Business Wire is carrying an Amazon press release indicating that Windows Phone 7 will be the next mobile operating system to obtain a Kindle Reader app, later this year. The app will include the standard Kindle features, such as whispersync to keep your place in the book you’re reading on whatever platform you’re reading it, and will also incorporate personalized book recommendations and the ability to send a recommendation to a friend without leaving the app. Amazon certainly isn’t letting any grass grow under its feet when it comes to targeting the most commonly-used mobile platforms. It’s just...

Following up to my post about Augen devices last night, I just called the Kmart in Branson and spoke to them, and what they had in stock was the e-book reader, and one remaining unit of an Augen netbook different from the one Engadget found. Engadget’s find was an Android “smartbook” with a 400 MHz processor and 128 megabytes of RAM, but Branson has one clearanced unit of what appears to be this model listed for $75 (currently out of stock) on Geeks.com, or $67.99 + $9.99 shipping at NewEgg (apparently in stock), a Windows CE “smartbook” with...

Does anybody know … of a stable ebook reader, preferably free, for windows mobile that supports EPUB format? There are a couple of claimants that I’ve found lacking: Freda, which seems buggy (wants upgrade of dotnet compact framework, for no apparent reason); and also mobi, which doesn’t support EPUB seamlessly, if at all. Thanks for the feature and the opportunity! Dana Technorati Tags: e-book, e-books, ebook, ebooks, Paul Biba, Windows Mobile, ereader, e-reader, ereaders, e-readers, Does anybody know? ...

I ran across a post in the baen.EBookReader forum of Baen’s Bar from someone who said he got “format bait-and-switched” by Barnes and Noble. He said he ordered the e-book of D. D. Barant’s Dying Bites expecting to get the eReader format, which is what they had last time he shopped there. Instead, he  got an ePub—which didn’t do him any good because he reads e-books on his Palm. Curious, I went to Barnes & Noble to check for myself. I loaded up the page and cast myself in the role of the average consumer who knows...

Earlier today, I happened to be looking back at a post I wrote three months ago, casting the iPod Touch as “Apple’s game-changer”. Today in the New York Times, Jenna Wortham wrote that “Apple’s game-changer” is something else: the entire App Store concept. “[Before the App Store came about, it] took six to nine months to build a relationship with a carrier, maybe a quarter-million to get the infrastructure built, and the company took 50 percent or more from each dollar,” [Flurry marketing executive Peter] Farago says, a process that limited access to mobile platforms....

ZuluReader lets you read ePub files on a Windows-based PDA or smartphone, PC or laptop....

Over at ZDNet Jason Hiner has one of the best articles I've read about the state of the smartphone market, and the prospects for its various players. This is an important topic for e-books because smartphones, from everything I read, are the fastest growing segment of the phone market today. Each and every one of these smartphones can make a very capable e-book reader. I have a Palm Treo 680 which runs the Palm OS, MWg Zinc II which runs Windows Mobile, iPhone, and a Nokia E71 which runs Symbian. All of these phone make decent...