Frankly, I find Calibre to be a bloated (210.8 MB compared to Bookle's 4.1 MB) and poorly - implemented app that's horrible to use, and for reading ebooks it actually launches a separate
ebook app called E-book Viewer.
Not exact matches
One way the library is promoting reading is through a new reading
app called Open
eBooks.
Mobile devices let users make
calls and send text messages, browse the web, read
ebooks, view video and listen to audio, and to use any of over 1 million free and paid
apps.
There's a new iPhone and iPad
app from eBooks.com
called Ebook Reader.
If the file needs conversion before it's transferred to your device, there is a free conversion
app called Calibre that is designed to do exactly that: convert a DRM - free
eBook from one format to another.
Thought I'd leave a note to let you know about an
app called BitLit that lets you get
ebook versions of your print books.
First Book, a new nonprofit, White House - led initiative, has joined forces with publishers, other nonprofits, and the New York Public Library to create an
app called Open
eBooks that will bring free literature to students across the country.
From syncing your books across devices to purchasing from a variety of retail partners, it's a pretty compelling proposition for relatively uninformed book lovers who've not yet made the switch to
ebooks and have presumably not heard of a little company
called Amazon and their newfangled Kindle ereader and related
apps.
A while back it was popular at many of the bigger publishers out there to release
apps that they
called «enhanced
ebooks».
Right before Overdrive finally came out with their
app for library eBooks, a really great free App was published called BlueFire Reader for the iP
app for library
eBooks, a really great free
App was published called BlueFire Reader for the iP
App was published
called BlueFire Reader for the iPad.
One month ago Good e-Reader released a new Android
app called Audiobook Reader and it utilizes Amazon Polly TTS to turn any
ebook into an audiobook.
Finding the right
eBook reader
apps (also
called eReaders) can be difficult.
As part of the
app, Amazon and Samsung are launching a free
ebook service,
called Samsung Book Deals.
There's a new
ebook reading platform
called Blio for Windows computers and tablets, with
apps for iOS, Android, and Silverlight platforms coming soon.
A blog / site
called Asymco that
calls itself «Curated Market Intelligence» exhibits its special brand of intelligence with a claim that «
Apps are 15 times more popular than
ebooks».
It's kind of like Amazon subbing out the Kindle store to a company — let's
call them Monkey Brain Books — that sells Kindles to inner city zoologists and decides to put their brand name on the existing Kindle
ebook store that's been around for years, and redo the
apps to say Monkey Brain Books.
Amazon announced today that the Kindle and Kindle reading
apps will soon be getting support for library books through a service
called OverDrive, which currently provides access to over 11,000 libraries in the United States with support for just about every
ebook reader but the Kindle.
Back in June OverDrive released a new
app called Libby for borrowing
ebooks and audiobooks from public libraries for free.
Amazon has released a really cool new application for Windows computers
called Send to Kindle that allows Kindle users to easily upload and send personal documents and non-Amazon
ebooks to Kindle devices, Kindle
apps, and Amazon's cloud from a personal computer.
This week Google announced on Twitter that they've introduced a new font type
called Literata for their Play Books
app that was designed specifically for
ebooks.
First, unlike
ebook markets such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, where authors and publishers basically decide what gets sold in the store, certain mobile application marketplaces (notably, the Apple
App Store) use what could be
called a curated model.
The fact that Amazon has
called it «Kindle» rather than «Amazon» Worlds clearly defines Kindle Worlds as an
ebook venture, tied to the Kindle reading device /
app.
Toshiba has said the Folio 100 will ship with a wide selection of applications pre - installed; amongst them Opera Mobile (web browser), FBReader (
ebook reader), Document To Go (office suite), Evernote (notes), Adobe Flash 10.1 and Fring, and an
app that in combination with the embedded webcam allows video
calls with friends and family.
An e-reading application, also
called an «e-reading
app,» is software designed for reading
ebooks.
now if Kindle could come up with a concept like this for kindle 4 and have the rumored android device more as a entertainment device that has it download store movies, android
apps, kindle, mp3 music all on one device to take on ipad than I might be a little more intrested I just can't see paying for a device from a company that has
called chapter 11 and and have a canadian
ebook company that can't get the rights to some of the better american author like apple and amazon has done
Kate Tilton presents This is How to Find Your Readers Using
eBook Bundling posted at Kate Tilton, Connecting Authors & Readers, saying, «This article explains a new free app called Shelfie that gets books off the shelves by offering free or deeply discounted ebook editions of those print b
eBook Bundling posted at Kate Tilton, Connecting Authors & Readers, saying, «This article explains a new free
app called Shelfie that gets books off the shelves by offering free or deeply discounted
ebook editions of those print b
ebook editions of those print books.
Think of it as
eBook reader meets speed reading
app; that's why we
call it «The Speed Reading
eBook Reader.»
In Tuesday's earnings
call, B&N's Lynch said
apps and digital newsstand sales growth is «a little higher» than
ebook growth.