74 posts tagged mobipocket

AAP’s recent open letter strongly supporting the use of ePub by publishers was covered by David Rothman in a separate blog article. Reading the letter, it was unclear to me whether AAP supported ePub as a consumer format.

What is a Kindle? First off, the Kindle is Amazon’s entry into the ebook reader market.  It joins the Sony PRS-505 Reader which has been around for awhile but, it adds a lot of interesting features such as a free built-in wireless connection that allows you to tap into Amazon’s online bookstore from just about anywhere you can access Sprint’s EVDO cellular data network.

iPhones and eBooks 4 05 2008 eBooks have been around for several years now, and in many respects are seriously behind other forms of media. While music is making the painful transition from DRM to open formats other media such as films and books are still subject to restricted use.

Hachette Epub Update! May 3rd, 2008 Searching the Ebooklocator, I’ve got 133, yes, 133 Hachette titles in the .epub format, not available for sale anywhere! Oh, wait, that’s the same as last time, with the most recent title sent out on April 3rd.

K-12 librarian: ‘Amazon won’t let us buy Kindle books’—but read on for some ideas By David Rothman “We are a public school district with a corporate Amazon account. In good faith we purchased a Kindle. When it came time to download books, we discovered Amazon would only allow customers to order by credit card.

Last Friday I ordered my first eBook. At work with a crashed hard drive and nothing to do, I decided to use my Palm Centro smart phone to buy an eBook edition of the novel I’m reading. I chose Mobipocket.com because It was the first store that came to mind It allows you to keep and read the book

The titles in the FractalzBooks collection will now be available in MobiPocket format in addition to PDF files. MobiPocket has several benefits over the PDF format, including: Smaller file size - the files are quicker to download and take up less space on you device Compatible with a wide range

Mobipocket adds over the air e-book downloads It was to be my cheapie version of the Amazon Kindle, an ultra-portable e-book and RSS reader. However, to my dismay, there was one feature sorely lacking: Over the air downloads.

If you’ve ever thought about reading an e-book on your BlackBerry today may be your lucky day. Mobipocket which offers a free e-book reader called Mobipocket(surprising isn’t it) now offers an OTA bookstore so you can browse titles and download them directly to your BlackBerry.

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