Boomerang Books have just opened an ebookstore at Booku.com. The store is supplied by Overdrive, and it stocks more than 134k titles, including content from Australian publishers such as Allen & Unwin, Black Dog Books, Exisle Publishing, HarperCollins, New Holland and Pan Macmillan. Boomerang Books are selling ebooks in Epub which can be read on [...]
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New indie ebookstore launched in Australia
March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
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VTech Innopad launched
February 13th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
VTech has just announced their latest educational tablet, and this one’s targeted at the 4 to 9 year old audience. The Innopad is based on a 5″ screen, and it has a tilt sensor, microphone, USB, and a SD card slot. It also works as aMP3 player and video player. It’ll ship this fall for [...]
Lendink Library Launched
February 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · digital library
I’ve just come across another ebook lending site Lendink.This one supports both Kindle and Nook. P.S. This makes a total of 9 sites listed on my ebook lending library page. Pretty soon I’m going to have to figure out a better organizational system.
Marvel Comics now available on Chrome
February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Yesterday Marvel Comics announced that they were selling digital comics in a new ebookstore based in the Chrome browser. They’re offering 1600 titles for single issue purchase. “Marvel Comics on Chrome is the next step of Marvel’s commitment to making high definition digital comics available to users anytime, anywhere,” explained Ira Rubenstein, Executive Vice President, [...]
Kineo Android tablet launched today – first educ. tablet
February 1st, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news, video
Brainchild unveiled their new Android tablet at the Florida Educational Technology Conference today. The Kineo is targeted at primary and middle school students, and it’s based on a 7″ screen (800×480), with an 800MHz CPU, 2GB Flash, HDMI out, and Wifi. It has a MP4 player, Flash support, and it looks to be extremely rugged. [...]
New ebook distributor launched – BookBaby
January 12th, 2011 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: BookBaby throws open the doors to the electronic publishing and distribution world for independent authors, offering the highest pay-out rate for eBook distribution in the industry. Authors will receive 100% of their net sales revenue – paid weekly – generated through all BookBaby’s retailer network, including all the major retailers including [...]
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First One Digital Publishing launched today
January 11th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news, press release
The website for First One Digital Publishing went live today. They’re launching with 4 titles that they’re publishing this month (that’s not bad for an indie press). The ebooks are currently available in the Sony Store and the Kindle Store. There’s also a small library of free ebooks (mostly pd). From the press release:
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Finland’s first ebookstore launched today
January 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
From the press release: Kirjavälitys and MPS Limited are pleased to announce the launch of Finland’s first online eContent platform. The platform, powered by MPS’ online eContent platform, will host, sell, and distribute eBooks from Finnish publishers to both Finnish customers as well as international markets. Publishers who wish to sell their eContent through Kirjavälitys’platform [...]
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New project site launched for Augen The Book e-reader
December 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
I’ve just heard over at MobileRead that someone is starting a project with the goal of hacking Augen’s e-reader. His long term goal is to be able to use The Book as a limited netbook computer. This could be shiny, but only if Augen follows through and hands over the source code (as required by [...]
EbookBurn launched – new Epub creation service
December 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · ebook tools
On Sunday we saw the launch of a new ebook making service, EbookBurn. This is a subscription based service that can help you make Epub and Kindle ebooks. Have you made an ebook over at Feedbooks? It’s something like that. Subscriptions run from $30 (1 day) to $7,200 (1 year).
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