According to eBookNewser the application has been released for smartphones. They are reporting that Kobo has said it will support other Android devices such as tablets, netbooks and ereaders in the near future. More info here. Just noticed that Stanza has been updated. Here's what the App Store says: Improved stability when upgrading with extremely large libraries; Fix for some CBZ import failures; Make status bar black when hide status preference is disabled; Use PDF keywords as subjects when importing PDFs...

Sarah Chubb, President, Conde Nast Digital; Matt Jones, VP Mobile Strategy and Operations, Gannett Digital; Jeff Price, President and Publisher, Sporting News; Vijay Ravindran, Senior PP and Chief Digital Officer, The Washington Post Company; Marion Maneker, Columnist, The Big Money, moderator. Sarah Chubb: Spent a lot of time thinking about "who we are". One of answers is that they are known for a high level of engagement with audience. If are Conde customer you will probably get a number of their products and will expect them to be on multiple platforms. Invested a lot in iPad and...

This is from their "About" page: BookRix is an internet portal and the first book community where anyone can place their own books, short stories, poems etc. to be promoted on the web, just like a published piece. The massive Web 2.0 - Projects, which have been hugely popular with music, video and photography fans, now have a sister platform, which will delight literature fans around the world: BookRix. BookRix provides an online destination where authors can showcase their work. Registered users will get to design their own personal profile page. This gives users the opportunity to create their own books, recommend...

The Kindle Web-browser expanded to 52 more countries?It looks as if Jay Marine, director of product management for Kindle, was serious when he was reported to have said that Amazon does intend to enable its experimental browser in every countryAmazon I had wondered when I read posts from Kindle-owners in other countries that their Kindles were suddenly enabled to use the Experimental Web browser, if that was because in setting up the new software update, they may have inadvertently enabled the web browser for other countries other than the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico? This happened with Canada the first few...

I am probably an anomaly in the digital age. I do not own any Apple products (except the free version of QuickTime that has been forced on me) and have no plans to acquire any Apple products. I am not particularly impressed by the iPad or the iPod, and see the iPhone as just a money sinkhole. I used to think how great it would be to be able to build a computer to my own specifications and use the MacOS, but that never occurred because Apple doesn’t permit it. Of course, that was also in the days when I believed...

Got the following email from Laisvunas Sopauskas: Just found PHP class which according to the author "provides a pure PHP solution to build ebooks in the Epub format". You can find it here. The class is already used at least in one application. The solution might be of high quality since it was nominated for PHP innovation award 2010. From the linked website: This class can be used to create create an ebook in EPUB format for Apple iPad and other ebook readers. It can set the ebook details like the author, publisher, comments, etc., as well the ebook chapter data. The class builds an...

While many libraries, both public and academic, have implemented digital resources for their patrons in bits and pieces, I would argue that now is the time for libraries to work on putting together a comprehensive digital branch approach, offering millions of books, millions of newspapers and magazines, and open acess 24/7.   Given the facts of mass digitization of titles, free-to-use API's,  and social sharing of resources, the digital library branch is a reality that can be implemented.  Here's how.... Every library needs a place to start, so our digital branch will be created on a branch of the current library web...

Wingedchariot has launched a picture book app for children on the iPad. They claim that it is the first one. At $2.99, the book can be read in English, Estonian and Japanese and will work on the iPhone and iPad Touch as well. The book includes animations and stickers. The "stickers" can be printed, resized and emailed to friends. If anyone reads it please let us know what it is like. The iTunes link is here....

David Morgenstern has an editorial on ZDNet in which he predicts a grim future for e-book device manufacturers that aren’t Apple. He notes that over the last few days, not one but two high-profile tablets have been cancelled—Microsoft’s two-screened Courier and HP’s Windows 7 slate—and he lays their cancellation squarely at the feet of the iPad. He also suggests that the three million unit guesstimate being tossed around for the Kindle device’s sales may be grossly overinflated, and it might well have sold below one million. (Though, given Amazon’s reticence to release numbers, either guess is probably equally valid.) Meanwhile,...

While many of us are aware of the legal wrangling going on with the Google Books settlement, this doesn't take away from the virtual cornucopia of materials available for your reading device.  Through their mobile version, http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/, or regular ePub/PDF download, there are lots of options to consider.  However, there might be too many options if you don't get your saved resources organized....   What I'm talking about is customizing your Google Books materials for your device via the My Library and Bookshelves options.  Recently reworked and updated, this can prove a great way to customize and sort your saved books by subject, type,...

The Kobo Reader will be hitting retail over the next two months, and I was delighted to get my hands on a loaner unit to offer you an early look. My device is definitely a beta version---the desktop software it comes with for Mac and Windows was not fully operable, and the magazine and newspaper subscriptions were not active on either the device or the Kobo website. So don't take my review as the final word---rather, this is a teaser of what you can expect from the Kobo Reader and on how it stacks up to the other...

Dear Publishers, Now that you have your 'agency' contracts (such as they are) in place and are moving on, in your own heads anyway, to Ebook 2.0, can we please start tightening things up a little with some standards? Customers need to know that they can have a reliable, consistent experience in getting the content they want to pay you their hard-earned money for (and at over 1 billion downloads, the iTunes music store has proven people will pay for their content!) They don't have that now, and it needs to happen fast. Here are the first two areas you should work...