J.K. Rowling made a splash when she announced Harry Potter will be available as ebooks for the first time, through a Pottermore website launching this Australian spring. Thankfully she’s allowed Google – and these ereaders – a chance to actually, y’know, read them.
Though it sorta looks like a classier but blinged out Kindle, the iRiver Story HD is actually the first ebook reader that’ll be integrated with Google eBooks. Which means you can buy Google eBooks over Wi-Fi.
Last week we were all calling it Google Editions, but now their ebook download store is known as Google eBooks. It’s available now for Android and Apple devices as a free app, with the three million books varying in price.