At Angry Robot we have always attempted to push boundaries with our fiction, and now we’re doing the same with both the content and delivery methods!
When Kaaron Warren told us she wanted to re-write her next book Walking the Tree as a 20,000 word novella from the point of view of one of the book’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ebooks’
News: Angry Robot Announces a New Way of Telling Stories (with added exclusive content)
News: iPad and iBooks
I’m not sure if you know but I’m a very big Apple fan and have been since 2000 when I bought an iMac. Since then I’ve owned an iBook (the laptop in 2004) and have had two upgrades since then. I also love my iPhone. So I’m going to be biased and bit excited when [...]
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 8 colours:
Ruby [...]
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 found [...]
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 the Bookseller which [...]
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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 [...]