Kobo’s iPad app is the best ereader app on the market
If you have an iPad, you should download the free Kobo ereader app and check it out. Whether it offers a better basic reading experience than the other ereader apps is probably a...
9/11 Memorial iPhone app teaches about 9/11
In a related note to my 9/11 remembrance post yesterday, CNet reports on a new iPhone app released by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. The app serves as...
There is plenty to be thankful for in the e-book world
Happy Thanksgiving, those of you who celebrate it today! As I’ve done for the last couple of years, I looked back at previous Thanksgiving posts I made to see what...
Microsoft kills off Windows phone business; look for sales as bargain e-readers!
It appears you can stick a fork in Microsoft’s phone business. As Ars Technica and a number of other sources are reporting, it’s effectively done. Microsoft’s laying off nearly 2,000 people...
iPad magazines need to surmount price, distribution issues
A couple of interesting pieces have surfaced looking at fallout from yesterday’s news of iPad magazine sales declining. On The Next Web, Alex Wilhelm suggests that the iPad might yet “save...
Ex-Kobo developer: Apple in-app purchase system will not support Kobo-sized catalogs
Jim Dovey, formerly the Apple Platforms Team Lead for Kobo has posted a follow-up to his earlier post on the Apple subscription fee matter. (He wasn’t “former” when he posted the...
How reader technology has made me a smarter reader and learner
I read a few articles recently on how ebooks affect learning. On the con side, these articles pointed out that textbooks are often less available in ebook (true), that the e-versions...
Spring Design lawsuit against Barnes & Noble moves forward
We first covered the lawsuit by Spring Design, maker of the dual-screened Alex e-reader, against Barnes & Noble back in November, 2009. Spring Design claimed that it had designed the Alex...
Readability runs afoul of Apple’s in-app subscription policy
Remember Readability’s new plan for providing a read-it-later service with a monthly fee they could use partly to compensate the producers of web-based media for people using Readability to cut out...
Publishing living in world not of its own making, Mike Shatzkin says
Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin has posted another opinion piece on his blog, in which he looks at the recent banishment of the Google Books app and Kobo’s in-app store as the...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
