news, tips & advice for UK eBook lovers
Following Sony's announcement of two new eBook reader models UK retailers have been busy slashing the price of the Sony PRS-505 reader which first hit UK shops last September. WH Smith has dropped their price to a new low of £147.99, down almost £30 on their previous price. Meanwhile … [Read more...]
Sony’s announcement this week that it’ll drop proprietary eBook formats is rightly being seen as a challenge to Amazon and their Kindle device, all eyes are now on the US online retailer to see how they’ll respond. It’s long been clear that to succeed any new entertainment … [Read more...]
Knowing which eBooks to buy should get easier after Sony announced it’s to convert its eBook store to the industry-standard EPUB format by the end of this year and stop selling titles in its own proprietary ebook format. “Our intention is to lead by example,” said Steve Haber, … [Read more...]
Dan Brown fans will be able to buy the author's latest book, The Lost Symbol, in eBook format on the same day as the hardback, his publisher has confirmed. The book, which is slated for global release on 15th September, will be the third to involve the character of Robert Langdon, … [Read more...]
Hot on the tails of our look at the online eBook stores offered by UK booksellers, we thought it fair to your wallet to point out that filling your new reader with titles need not cost you money. From the earliest days of the internet, Project Gutenberg has been offering out of … [Read more...]
Electronics manufacturer Astak has unveiled a new 5" eBook reader which is available to pre-order for our States-side cousins. As with the new Sony readers, there's no word on a UK launch but this latest release lends weight to the growing industry belief that the time of the eBook … [Read more...]
