Category: E-Books
Exclusive Steve Jobs biography extracts revealed
Extracts from the hotly-anticipated Steve Jobs biography have been revealed, giving a unique insight into the late Apple chief's brilliant mind. Published by Little, Brown and written by Waltar Isaacson, it is the only book to which the turtlenecked-one…
Google Books open for business in the UK
Google Books has finally gone live in the UK after being available Stateside for some months. Moving into the digital book space currently dominated by Amazon, British customers will also have access to an Android app through which they…
Amazon reveal Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G
Amazon's eReader range is about to get finger friendly with the launch of the Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G. The touchscreen readers with e-ink displays were revealed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today, doing away with the regular…
Dead Sea Scrolls brought to life online by Google
The 2,400 years old Dead Sea Scrolls are being brought into the digital age by Google, who've announced that the ancient texts are the latest they've managed to digitise and make available to all readers via the web. The…
US Kindle owners get ebook library loans
Amazon have launched a new service that will allow US Kindle owners to borrow eBooks from participating local libraries. Kindle book lending will be available at over 11,000 libraries across the States. "Starting today, millions of Kindle customers can borrow…
Waterstone's to launch e-reader Kindle rival
Waterstone's are preparing to launch an e-reader device next spring, according to the company's managing director James Daunt. Inspired by the success of US highstreet bookseller Barnes and Noble and their well-received Nook e-reader, Daunt told Raido 4 that the…
Inventor of the eBook, Michael Stern Heart, dies aged 64
Micheal Stern Heart, the inventor of the electronic book, or eBook, and founder of web-hosted literature resource Project Guttenberg, has died aged 64. After a spell in the armed forces serving in Korea, Heart headed over to the University of…
IFA 2011 – Sony drops new PRS-T1 ereader
Sony's new e-Reader, the Reader Wi-Fi or PRS-T1, has just been announced at IFA. Sony is dubbing it "the world's lightest e-Reader" and at a mere 168 grams no one's arguing with them just yet. As well as being light,…
Forget tablets: Amazon pushing forward with browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader
Amazon have launched a new browser-based web app called the Kindle Cloud Reader, using HTML5 tech to offer up their e-book reading experience. While many are expecting Amazon to launch two of their own tablet devices later this year,…
Textbook renting for students heading to Amazon Kindle
Starting university can be tough on your wallet; if you're not paying tuition fees, you're buying rounds for people you've just met at the student union, and that's before you've even thought about all the text books you're going…
