Tag: Ebooks
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…
Harry Potter headed to Google eBooks
Pottermore, the still-mysterious Harry Potter themed social network, is to team up with Google eBooks to sell the boy wizard's adventures in digital formats. US readers will be able to buy the Potter books through the Google store and…
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…
British Library team up with Google to digitise book catalogue
The British Library is set to bring its unrivalled collection of 17th and 18th century texts into the digital age through a new partnership with Google. Google are to digitise 250,000 texts, making them available to be searched and copied…
eBooks are now outselling paperbacks too
eBooks have outsold both traditional hardback and paperback book formats for the first time, according to the American Association of Publishers. $90.3 million worth of eBook sales were made in February 2011, an increase of 202% over the same month…
Mother's Day Gadgets Guide: As tested by Mum!
Mother's Day is just around the corner in the UK (Sunday the 3rd of April to be exact) and, if you're anything like me, it's going to be a last minute dash to the shops to pick up something…
Kindle eBooks now outselling paperback ones
Amazon's Kindle eBooks are now outselling their traditional paperback cousins, the company have revealed in the publication of their Q4 2010 financial results. 115 eBooks are now downloaded for every 100 paperbacks bought according to Amazon, with eBooks outselling hardbacks…
8 million Amazon Kindles sold in 2010
Despite the threat of full-blown tablet computers, it appears to have been a bumper year for Amazon's Kindle e-reader. According to Business Week, Amazon are on their way to selling a huge 8 million of the devices by the…
