NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
The British Library has launched its latest iPad app - a collection of Victorian books of songs, poetry, plays, and stories to entertain which will add cheer to the festive season. Developed by BiblioLabs, the British Library Victorian Christmas iPad app includes more than 75 titles from the British Library’s … [Read more...]
BBC Magazines have become the latest big name to sign up to Apple’s subscription rules for magazines, offering their Good Food title both through the BBC subscriptions website and within the app store. iPad owners can take advantage of an introductory offer of 3 issues for £1 when paying by direct debit through … [Read more...]
British newspapers The Guardian and Observer are now available to users of Amazon’s Kindle ereader. The Kindle editions will offer the content from each day’s editions plus all the editorial sections and supplements according to a blogpost on guardian.co.uk. As is standard for Kindle newspaper subscriptions, both … [Read more...]
Earlier this month Random House UK reached an agreement to sell books via Apple's iBooks store. As with all other publishers selling via Apple, Random House sets the price for each title under an arrangement known as the agency pricing model which sees the retailer take a fixed percentage of the sale price. Agency … [Read more...]
Kobo users on the iPad and iPhone can now share quotes, passages and recommendations with friends on Twitter following the ebook retailer's latest app update. The app update extends the Reading Life features which gives readers 'awards' for the number of books they've read or reaching benchmarks. In a statement the … [Read more...]
