Beginning on the 27th August Amazon are going to release a UK-centric Kindle e-ink e-reader to a book-loving British public and with it they are finally bringing us a UK-priced UK-focused ebook store on Amazon.co.uk. The reason I’m mentioning it now is that the Kindle UK store went live today, which is good news for [...]
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New Releases: The Good Man Jesus & The Scoundrel Christ iPhone App
Enhanced Editions and Canongate Books today announced the launch of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ on the App Store. The app, which includes an enhanced e?book, audiobook and exclusive videos of Philip Pullman reading the book, has been developed for iPhone and iPod touch users, and will be available on the iPad. [...]
Comment: More on the “International” Amazon.com Kindle
I had a feeling yesterday that this was going to be messy and I was right! The messiest bit from mine and your points of view is that at the minute you’re going to be buy an American focused product which Amazon.com will kindly let you use in the UK, and other countries except Canada [...]
News: Amazon.com’s Kindle coming to the UK, kinda
Well that was a surprise this morning to wake up to the news (via @guardianbooks on twitter) that Amazon.com had announced that you’d know be able to use the Kindle (their version of an ebook reader) in more than 100 countries. But and there is a but you can only order directly from their US [...]
Ebooks: COOL-ER Launches in the UK
Ok, so it’s not available until the end of June but the launch of the COOL-ER ereader in the UK has me excited. Not only is it £189.99, comparable to the Sony Reader 505 which sells for £199 in Waterstones £179.99 in WHSMITHs with £10 voucher, but also it comes in a choice of [...]
News: Sony Reader Sales Figures
If you haven’t figured it out by now I’m a bit of a geek on the side. I love my tech so you’ll have to forgive me for going on about the Sony Reader again. I’m also getting to be a big fan of twitter – a great way of keeping up to date. I [...]
Comment: Stanza Counts One Million Downloads
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat is reporting that: Lexcycle recently revealed that their iPhone and iPod Touch e-book reader had been downloaded one million times in 2008 It seems that people who have their internet, email and the other brilliant apps on their iPhone are also using it to read from. That includes me. It also links to [...]
Comment: iPhone and ebooks
I haven’t talked about ebooks for a while. I do on the whole think that ebooks are a wonderful idea. I’m more than happy with my Sony Reader 505 (SR) that I had for Christmas last year. And since I’ve had it I’ve bought 13 books for it, which isn’t bad considering that I have [...]