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Feedbooks eBookstore Opens

November 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

by  Mike Cane They’ve had one for French-language eBooks for a few weeks and today the English-language store opened. It’s early days, so there are many gaps (no Ken Bruen, not all of Christopher Fowler, as two examples), but the interface is fast and clean with many sort options. Click = big Plus, Feedbooks has [...]

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Kobo opens NYC office

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

From the Kobo blog: New York, Meet Kobo… With Kobo and US publishers, it’s been a long-distance relationship. Lots of planes, a river of email, plenty of phone and Skype. And like all long-distance relationships, it starts to get a little tired. Another meal at the airport. You wonder if they’re seeing someone else. You [...]

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Canadian iBookstore opens today

July 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news

Apple chose today, Canada Day,  to announce the opening of the Canadian iBookstore.Three of the big 5 present at the launch of the US iBookstore will have titles ready to sell: Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins. Sigh. It’s good and all that we are seeing more competition, but I’d like to see an ebookstore [...]

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Qualcomm announce app store for Brew

June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

From the press release: Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) today announced the availability of an application store to bring Brew® apps and services to consumers in open markets.  The first application store will be managed by SINA, the largest infotainment Web portal in China, whose strong brand awareness in China will provide both local and global [...]

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China Telecom’s ebookstore to launch in July

June 25th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

The mainland China market is so huge I thought this was worth it’s own post. China Tech News is reporting: The once-postponed mobile phone reading service of China Telecom will now reportedly be formally launched in late July 2010. An insider revealed to the local media that the related departments of China Telecom have started [...]

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Liberties Press opens own ebookstore

May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Liberties Press announced Tuesday that they are selling ebooks on their site. They’re only in PDF at the moment, but it’s a start. (It’ s also more that Macmillan can accomplish.) BTW, they’re also the first Irish publisher to sell ebooks directly. Five titles are available now: Second Readings: 52 – From Beckett to Black [...]

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Idefix opens ebookstore

April 18th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Istanbul based web retailer Idefix has just opened Turkey’s first ebookstore.  Idefix currently has only a few hundred e-books, but they expect to have 6k by the end of the year and to 30k within two years. Yes, this is rather small when compared to US, but the Turkish book market is a small one, [...]

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Irish Bookseller Eason Opens Ebookstore

March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Eason & Son has expanded their website to include a new ebookstore. Eason has been selling Sony ebook readers for some time and these are also available in the new ebook section. The store offers a Best of Irish Section and a range of titles from new releases to classics. It also has some of [...]

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