Ebook Archive

  • Apple rolls out iBooks app for iPhone, iPod touch

    Apple rolls out iBooks app for iPhone, iPod touch

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    It's not just multitasking apps that are hitting the App Store to coincide with the release of iOS 4.0 -- Apple has also just rolled out version 1.1 of its iBooks app, which is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch in addition to the iPad (officially, this time). As previously announced, the app now also supports PDF viewing, and boasts a range of other more minor improvements, including new ways to bookmark (complete with syncing across devices), your choice of white or sepia colored pages, more font options and, of course, "greater stability and better performance."

    Apple rolls out iBooks app for iPhone, iPod touch originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Alex eReader shipping tomorrow

    Alex eReader shipping tomorrow

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    We told you all the rumors, we told you it was available for pre-order, and now we're here to tell you, it's finally shipping! The Spring Design Alex eReader is shipping their pre-orders (at least the US ones) tomorrow. The Alex is that dual screen, Android based reader that many consider to be a very feasible alternative to the iPad.

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  • E-E-book readers for kids. The first “E” stands for educational.

    E-E-book readers for kids. The first “E” stands for educational.

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    With all the flaws that e-book readers have, they don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. VTech, makers of fine educational electronics, are rolling out the Flip animated e-book reader, so now, your kids can get in on the action too. I always loved to read as a kid, so on family trips I’d bring [...]

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  • eBooks on the iPad may not be so outlandishly expensive

    eBooks on the iPad may not be so outlandishly expensive

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    The NYT has a report on ebook pricing for the iPad, saying that Apple may charge $9.99 for popular titles, just like everyone else in the free world. While most prices will be higher - it's an iPad! Why go slumming? - popular books can hit the $9.99 if need be. Apple takes 30 percent of the sale while the publishers take 70 percent.

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  • First hands on: Samsung E6 e-book reader

    First hands on: Samsung E6 e-book reader

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    So Matt and I just got our hands on the Samsung E6, the company’s first electronic book reader. As a device it’s not bad, but compared to what’s out there you just know that Samsung was all, “We need to release something to get a foothold in the market.” The 6-inch e-redaer slides open, quite possibly [...]

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  • Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far," though apps are also being developed for the iPhone, PC and Mac. The biggest advantage of this format might actually be behind the scenes, where the costs to publishers are drastically reduced by them having to only submit a PDF scan of their books, whose formatting remains unchanged in Blio. We'll be all over this at CES, but for now you'll find more pictures and early impressions over at Gizmodo.

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Kindle for iPhone takes over the world, hits over 60 new countries

    Kindle for iPhone takes over the world, hits over 60 new countries

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    We all now know that Kindle is more than an e-book for Amazon -- it's an entire digital content platform with aims on world domination, which explains why the company has felt more than comfortable releasing software-based readers for other platforms. To that end, they've announced that Kindle for iPhone is now ready for download in over 60 additional countries, which probably overlaps as a pretty beefy subset of the list of countries to which the actual Kindle is shipping. And, unlike the real thing, you'll actually be able to browse the full web with your iPhone -- not to say that HTML on an E Ink display was ever a very satisfying experience to start.

    Kindle for iPhone takes over the world, hits over 60 new countries originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Alex eBook Reader unveiled

    Alex eBook Reader unveiled

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    The e-book seems to be the next big thing as we roll into the end of 2009. What with the Kindle 2, the nook, and others coming on the scene, it's interesting to watch what's coming next. For example: the Alex eBook Reader. It's running Android, and has an absolutely insane frame rate (for an e-book reader).

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  • Barnes & Noble has a color ebook reader in the works

    Barnes & Noble has a color ebook reader in the works

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Plastic Logic is building a color ebook reader for Barnes & Noble. It’s slated for a Spring 2010 launch and theres is no word on Android powering the device. It will run the Barnes & Noble e-book software. That’s all we know. Questions? I hope not, because all we know comes from the video above.

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  • Shocking news: Sony to sell e-books in open format!

    Shocking news: Sony to sell e-books in open format!

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    sony-readerSony -- you know, the folks that brought us such wonderfully proprietary technologies as the MiniDisc and the MemoryStick -- have an e-book reader. You might have heard of it, it's called the Reader. In a pretty bold move, Sony announced that by the end of the year they'll only sell e-books in the ePub format. Further, Sony is abandoning their own digital restrictions management software -- that stuff that prevents you from sharing your e-books with your friends -- in favor of solutions from Adobe.

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  • Sony officially announces the Reader Touch Edition, Reader Pocket Edition

    Sony officially announces the Reader Touch Edition, Reader Pocket Edition

    Posted on August 5, 2009 | No Comments
    As expected, Sony officially unveiled their latest eBook readers. So, here we have the PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition and the PRS-300 Pocket Edition. The latter rocks a five-inch electronic paper screen display that fits in your pocket and lasts up to two weeks off a single charge. The $199 reader will store up to 350 standard eBooks.

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  • Unannounced Sony Readers leak out, few care

    Unannounced Sony Readers leak out, few care

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Ready for more ebook readers? I hope so 'cause Sony has two in the pipe right now. Somehow the service manuals were posted in some random corner of the Internet and of course a forum user downloaded them. The PRS-300 seems to be an entry-level model and the PRS-600 is a slightly larger, better equipped ebook reader.

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