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Amazon is offering a new software application called Send to Kindle. As its name implies, the app lets you send personal documents to your Kindle from your Mac, wirelessly. Users can drag and drop one or more documents on to the Send to Kindle icon in the OS X Dock, or launch the application and drag-and-drop docume... |
25 April 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Apple has acknowledged an issue with its e-book reading application, and has therefore launched an update to address this problem, as well as to strengthen the stability and performance of the software. iBooks version 2.1.1 addresses an issue where the user got nagged with a prompt to sign-in with his / her Apple ID... |
17 April 2012
04:01 GMT |
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After the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed antitrust charges against Apple and major book publishers over e-book pricing, Apple issued a statement claiming these accusations are utterly false. Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told All Things D in a statement that “The DOJ’s accusation of collusion against Ap... |
13 April 2012
03:46 GMT |
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“Featuring a @SteveWoz intro, Tap, Move, Shake will show you how to make your own #iOS game,” reads the latest tweet from Apple through the @iBookstore Twitter handle. The company run by Tim Cook seems eager to promote a book written by Todd Moore and published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. which acts as ... |
6 April 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Apple is offering customers an eBook containing everything there is to know about the iPad, with a focus on the tablet’s features as of iOS 5.1.
According to the iTunes description, iPad User Guide for iOS 5.1 contains “everything you need to know about iPad, in a handy eBook format.”
“Get t... |
26 March 2012
15:51 GMT |
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If up until now iBooks were protected by Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) and they couldn’t be played on any unapproved devices, the latest variant of the popular protection-remover called Requiem has the ability to crack the DRM, allowing digital books to be transformed into any eBook for... |
25 February 2012
06:32 GMT |
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A new revision for Calibre has been released today, incrementing the build number to 0.8.41. At the top of the list of changes is support for Sony Xperia Play 4G. The new features touch on the news download system, and a tweak that allows you to control the order in which Tag Browser displays the categories. ... |
24 February 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Without letting anyone know about it, Amazon updated the Kindle Touch WiFi product page to make its popular eBook reader available internationally.
A wide selection of shipping destinations are included for the $139.00 (about 105 EUR) eReader, which was introduced by the company in October of last year.
For those o... |
4 February 2012
06:45 GMT |
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Version 0.8.38 of Calibre is out and it introduces a new major feature, which allows the app to automatically import books from a user-defined folder. All you have to do is specify a location and Calibre will monitor it, adding any new files as books. Additional new stuff available in this release touches on the con... |
3 February 2012
04:25 GMT |
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Progress continues on Calibre, with version 0.8.37 having been released recently. The new build brings plenty of fixes to the table, but new features are also available.
Among these, there is the possibility to run the application in two different user accounts on Windows. Also, it comes with the necessary drivers f... |
30 January 2012
07:41 GMT |
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LifeWithSiri.com, a location that provides information about how to use Apple’s powerful "personal assistant" on the iPhone 4S, has been redesigned and is now featuring updated versions of its e-books.
The site features links to all the eBook reading apps on its home page, which has been completely redesigned ... |
19 January 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Formal antitrust proceedings have been kicked off by the European Commission to investigate the matter of e-book price rigging by several renowned publishers “with the help of Apple.” Apple maintains the iBookstore, a section of the iTunes store where iPad, iPhone and iPod touch owners can download paid a... |
6 December 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Canonical, through Sonia Ouarti, announced a couple of minutes ago (November 21st) the immediate availability for download of the "Five Golden Rules for a Successful Ubuntu Desktop Migration" eBook.Written for small businesses and enterprises, this free eBook from Canonical contains about 9 pages with information abo... |
21 November 2011
09:25 GMT |
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Kobo, a company well known for its eReaders and eBook services, has just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Japan-based Rakuten, which intends to acquire 100% of Kobo's issued and outstanding shares.The transaction will bring Kobo $315 million (231.08 million EUR) in cash from the Jap... |
9 November 2011
10:40 GMT |
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If you thought that loading your Kindle up with eBooks won't cost you anything more than storage space, you need to think about that again as a scientist has found out that a loaded Kindle is actually heavier than an empty one.Computer science professor John D. Kubiatowicz, who works at the University of Califor... |
28 October 2011
12:21 GMT |
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During yesterday’s Q4 - 2011 earnings call Apple confirmed that its iBookstore is now responsible for some 180 million ebook downloads.Accessible through the free iBooks app on iOS and through iTunes on Mac OS X and Windows, the iBookstore houses hundreds of thousands of books from major publishers, and include... |
19 October 2011
03:27 GMT |
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Starting today, Que Publishing is officially selling enhanced eBooks from its USING series through Apple’s iBookstore for 10 bucks each. Topics cover using Mac OS X, Windows, FileMaker Bento, Office for Mac, etc.The electronic books, designed for beginner-level home and office computer users, are best viewed on... |
29 September 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Amazon is said to be looking to create a digital library for books, offering a number of titles for a monthly subscription. Subscribers would be able to take out any book from the library to read it, though there will likely be a limit on how many they could get each month.
