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Amazon offers up to 80% off digital textbook rentals

, Jul 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

Amazon has gone and done all the college students out there a solid with a new savings program for textbooks. Amazon is offering students 80% off the price of any print textbook as a digital rental on the Kindle. That means you can get your books in digital format, save a ton of loot, and hit the parents up for a new eReader with justification. The only downside I see is that you won't be able to sell your books for beer money after dropping a class. Read The Full Story

iRiver Story HD Review

, Jul 16th 2011 Discuss [10]

The iRiver Story HD is touted as the very first e-reader to have Google eBookstore integration. The original iRiver Story has been called an Amazon Kindle clone, but this new model affixed with “HD” to its name now sports a higher XGA (1024×768) resolution display and some unusual design tweaks. Priced to compete with the Kindle at $139, the iRiver Story HD is hitting stores July 17, but should you plan to pick one up? Continue after the cut for the full review.

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Al Gore, Ex-Apple Engineers Make First Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform, Push Pop Press

, Apr 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

E-books have become increasingly popular with the adoption of eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble NOOK, with even library lending of e-books on the rise. Stepping up from eReaders we get full on tablets that add another level of full color touchscreen interactivity. But up until now, e-books have remained just static digital versions of the original. That's about to change. Read The Full Story

Amazon Library Lending for Kindle eBooks coming later in 2011

, Apr 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

Unofficial ebook libraries, where users share digital books between themselves, have flourished in a murky legal halfway house so far, but Amazon is looking to make the whole thing official - albeit on its own terms. Later this year will see the launch of Library Lending for Kindle Books, offering Kindle-format ebooks from 11,000 libraries across the US. Read The Full Story

Google Books App Update Includes iPad Landscape Mode

, Apr 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

The Google Books app for iOS devices has just been updated with several new features including landscape viewing mode optimized for iPads. The app still lags behind apps for Amazon's Kindle, Apple's iBooks, and the Barnes & Noble Nook, but this new update shows more effort. Read The Full Story

Google Books Settlement Gets Rejected By U.S. District Court

, Mar 22nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Earlier today a U.S. District Court in New York rejected Google’s book settlement with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers. The Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) allowed Google to scan whatever books it wanted and index them online. Read The Full Story

Re-Inventing the Book in the Digital Age

, Mar 14th 2011 Discuss [4]

For a while now we, at Creative Strategies, have been involved in projects within the digital reader ecosystem. We have been talking and working with both publishers and hardware OEM’s who either have a presence or want a presence in this market. E-Readers and Tablet sales combined could be between 60-70 million in 2011*.

Regardless of where we are now in the adoption cycle of e-readers and tablets one thing is now clear: the shift from analog to digital in books is happening rapidly.

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Random House ebooks make early iBookstore debut

, Mar 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Ebooks from publisher Random House have begun to show up in Apple's iBookstore, ahead of what's likely to be a name-check at the iPad 2 event in just a few hours time. The publisher had announced a switch to so-called Agency Pricing - in which publishers not retailers set the consumer prices for each electronic title, and then provide the retailers with a commission for the sale - earlier in the week. Read The Full Story

NOOKcolor Owner Creates Custom BOOKcase

, Feb 1st 2011 Discuss [4]

This is not the first time that someone's carved out a book to put electronics inside (everyone in the worlds' favorite case being, of course, in the The Matrix ala Neo's hacker disks,) but it is the first time we've seen one with a NOOKcolor in it. And not only that, but this particular book is heavily ironic, a great choice to be cutting up: Future Consumer .com, a book by Frank Feather. Read The Full Story

eBook Technologies Acquired by Google

, Jan 12th 2011 Discuss [5]

Google has just acquired a company by the name of eBook Technologies. What is this place, you might ask? It's a search engine! Oh I got you, good joke. This group eBook Technologies is what appears to be a small company (just judging by the design of the site) that has big potential (just judging by the company that just acquired them), and is aimed at supplying "intelligent reading devices and licenses technologies that enable automated publishing and control over content distribution. Read The Full Story

B&N NOOKcolor took retailer’s top spot; almost 1m ebooks sold on Dec 25 [Updated]

, Dec 30th 2010 Discuss [2]

Barnes & Noble has announced that its NOOK range has become the retailer's biggest selling line in the company's history, with the NOOKcolor taking the number one spot as the best-selling gift of the holidays. Meanwhile, almost one million B&N ebooks were purchased on Christmas Day, despite widespread reports of server issues plaguing the service for the holiday weekend. Updated with B&N statement on the server outages after the cut Read The Full Story

Google eBookstore official: iOS & Android apps, plus eBook Web Reader

, Dec 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Google has launched its play for the ebook market, in the shape of the new Google eBookstore along with ereader apps for Android and for iOS devices. Offering over 3m titles - made up of new bestsellers and free public-domain ebooks - the Google eBookstore also supports an online eBooks Web Reader, with browser-based access to a cloud-store of content. Read The Full Story
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