Swets Information Services, library subscription services company, recently announced that they had expanded their ebook collection to include more that 1,000,000 titles from aggregators and publishers all over the world. Swets processes more than 1.8 million subscriptions each year for more than 60,000 customers in over 160 countries, and that’s bound to grow with the [...]
Entries from July 26th, 2011
Swetwise now has 1 million digital titles available for libraries
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · digital library
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Nook iPad app to return (eventually), comes with 175 periodicals
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news, software news
Barnes & Noble sent out a press release last night explaining what had happened to the iPad app. B&N decided to combine removing the ebookstore link with adding a new feature. They’re probably hoping that the latter will be enough to get you to swallow the former (ditto for Amazon). Plus, I’m told it’s a [...]
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Asus eee Pad SL101 clears the FCC
July 25th, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news
The Asus eee Slider showed up on the FCC website today, but unfortunately for us all the interesting data has been concealed. This is one of those tablets that I plan to make time to see when it hits store shelves. It last showed up around the time of CES 2011. According to those lucky [...]
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Nook for iPhone was updated but the iPad app is gone
July 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Apple, apps, bn
As strange as it might sound, Barnes & noble didn’t update both their apps today. They only updated the iPhone app and for some reason known only to them they pulled the iPad app. A couple people have pointed out to me that i missed the fact that the Nook iOS app was updated. Well, [...]
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Google Books is back on iOS – ebookstore link is gone
July 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Apple, apps, Google
When Google Books disappeared from iTunes last week some thought it was gone for good. But it’s back. Right now I’m looking at the update screen for my iPad. it’s telling me there’s a new update for the Google Books app. Unfortunately, I can’t actually download it. I tried and for some reason it told me [...]
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Amazon removed the ebookstore link from the Kindle iOS app
July 25th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Amazon, Apple, apps
And now the other shoe has dropped. Amazon Kindle pr tweeted just a few minutes that there’s a new update for the Kindle iOS apps. First thing they changed was exactly what you’d expect: the link that used to lead you to the Kindle Store has been removed. I don’t have an iGadget at hand, [...]
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Spotify, Rhapsody have cut ties to their iOS apps
July 25th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Apple
A friend pointed out to me this morning that i really should have checked up on the other content providers in iTunes because ebookstores weren’t the only ones affected by Apple’s greed. He was right. Last Thursday saw new app updates from both Spotify and Rhapsody. And guess what? Both listings state that the only [...]
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FBReader updated, PE hack, and other interesting posts
July 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Round up
For the past couple weeks I’ve been posting some of my articles over on Appazonia, my Android app blog. Every Monday I’m going to do a round up post over here at TDR for important ebook related posts. For example, a new version of FBReader was released over the weekend. It adds support for Android [...]
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To Tablet or Not to Tablet: The Conundrum
July 25th, 2011 · 13 Comments · opinion
All the world’s been taken by the tablet. Each week brings a new tablet to compete with the original Apple iPad. When it was just the Apple iPad, I had no problem answering the question, “Should I buy a tablet?” For me, the answer was clear — no. My “no” came about for various reasons, [...]
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Wall Street Journal to cut ties to their iPad app
July 24th, 2011 · 13 Comments · app store news, Apple
The WSJ announced a few minutes ago that they will be following in the steps of Kobo, Netflix, and B&N. Some time in the near future the WSJ plan to release a new version of their iPad app, and it’s going to be missing something. Readers will no longer be able to click on a [...]
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