The Digital Reader

The Best News and Info on Ebooks and eReaders

The Digital Reader header image 4

Entries Tagged as '1m'

KiwiTech announce 1m downloads

July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: KiwiTech said its collection of ebook apps has reached the one million download mark. Rakesh Gupta, KiwiTech’s chief executive officer, said the milestone is a significant one because it shows that more people see the benefits of downloading their favorite titles to smartphones and other wireless devices. KiwiTech has more than [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···

Apple sells 1m iPads

May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Apple

28 Days. Wow. It took Apple just 4 weeks to  sell 1 million iPads. Users have also downloaded over 12 million apps and over 1.5 million from iBookstore. “One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Damn. [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···

JISC adds 1m new pages to Online Repository

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects

From the announcement: Freely accessible to UK colleges and universities, the latest addition of one million pages takes the total number of pages of 19th century newspapers available online1 to over three million. Alastair Dunning, programme manager at JISC, says: “In a time when print newspapers are under threat, the British Library resource provides a [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·····