Simon & Schuster created a new website, called Off the Shelf, that’s intended to help to maximize your reading enjoyment by helping you discover books – cult classics or best sellers – that you may have missed over the years. It’s brought to you by “passionate editors, authors, and others inside the book business”, and […]
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I just received an email from Sony about their decision to close their US and Canadian eReader Stores this Spring (March 20, 2014). That’s the bad news… The good news is that all the existing eReader accounts will be transferred over to Kobo. See email details after the jump.
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A couple months ago, we told you about Amazon’s new Kindle MatchBook service, which will give you access to eBook versions of paper books you bought from them in the past. Whether you bought them years ago or last week, you can get the eBook version for no more than $2.99, and some may be
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If you have any interest in astronomy – backyard hobbist or more serious scientist – you need to download this free eBook to your iBooks app on your iPad. (Requires an iPad using iBooks 2 or later and iOS 5 or later.) This is a huge book, almost 1GB, that’s chock full of informative text,
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Yesterday, Barnes & Noble introduced Nook for Web, “an innovative and free new browser experience that offers readers the ability to explore the hottest digital titles and bestselling books right from their computer – no sign-in, software download or NOOK account required to begin reading” on their PC or Mac. With the Nook Cloud service,
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On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Justice filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Group USA and Simon & Schuster. (Note: Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have tentatively agreed to a settlement and, if approved, should be removed from the list of defendants.) In the past couple years our
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(S)mythology is the story of Sophie, a little girl with magical super powers, told as a whimsical, young-adult tale of true love that mixes pop culture with Greek mythology. This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Jeremy Tarr (the author) and the Keep a Breast Foundation have joined forces to raise money for breast cancer awareness. For
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I’ve been a fan of ebooks for many years, starting with Peanut Press books on my Handspring Visor Deluxe back around 1999. After writing code for 9 hours/day for many years, you can imagine my wrists were shot, and I loved ebooks because they weren’t as heavy and hard to hold as a physical book.
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I’ve been waiting for a dedicated eBook reader with a backlit color display since the early days of the original Sony Reader. During that wait, I found myself using my current smartphone as an eBook reader due to the fact that it is always with me and has a color display. The Barnes & Noble
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Barnes & Noble is introducing a free application designed to lighten your load this school year. NOOKstudy works on PC or Mac (no nook required), and lets you instantly download eTextbooks and save up to 40%. You’ll also have access to 1 million other books. With Nookstudy, you can keep your textbooks, class handouts, and
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Barnes and Noble is offering five free ebooks for owners of any device using Barnes and Noble ebook reader software. Owners of the nook reader qualify, as do people using the B&N ebook reader software on their iPhone/iPod touch or Blackberry. You just bring your mobile device in, show it to an employee, and you’ll receive
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Did you know that March 7-13, 2010 is “Read an eBook week“? Since 2004, Read an eBook week has been registered in the Chase’s Calendar of Events. The purpose of the week is to “educate and inform the public about the pleasures and advantages of reading electronically. Authors, publishers, vendors, the media and readers world-wide are welcome to
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Questia is an online research library with current non-fiction and reference books and periodicals. For $9.95 a month, you get access to all their books on any one topic, or you can access their entire catalog of more than 70,000 titles for $19.95 a month. You’ll have an online workspace to store your notes in folders; you can
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In October, Julie had an article about vooks – a melding of ebooks with multimedia content. They can be read on your computer (through paid web access) or on your iPhone. At the time, Julie said there were only four titles available. It seems they are up to six titles now. I was digging around with
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