From the press release: Kobo, a global eReading service, today announced that a selection of the most popular newspapers and magazines are now available for download with a two -week FREE trial from the Kobo store. Effective immediately, dozens of top U.S. and Canadian publications have been added to Kobo, which currently boasts over 2.2 million eBooks including the hottest new releases, New York Times bestsellers, timeless literary masterpieces and thousands of free titles. The Kobo Store now offers the following digital publications across select Kobo devices and Apps: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The...

Here’s some interesting synchronicity: at about the same time as a Twitter-based long-article aggregation service gains a website, a website-based such service jumps to Twitter. Longreads started out as a Twitter feed for articles between 1,500 and 30,000 words long. It now has its own website, Longreads.com, which serves as an aggregator, archive, and search tool for the service. The man behind the project, Mark Armstrong, said he wants it to serve as a “Techmeme for long stories”. I learned about this move in an article on TechCrunch by M.G. Siegler in which he said he uses Instapaper...

The Consumerist carries a warning to Barnes & Noble Nook owners: be sure you update regularly, or else your Nook could lose all your e-books and documents and Barnes & Noble will tell you it’s your own fault. A Nook owner tried to turn his device on this morning and found that it wouldn’t start up, then it had an “updating” screen—and when it finished updating, it had deleted all his files, including documents not loaded from B&N. He was told he needed to reregister the Nook and when he did his B&N e-books would be reloaded, but...

The Kobo app has been updated to version 3.7. According to the App Store the changes are: Supports reading newspaper and magazine content on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Turn a page using a page curl, just like turning a page in a real book Touch and hold any word to look it up in the built-in English dictionary or Wikipedia, or search for it online with Google Addresses a minor issue when reading while not connected to a WiFi or cellular data network If you look at the page curl change, it seems as if Kobo is saying that their ebooks are not...

This was mentioned at the press event yesterday. Now comes the details. From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced NOOKdeveloper, a program that enables content providers and the developer community to deliver new and innovative reading experiences using Barnes & Noble's open eReading platform. With the new program, Barnes & Noble is inviting content providers and developers to create, market and sell content and applications that enrich, extend and expand reading for millions of Barnes & Noble customers, beginning with the newly announced NOOKcolor, the first full-color touch Reader's...

Mike Masnick on Techdirt had a longer article yesterday about the comic book piracy incident I mentioned the other day, where artist Steve Lieber found that his entire graphic novel Underground had been scanned and posted to a 4chan web forum. There’s too much interesting stuff in the article for me to summarize easily, so I’ll just hit a few points. When Lieber was notified his book had been pirated, he assumed he’d just find a link to a zip file somewhere. Instead, he found that it had been posted page by page. ...

James Patterson has sold, according to Amazon, 1,005,803 Kindle books as of yesterday. Patterson is the second member of the "Kindle Million Club", the first being Stieg Larsson, author of the Millenium Trilogy, who hit the mark first....

The Guardian has an article on the UK-based Publishers Association’s recent decision to restrict libraries from lending e-books remotely (which we carried Eoin Purcell’s blog post decrying a few days ago). This article goes into a little more detail about the basis of the decision. Apparently e-book readers in China were “joining British libraries and plundering their virtual collections for free,” which is of course an abrogation of the same territorial rights that have caused e-book stores such as Amazon or Waterstone’s to stop selling e-book editions outside their licensed countries. From that point of view, it’s understandable...

From the press release: Vook, the leading digital publisher that lights up the world's content with its mixed-media reading experience, today announced a digital serial rights program that provides authors and publishers with new opportunities for their books, e-books, audio books, and iPad and iPhone applications to reach new audiences and create new revenue streams. Vook premieres this groundbreaking program with "Bernhard Schlink on The Weekend," a new title from Schlink, the New York Times best-selling author of "The Reader." Schlink's new Vook offers four chapters of the new novel as well as a complete Schlink short story, "A Little Fling,"...

E-Ink-Info has a review of Phosphor's newest e ink watch. It costs $150 and is available from their own store. ...

From the Announcement: Fotonauts Inc., makers of Fotopedia.com, the first collaborative photo encyclopedia, today announced the launch of Fotopedia Heritage 2.0, a free application for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Created in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the visually stunning downloadable app provides a virtual passport to the hundreds of World Heritage sites that constitute the world’ s collective cultural and natural human legacy. Fotopedia Heritage now offers more than 25,000 awe-inspiring photos and grows every day, thanks to the contributions of the Fotopedia community – which consists of 30,000 photographers and curators who help enable this endless visual journey. See...

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