […]