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Ebrary add fiction titles to library offering

January 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · press release

From the press release: In response to requests from the public library community, ebrary today announced that it has added popular fiction e-books to Public Library Complete™. The collection now includes more than 3,200 e-books in romance, science fiction, mysteries, children’s fiction, and other types of fiction published in 2010 and earlier.

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AmazonEncore to publish 16 titles this spring and summer

January 19th, 2011 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Amazon.com today announced that AmazonEncore will introduce 16 books this late spring and summer–all of them novels. AmazonEncore books are available in print format at www.amazon.com and national and independent booksellers, and as wireless digital downloads in less than 60 seconds from the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) to Kindle devices and Kindle [...]

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Kobo add 175k titles to ebookstore

January 8th, 2011 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Kobo, the only pure-play global eReading service built on an open platform, today introduced more than 175,000 PDFs geared towards education and self-education for much less than the cost of a textbook. Content is in digital PDF format and is available to download and read through the Kobo Desktop Application, on [...]

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comiXology celebrate 1 million app downloads, 5k titles in ebookstore

December 29th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: New York, NY, January 3rd, 2011 – comiXology, the leading digital comic book provider, today announced it is kick starting the New Year with more than 5,000 digital comics available on its platform. The expansion of its library follows a banner year in 2010 with comic book fans everywhere making it [...]

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Amazon score new exclusive – 5 new titles from The Onion

December 9th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the national newspaper and website the Onion has created five e-Book collections exclusively for the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). These collections, presented by the Onion –”America’s Finest Tech News,” “Chronicles of the Area Man,” “The Finest Reporting on Literature, Media, and Other Dying Art Forms,” “The Best [...]

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New audiobook publisher launched – all titles DRM free

October 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release

From the press release: We are pleased to announce Iambik Audio, a new kind of audiobook company, launching today with 11 literary fiction audiobooks from independent presses in the US and Canada. In the collection, Iambik is launching audiobooks of one giant of American letters, Gordon Lish (including a selection of stories read by Mr. [...]

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Nearly 800 O’Reilly and Microsoft titles now available in iBookstore, DRM free

October 12th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: Nearly 800 O’Reilly Media and Microsoft Press titles are available for sale on Apple’s iBookstore starting today. The iBookstore is included in the free iBooks app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.The more than 600 titles in the iBookstore from O’Reilly include Jeff Potter’s Cooking for Geeks, David Pogue’s iPhone: [...]

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CreateSpace to carry 50k titles from the Library of Congress

October 5th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) group of companies, today announced an agreement with The Library of Congress to make at least 50,000 public books available through www.amazon.com. The Library of Congress also reached an agreement with Amazon Europe to make tens of thousands of books in the public domain [...]

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iBooks only have 33k titles, and other embarrassing details

September 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news

An interesting article was posted on Monday about the relative sizes of the various ebookstores. It took me a couple days to think about and double check his methodology. I’m now confident that I can tell you the data is not valid and I can show you why.

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Shmoop released 1000 new titles for iBooks, Android apps

August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

I’ve used their ebooks on one occasion. I got mine through the Kindle Store, and it was a pretty good study guide. From the press release:

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