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Upload Personal Docs To Google Play

And read them anywhere! You can keep up to 1,000 EPUB or PDF files in Google Play for free. You’re able to upload from your PC or import from Google Drive. More details at [Google]

6 April 2013

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Why Do We Keep Making Ebooks Like Paper Books?

Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book — nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new medium, stuck in an awkward growing stage.

8 February 2013

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Amazon Has A Patent To Sell Used Ebooks

The problem with most ebooks is you can’t exactly give them with a friends or pass them onto your children when you’re done. But Amazon might actually address that with a new patent to sell used ebooks.

7 February 2013

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Readmill: A Beautiful Ebook Reader For Your iPhone

Sure, reading on a bigger screen is always preferred but maybe you don’t want to take your iPad with you everywhere? No problem. Readmill is a reader intended for a smaller space.

6 February 2013

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Apple’s iBookstore Now Highlights Self-Published Ebooks

Apple has added a new section of the iBookstore called “Breakout Books” that highlights up and coming self-published books from “emerging talents”.

5 February 2013

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Would You Buy Ebooks On A Pay-As-You-Read Basis?

An Israeli start-up called TotalBooX is planning to “disrupt” the ebook market by selling books on a pay-as-you-read basis. Would you be interested?

25 January 2013

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Amazon Buys Text-To-Speech Company To Improve Its… Zzzz…

Amazon bought a thing that does a thing Amazon also does, so presumably the first thing will help out with Amazon’s thing, we think.

17 January 2013

Geek Out

Emailing Jeff Bezos Every Time You Read A Kindle Book Is The Best Art Project

Everyone wants you to share. Share the music you listen to, the movies you watch, the articles you read, the books you read. So Johannes Osterhoff is sharing — with the guy in charge.

14 January 2013

Geek Out

San Antonio Launching The First Completely Bookless Public Library

Books, who needs ‘em? Libraries? Not anymore they don’t. The first public, bookless library is coming to San Antonio over in the States soon and, possibly, to a (dystopic?) future near you.

9 January 2013

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McGraw-Hill’s SmartBooks: Digital Textbooks With Built-In Drill Sergeants

When textbooks were actually books, they were good for flattening posters and bringing monitors to eye level. Now their ebook personas may really force you to learn. Grim, I know.

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