Late yesterday Apple updated their iBooks app for iOS to version 1.2.2, bringing with it important stability and performance improvements, including addressing issues that occur when playing video from enhanced books from the iBookstore, and issues with books that have very long tables of contents. The update also resolves a problem were some books would […]
Today, Amazon announced an update to Kindle for Android that brings new features and adds support for tablet computers running Android’s Honeycomb, including the Motorola Xoom. The latest version of Kindle for Android includes an integrated immersive shopping experience tailored for tablets, a new layout for newspapers and magazines designed for the unique interface of […]
Amazon today announced users of its Kindle e-book reader and those with the Kindle app on other devices will now get the ability to borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 libraries in the US. Called simply Kindle Library Lending, the feature will arrive later this year. It will allow for Whispersyncing of notes, highlighting […]
The opening book of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has become what industry experts believe is the first novel to sell more than a million copies in e-book form, The New York Times reports. News of the million mark milestone comes via Knopf books, which is a subsidiary […]
Intel Capital today announced a $20 million investment in Kno Inc., an education software company. The investment is part of a $30 million Series-C round led by Intel Capital, which includes participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Advance Publications, First Round Capital, FLOODGATE and SV Angels. Kno will use the funding to develop its innovative educational software […]
Barnes & Noble today said it was planning a version of its Nook for Android app for Android 3.0 tablets. The update will be aimed at 10-inch tablets like the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The design would have a new grid view as well as graphics optimized for the larger screen size. […]
Barnes & Noble in posting results for its most recent quarter late Tuesday claimed to have gained market share for e-books in the US. The company claimed to have moved from its usual fifth of the market to 25 percent. It tied the success to that of the Nook and noted that it was selling […]
Kobo today announced that its social eReading experience, Kobo Reading Life, is now available for the iPhone. Reading Life is the industry’s first-ever global social eReading experience and is now available to both iPad and iPhone users. Reading Life is a fun, exciting way to allow users to dive deeper into their reading experience. Users […]
E-books are nearly a $1 billion business and should triple in size, Forrester said in a new forecast. The business should reach $966 million in e-books sold in 2010 alone and should triple to $3 billion in 2015. Book reading should be “forever altered” by that point, even if color e-paper and advancements to the […]
Amazon today cut the cord with native Kindle apps with a beta launch of Kindle for the Web. Previously, Kindle books, even samples, were inaccessible outside of native apps. The web base beta is currently focused on samples and gives authors or other writes a way of previewing a Kindle book. The design is touch […]
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