The online retailer, which started out a... |
12 September 2011
03:50 GMT |
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Microsoft Press is offering a free eBook to customers looking for some insight into the Cloud productivity offerings it launched earlier this year. “Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime” can be downloaded free of charge courtesy of Microsoft Press, only as a PDF thus ... |
22 August 2011
05:26 GMT |
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School is still a couple of months away, but Amazon is getting ready for the new school year with a new textbook rental program for students with Kindle. It's the first time it has introduced this type of service for the Kindle, since Amazon has only sold ebooks through the store until now.
Students, and ever... |
18 July 2011
10:42 GMT |
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Google's been running a full-blown ebook store for half a year now, but there's little chance of gaining a significant piece of the market without a dedicated ereader to integrate the store, like Amazon does with the Kindle. But Google's open approach has some advantages, it is now announcing the first... |
11 July 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Many people feel they lost some things with the transition from printed books to digital ones, but Google is working on recovering at least some of those. One way it's doing this is with the new doodle mode which is available for some of the titles in its eBookstore.
"As the young (and young at heart) know, b... |
10 June 2011
08:02 GMT |
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Amazon seems to be going to strength to strength and it's looking like it's expanding into new areas at an increased rate, but the company is actually just doing what it has always done, working methodically at new opportunities, even if no one else understands them, until it arrives at a point where things... |
8 June 2011
05:49 GMT |
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The latest eBook reader announced by Barnes & Noble is now ready to ship to customers who made pre-orders for the All-New NOOK.It looks like the manufacturer wants to reward customers who pre-ordered its latest device by sending them the item ahead of schedule.However, those who are ordering the eReader now will rece... |
2 June 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Google has introduced several interesting and definitely useful new features to its eBooks Web Reader, the web-based tool for accessing the digital books Google offers in its relatively new ebook store. You can now find definitions for words you don't know, translate phrases that may be in another language, or a... |
20 May 2011
06:31 GMT |
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It may be the third time we hear the same kind of boasting from Amazon, but this time it means it, the company claims. While it has been saying first that Kindle book sales outnumber hardcover sales and later paperbacks, Amazon has announced that it is now selling more ebooks than paper books on its site.For the past... |
19 May 2011
10:50 GMT |
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eBook reading application developers have until June 30 to modify their apps to comply with Apple’s new terms of service which require all book sales to be routed through the company’s in-app purchase API, thus also giving Apple a 30 percent cut of all sales.
As a result of this change, BeamItDown is d... |
12 May 2011
06:31 GMT |
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L.A. Noire is set to receive a very special sort of downloadable content, in the form of a batch of short stories based on characters found within the upcoming game or in its world, which will be released as ebooks through major retailers.
L.A. Noire is set to be released in two weeks, so Rockstar, its publisher, ... |
5 May 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Amazon has announced an interesting new program that will allow libraries to lend Kindle books. It's not providing too many details on how the program will work, but Amazon says it will be available from 11,000 libraries in the US. It's a welcomed change, Amazon hasn't been to kind to this idea in the ... |
21 April 2011
07:40 GMT |
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The Google Books iOS application, which reportedly offers access to over 3 million Google eBooks on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, has been updated to version 1.1.0.2247, which allows iPad users to read in Landscape mode, adds a new “Find” feature, and more.Google Books 1.1.0.2247 brings both new featu... |
5 April 2011
14:01 GMT |
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After confirming the iPad 2 and iOS 4.3 in reports issued minutes after the end of yesterday’s special event, Apple released a separate announcement to confirm rumors that Random House, Inc., the largest trade book publisher in the US, had made its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available on the iBookstore.
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3 March 2011
04:27 GMT |
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The free iBooks application by Apple has reached version 1.2.1 which, according to the changelog posted by the Cupertino, California electronics giant, delivers a number of stability and performance improvements.
Apple describes its iBooks app as being “an amazing way to download and read books.”
