Jan 17
Third largest U.S. book retailer Books-A-Million, Inc. has joined forces with Bluefire Productions to offer their growing eBook catalog to a wide range of mobile devices. The Books-A-Million (BAM) Reader is based on the Bluefire Reader App. The Bluefire Reader was the touchstone App for reading eBooks on iPod Touches, iPhones and iPads.
GoodeReader has more on the story.
Jan 16
New to the eBook Revolution? Here are some web sites with Free eBooks. You’ll find a wide selection of classics, contemporary and non-fiction titles. An excellent weekend browse. Bookmark these pages.
Manybooks.net. This has become my favorite with thousands of free titles in a wide variety of trouble-free formats.
GetFreeeBooks.com. Just what it says. A huge selection.
Project Gutenberg – Their mission statement: to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. Too many titles to count…
G. Wells Taylor has several FREE and/or affordable titles/sequels that are receiving great reviews at GWellsTaylor.com, SkinEaters.com and DraculaoftheApes.com. Multiple formats available.
Smashwords offers a long list of FREE eBook titles in formats to suit your new eBook reader.
Jan 15
Galleycat offers an interesting post on eBook pricing. Apparently, the $5.00 eBook is starting to show up in special offers and on back-listed titles.
We’ve been waiting for prices to drop since the eBook Revolution began. A $5.00 price tag will move a lot of E Ink.
Jan 14
ChipChicks offer us their Top Picks from the Consumer Electronics Show 2011. It’s of vital interest to eBook Rumors because you can read eBooks on three of the five gadgets listed. Also nice to see the Hanvon Color E Ink eBook Reader among them. I think that device will give full-color tablets a run for the money.
Jan 13
Remember not that long ago when Google finally launched its massive online catalogue of eBooks, Google Editions and then changed it to a store and called it Google Books? Well, Google launched this massive online eBook store to compete directly with eBook (and book) giant Amazon.com and others… and then things got really quiet.
Until now. Mashable has a post on Google’s recent acquisition of eBook Technologies, a company that specializes in the distribution of eBooks and eBook Readers. Read the Mashable article. You’ll see that further investigation shows Google appears to be in the process of creating its own intelligent reading devices based on eBook Technologies’ prototype ETI-1 eBook Reader first seen in the late 1990s.
Very interesting development…
Jan 12
As the eBook Revolution settles into its first year in the mainstream, it makes sense that we’d find the focus shifting back to those nasty eBook Pirates again. Here we’ve got a couple of posts that indicate a subtle shift away from outright panic to something more reasonable where the powers that be may be starting to recognize that simple file-sharing is more likely to encourage sales than kill them.
Here’s a post at Myce.com where publishers are still trying their hand at digitally locking eBooks (DRM) despite the fact that they do not know if it’s effective.
And here’s a story at O’ReillyRadar that underlines the truth that publishers are uncomfortable with: eBook Piracy seems to increase sales…
Jan 10
From CES 2011, Engadget.com has a couple of posts on the BlackBerry PlayBook that are worth checking out. (Especially for all you BlackBerry users.)
At this link you’ll find Engadget’s PlayBook Preview with pictures and video.
And here you’ll find an updated post with new pics, specs and video. We’re still waiting to see how RIM tackles the growing tablet market.
Jan 09
Liliputing got its hands on Pandigital’s Novel 9-inch Android tablet. Story and pictures of the $279 full-color device at the link.
Also jumping on the Android bandwagon, PCMag says social eBook software firm Copia announced an Android version of its App. Already available on desk or laptop, this development makes the social e-Reading platform, Copia, available on Android devices and the Windows 7 tablet.
USAToday posts from the 2011 CES that Ion’s Book Saver personal book scanner will let you convert your ‘paper’ titles to eBook format. The $189 device is set to hit the market in April. Pictures and details at the link.
Jan 08
PCMag has its hands on the iriver Story HD, the world’s highest-def eBook Reader. Read the post here.
ChipChick posts on the Hanvon Color E Ink Reader. Lots of photos at the jump.
ReviewsofElectronics predicts a banner year for the Kobo eReader.
PCPro reviews the enTourage Pocket eDGe eBook Reader. This is a sweet looking ride with two facing screens: one E Ink and one full color.
