NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
Like probably a lot of other people, I have some ebooks purchased for my now unused Sony reader which I’d love to store on my iPad n iBooks alongside new purchases. Because they’re protected by DRM that’s not currently possible. Or at least, not without breaking the law. Hopefully at some point in the … [Read more...]
'Great Books for £2.99’ proclaims a banner in Apple’s iBookstore and iTunes (see image). That’s pretty tempting, I have some iTunes vouchers and feel like a few new books. Perhaps some of these seasonal bargains are the sort of books I like to read? Except, as the image below shows, the books … [Read more...]
There’s a lot of excitement at Amazon’s latest Kindle press release, some the result of misreporting and misreading. Amazon says “customers are purchasing well over 1 million Kindle devices per week” - that’s ALL Kindle models, the ad-carrying ‘special offers’ model, the touch and the Fire. That’s … [Read more...]
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...]
