NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
The picture above is of an advert I spotted on the Victoria Line this morning, the one below is an ad seen on a train leaving Waterloo this afternoon. Both are for the Kobo ebook reader and reinforce my suspicions that it’s Kobo who gains the most from the recently announced tie-up with high street book retailer … [Read more...]
As an ebook advocate I often get asked which ebook reader people should buy as gifts and, though I’d never want one myself, I always answer: ‘a Kindle’. I love reading on my iPad, I love it’s full-colour screen, I love that I can read magazines which look like magazines on it, and I love that I can access … [Read more...]
Book retailer WHSmith has announced it is migrating its entire ebook operation to Canadian-based Kobo. In an email to customers, the high street and online retailer said while customers can continue to search and browse for eBooks at WHSmith.co.uk “when you have found an eBook you will click through to Kobo's … [Read more...]
High street ebook retailer Waterstone’s is working on its own ebook reader, the firm’s new managing director James Daunt has told the BBC's You and Yours radio programme. The retailer currently sells a number of third-party ebook readers including those from Sony but currently has no device of its own and … [Read more...]
I and others have have previously commented on the underwhelming nature of Apple’s iBooks app yet, something like 16 months after it launched, it remains the least exciting of Apple’s stores. None of the usual Apple innovation seems present and the app still lacks basic features such as a ‘night mode’ or … [Read more...]
