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Download Google Play Books 1.3.0 for iPhone and iPad

The universally-designed Google Play Books for iPhone and iPad has been promoted to version 1.3.0 which brings many new features in flowing text mode, Google has announced. Users of the e-reading app can now bookmark a page by tapping the top right corner, touch and hold to select some text (including with color), a...

17 April 2012
06:51 GMT

Ubuntu Software Center Offers New eBooks and Magazines

Canonical announced a couple of days ago, October 24th, that new books and magazines have been added to Ubuntu Software Center, from its new partners Linux New Media and Pearson Technology Group.Ubuntu users will be able to purchase the new titles from Ubuntu Software Center, and download them as high-quality PDF fil...

26 October 2011
13:01 GMT

Amazon Finally Introduces a Web Based 'Kindle Cloud Reader'

Amazon has been working on a web client for its Kindle ebook store for quite a while now. It debuted a first iteration late last year, albeit with a different scope, but is now introducing a new product which brings the entire Kindle experience to the browser.Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader enables users to read books fro...

10 August 2011
09:40 GMT

23k eBooks for Orange's Android Users via New App

On Thursday, mobile phone carrier Orange officially introduced the Orange Book Club Android app, through which users would have the opportunity to access a number of over 23,000 eBooks from the Android device in their hand. According to the wireless carrier, the new software would enable users browse and download th...

18 March 2011
05:41 GMT

Kobo Wireless eReader Arrives in Hong Kong

The Kobo eBook reader, launched back in late September 2010, is one of the most affordable products of this type available out there, and for this reason, it should come as no surprise that it's making its way into several markets, the latest being the one in Hong Kong. Kobo will be available following a new ...

3 December 2010
07:43 GMT

NOOK for Android Updated to 2.2

Today, Barnes & Noble announced the release of a new version of their popular Android application, NOOK for Android, which was launched into the wild only recently. The new NOOK application for Android, available in version 2.2 now, is the third release the company pushes out to its users in only a few weeks. The mo...

9 September 2010
11:49 GMT

Vodafone UK's Free Fridays Brings 5 eBooks to Users

Mobile phone carrier Vodafone UK announced recently that today its customers are offered the possibility to download up to 5 free eBooks to their handsets. According to the wireless operator, this is the last offer in a series of Free Fridays is has put in place for its users, providing them with free mobile Interne...

12 March 2010
05:13 GMT

DOJ Launches Investigation into Google Books Settlement

The US Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation among antitrust concerns about the settlement Google made with a number of authors and book publishing companies. The $125 million deal would allow the search giant to scan any book and become the exclusive provider of digital copies of the out-of-print...

3 July 2009
05:00 GMT

Google Books Gets a Major Update

Google Books has made the headlines mostly with the controversy surrounding the project rather than with the product itself. But this hasn't stopped the search giant from improving it and it has just announced a major update adding some very useful features. “Today I'm excited to announce that we�...

19 June 2009
08:05 GMT

Man to Read for 30 days Non-Stop Using Sony's Reader Digital Book

It's become quite a habit for various consumer electronics' powerhouses around the world to launch what could be described as “social campaigns”, in which they heavily promote some social issue alongside one of their products, which could potentially solve it. And that's also the case with ...

2 October 2008
02:35 GMT

Smelling the Knock-Off From a Mile Away - The Hanlin eReader V9

China is probably the world's biggest manufacturer of various electronic devices, but, as we all know only too well, quite a large percentage of the products created here are either cheap knock-offs or, in the best-case scenario, "imitations" of similar items created by various important brands. And this is also...

17 January 2008
11:16 GMT


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