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10 February 2011
04:54 GMT |
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It's been some time coming, yet it happened sooner than even Amazon anticipated, the company now sells more ebooks than paperback books. Amazon revealed this in its quarterly financial report, though it still didn't say how many Kindles, or ebooks it sold in this time. Still, it shows that digital copies ar... |
28 January 2011
11:36 GMT |
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Google has acquired eBook Technologies, a company with a very descriptive name. There aren't many details, but both Google and the acquired company confirmed the deal. eBook Technologies developed several products and services for digital books, including ebook readers and an online distribution platform."eBook ... |
13 January 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Google's long delayed ebook store has finally become available, in the US at least, with the official launch of Google eBookstore. The new store will enable users to buy and read ebooks on any device with a browser and through mobile apps for Android and the iPhone. Pricing should be in line with the other ebook... |
6 December 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Microsoft Press is offering no less than nine free ebooks for download on a variety of topics, from the latest iterations of the Windows client and the Office productivity suite to the first Windows Phone OS and to the company’s developer platform. At the bottom of this article users will be able to find the c... |
2 December 2010
12:10 GMT |
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Although I am not actually a firm believer in these LCD screen e-Book readers that lately have been popping around all over the place, I have to admit the Energy Multimedia Color Book sounds indeed pretty good since it manages to come with a color 5 inch display at quite an attractive price.Of course that doing so me... |
5 November 2010
09:36 GMT |
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If you have been keeping a close eye on the electronics industry then you have surely noticed that eTablets are among the hottest things available out there, Asus DR-900 offering, that was announced quite some time ago, starting to make its appearance in some parts of the world, a pre-production sample being tested b... |
5 November 2010
07:32 GMT |
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Whether you get frenetic when asked about your eBook collection, or happen to be a peaceful eBook reader, the software used for handling these files can greatly influence your efficiency. And by handling, I don't just mean organizing or reading them. I also mean sorting, converting, creating, reading and actuall... |
28 October 2010
07:31 GMT |
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These last years, Microsoft has released several free eBooks and guides, for the home-users, students, teachers and IT Administrators, so that they could have the necessary tools to get more from their computers.Most of the free releases are part of the In the Classroom Series, and allow children as well as teachers ... |
18 September 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Soon after rolling out iBooks 1.1.1, Apple released version 1.1.2 of the app, which addresses an issue with the software update mechanism, according to its makers. iBooks 1.1.1 introduced the ability to double-tap an image within a book in order to view it in greater detail, as well as the ability to download and enj... |
24 July 2010
12:53 GMT |
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iBooks, the e-book reading tool for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad owners, has received an important update from Apple, adding support for double-tapping an image within a book to view it in greater detail, support for books that include audio and video, better performance when reading PDFs, and more.iBooks is a free ap... |
20 July 2010
04:30 GMT |
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When the media slate craze first started to surge, Acer was reportedly determined not to enter the fray. Instead, it was determined to focus on laptops, netbooks in particular, after this segment's excellent marketing performance during 2009. This was shown to no longer be the case at a recent event in Beijing, ... |
2 June 2010
04:23 GMT |
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Google has unveiled a redesigned Google Books homepage and also introduced a couple of new features to its rather controversial product. The feature themselves are a welcome addition, but the timing of the update is interesting for a couple of reasons. On the one hand, Apple has just unveiled its iPad tablet which ha... |
28 January 2010
11:22 GMT |
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In what seems an effort to capitalize on the hype surrounding Apple’s unconfirmed tablet computer, Kobo Inc. has announced plans to extend the availability of its eReading service across “various tablet and slate computers” beginning with February 2010. The company has applications in development fo... |
25 January 2010
09:59 GMT |
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Apple is reportedly in talks with The New York Times and HarperCollins Publishers about offering content for its upcoming tablet device. Other tablet-related rumors say Apple isn’t likely to equip the device with OLED screens. Read on for more details on both matters. HarperCollins Publishers and NY Times deal... |
19 January 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Amazon.com, the biggest online retailer in the US, has announced that Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch is now available in more than 60 additional countries from the iTunes App Store. Featuring Amazon's Whispersync technology, the Kindle iPhone app is able to save and sync a customer's bookmarks across thei... |
14 December 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Google has been getting a lot of heat with its Books project but it hasn't stopped it from going ahead with another book-related project, this time a lot less controversial. Originally announced earlier this year, Google has now revealed more details about the upcoming Editions service, which will allow users to... |
15 October 2009
11:28 GMT |
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In what is turning out to be a very bad move by Amazon, the book seller informed some of its customers on Thursday that some e-books they bought and thought they owned had been deleted from their Kindle reader and they'd be getting a refund instead. Not surprisingly, they weren't happy and turned very vocal... |
18 July 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and ScrollMotion have announced the release of Curious George's Dictionary for iPhone and iPod touch. The classic children's educational book is now available for immediate purchase and download on the App Store. Curious George's Dictionary is the first children's and edu... |
8 April 2009
10:15 GMT |
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