The new Play Books typeface is also meant to establish a recognisable visual identity for Google's
native eBook App and stylistically distinguish itself from other e-reader competitors.
The iPad does support Kindle books via the Kindle App & other ePub books, iBooks is Apple's
native eBook App but Windows7 doesn't have a
native eBook app.
Not exact matches
Navigation is of course very intuitive for both the
native Apple
apps and also the Stanza and eReader
eBook readers.
If the core selling points of your web - based
ebook reader is that it paginates and works offline — two features that
native apps easily do much much better — then you've already failed.
Since Overdrive released a
native iPad
app, it's a perfectly good
ebook reader.
It's not clear at the moment what problem from the reader's perspective a web - based
ebook reader would solve that existing
native apps don't.
Chris from Bilbary elaborated «I expect there will be a place for dedicated
apps for the foreseeable future — most publishers still require «traditional»
ebook DRM — namely that provided by Adobe Content Server — so the only way to display this content is with a
native app developed using the Adobe RMSDK.
DRM is not the only consideration — there are a number of other benefits to
native apps that are currently well suited to
ebook readers.
Of course, that would probably be even more expensive, you would have to download
apps that may or may not be as good (I have yet to find any tablet
apps that work better than a
native ebook reader, but maybe they exist), and you would still have the exact same warranty that you're complaining about.
As the worlds of
apps, browsers, and
eBooks collide, and a new generation of digital
natives are born, a total transformation of education and reading is imminent.
A free
ebook by Kinvey that help organisations to understand which platform to choose business mobile
app:
Native, HTML5 or Hybrid.
Most of the obvious differences from the
native Kindle
app relate to the slightly slower speed initially downloading an
ebook and occasional pauses of a second or so in page turning.
The Kindle Cloud Reader is an
ebook reader
app built using HTML5 and web technologies that looks and works just like the
native ebook reading
apps.
Even Google fell at the last hurdle, releasing
native ebook reading
apps for Apple and Android platforms last year rather than HTML5 web
apps for its Google
Ebooks system.
Aerbook Maker radically reduces the cost and complexity of building next generation, graphical
eBooks and true
native apps, for multiple formats and devices.
In January, Smashwords announced a distribution agreement with Lexcyle, now owned by Amazon, where Smashwords
ebooks are listed in the
native ebook catalog of Stanza, the e-reading
app used by over two million iPhone and iPod Touch customers.
Last month, Barnes & Noble released an update to the Nook Color that pushed it more in the direction of tablets, adding its own
app store with games such as Angry Birds, a
native email
app and a Nook Friends social network, which allows users to see what their friends are reading, check out book reviews, loan or borrow
eBooks, share how far along in a book they are and recommend titles to friends.
As such, there's now more control over exactly what appears on the rear display while you're not actively using it — and crucially, you can now send anything at all from your front display to the rear, rather than having to use specific
native Yota
apps for things like
eBooks.