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Is Google Getting Ready to Enter the eBook Market?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 1, 2009 9:00 AM / 10 Comments
According to a report in the New York Times this morning, Google is getting ready to enter the eBook market by providing publishers with an infrastructure for direct-to-consumer sales. The Continue reading »


Amazon Opens a Kindle Store for the iPhone
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 11, 2009 12:40 PM / 9 Comments
Today, Amazon finally released an iPhone-specific version of its Kindle eBook store, which makes it a lot easier to browse and buy books while on the go. Sadly, though, Amazon Continue reading »


Would Students Even Want a Kindle for Textbooks?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 5, 2009 10:49 AM / 39 Comments
We speculated about this yesterday, and by now, it looks like a given that Amazon will release a larger version of its Kindle eBook reader tomorrow that will focus on Continue reading »


The Big-Screen Kindle: It's About Textbooks, Not Saving the Newspapers
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 4, 2009 8:32 AM / 9 Comments
According to a number of well-substantiated rumors, Amazon is set to debut a new, large-screen version of its Kindle eBook reader on Wednesday morning during a press conference at Pace Continue reading »


Consolidation in the EBook Market: Amazon Acquires Stanza
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 27, 2009 1:35 PM / 7 Comments
Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular eBook reader for the iPhone, just announced that it has been acquired by Amazon. Amazon, of course, also just released Kindle for iPhone, Continue reading »


Adobe Teams Up With Stanza to Create Open EBook Catalog Standard
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 8, 2009 12:32 PM / 1 Comments
Adobe and Lexcycle, the company behind the popular Stanza eBook application, announced today that they are working together with the Internet Archive on turning the Stanza online catalog system into Continue reading »


Amazon's Kindle Comes to the iPhone
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 3, 2009 10:00 PM / 18 Comments
Amazon just released a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch (iTunes link) that allows users to download and read any eBook from Amazon's Kindle store on Apple's popular Continue reading »


Don't be Silly - The Kindle 2 is No Threat to Audiobooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 25, 2009 10:03 AM / 10 Comments
A few weeks ago, just after the introduction of the new Kindle 2, the Authors Guild complained that Amazon's eBook reader had a text-to-speech function. According to Paul Aitken, the Guild's Continue reading »


O'Reilly Challenges Proprietary eBook Standards With Bookworm
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 10, 2009 11:04 AM / 1 Comments
It is only Tuesday, but it has already been a good week for eBook fans. Yesterday, Amazon released the newest version of its Kindle eBook reader, and today, O'Reilly announced Continue reading »


Ka-Boom! Marvel Plans to Release Motion Comics via iTunes
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 10, 2009 12:30 AM / 9 Comments
Marvel Entertainment - home to characters like Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, and the Hulk - has announced plans to release a series of "motion comics" via iTunes. Introduced at Continue reading »


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