Barnes & Noble is reportedly working on a new e-reader device that could help the book publisher take on both Amazon and the international market.
Barnes & Noble’s line of Nook e-reader devices, which first debuted in 2009, are helping …
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Apple recently announced iBooks 2 for iPad, which it promises will reinvent the textbook. Some even speculate that it will ignite a revolution in education.
Why? Because iBooks are sleeker, smarter, and equipped with a seemingly endless amount of innovative …
For those who prefer to read with their ears, Audiobooks.com is offering unlimited streaming of audio books for a flat monthly fee.
For $25 a month, you can stream audio books onto any computer or mobile device through the Audiobooks.com …
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When Apple announced its textbook initiative on Thursday, there was a rush of excitement among educators. Textbooks from major publishers, which can cost $40 to $75 dollars in print, would be available as interactive e-books for $15 or less. The …
As it did with music and cellphones, Apple today fundamentally redefined what a textbook is with the announcement of iBooks 2 and its accompanying iBooks Author software.
The benefits of iBooks 2 and its interactive textbooks were hammered home during …
Apple unveiled several new apps Thursday aimed at reforming the way educators deal with textbooks, but the most interesting bit of Apple’s announcement could be the introduction of the iBooks Author app, which lets Mac users with Lion OSX create …
Apple set its sights on education this morning when it announced a slew of new apps and services for students and teachers.
Among them was iBooks 2, an updated version of the company’s iPad e-reading app that adds support for …
I can’t remember the last time anyone was so interested in education technology, but leave it up to Apple to whip up excitement. The company held an “education related” event at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum today, where many expected …
For its big education-related announcement in New York City this Thursday, January 19, Apple may be planning to unveil new tools that would make it easy for publishers and authors to create interactive textbooks.
That’s according to Ars Technica, which …
Online retail giant Amazon sold over 4 million Kindle devices this month — about a million per week — to help make it the most successful holiday shopping season ever, the company announced today.
Amazon launched a new line of …
Apple is once again in hot water with the European Commission, this time over its pricing strategies with e-book publishers.
The EC announced today that it has begun formal antitrust investigations into Apple and five major book publishers — Hachette …
For technical books, publishing has a nearly fatal lack of speed. E-books are increasingly popular, but they’re usually not produced until after the print edition is already complete. That makes about as much sense as posting Instagram photos of yesterday’s …
Giant book publishing company Penguin Group has decided to restore its catalog of e-books to e-book library lending services, such as the one offered via Amazon’s Kindle e-reader and tablet devices.
As VentureBeat reported earlier this week, Penguin decided to …
Major book publishing company Penguin Group has pulled all of its ebooks from Amazon’s Kindle Library Lending program today, reports The Digital Shift.
Amazon forged a partnership with e-book distributor Overdrive’s system for its digital book lending program, which allows …
Cognito Comics today launched Operation Ajax, a dazzling graphic novel for iPad, in a bid to reinvent storytelling for the digital age. The app is free for a limited time.
Operation Ajax is a bold retelling of the book “All …
Making its ecosystem just that much sweeter, Amazon today announced that Kindle owners subscribed to its premium Amazon Prime service will be able to borrow one e-book a month for free.
Dubbed the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, it will give …
Not only do Kindle users get to avoid fighting through book store crowds to get their hands on Walter Isaacson’s new Steve Jobs biography, but they also got the chance to start reading it long before everyone else.
Amazon delivered …
Amazon announced today that its long-awaited Kindle library lending feature, which will be available at over 11,000 local libraries across the US, has finally gone live.
While Amazon is a bit late to the party — both Barnes & Noble’s …
In what may end up being a Netflix for e-books, Amazon is currently in talks with book publishers to launch a new digital book library for customers of its premium Prime service, the Wall Street Journal reports.
If Amazon manages …
Sony’s planned August update to its Reader line of e-book devices is the company’s last shot at reclaiming the market it pioneered in 2006. But it may already be too late.
Despite having a multi-year head-start, Sony’s Reader has lagged …
