NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
High street and online book retailer Borders has extended its eBook reader range to include the latest Sony readers as well as devices from BeBook and COOL-ER. The company already sells the Elonex reader through its stores which currently sells for £169. Added to the range are the touch screen Sony eReader Touch … [Read more...]
eBook social media service Wattpad has become the latest eBook player to announce support for the EPUB format, following Google Books and Sony in adopting the XML-based standard. The site publishes eBooks written by users which can then be read via Wattpad's website, mobile site or through applications for mobile … [Read more...]
Google has made a million public domain titles in its Google Books library available for download in EPUB format. In a blog post the search engine giant said the move would "enable people to access these books in more places, on more devices and through more applications." The decision to back EPUB comes after Sony … [Read more...]
High street and online retailer Argos is now offering the COOL-ER eBook reader, a sign of the growing mainstream status of the devices. Selling for £189.99, the six inch device comes in a range of colours which draw inevitable comparisons with Apple's iPod range. Interead, the company which makes the COOl-ER, are … [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 technological development needs a … [Read more...]
