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iTtunes LP for books ?

Ennev — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:50:05 +0000

The way it’s described it sound like it! But do you want a book with multimedia embeded? It’s been done before! It was called a cd-rom in the 90′s and the web afterward!

Could it fly? Can’t say I heard the lP on iTunes are a succes!

Rumor: Ebooks for Apple Tablet, From Harper Collins [Rumors]

According to the WSJ, HarperCollins Publishers is in talks with Apple about providing ebooks for Apple’s tablet. It’s speculated that ebook markets such as Amazon’s would
seriously suffer if such an arrangement were finalized.

Based on explanations by Brian Murray, the chief executive of HarperCollins, the reason Amazon would initially have something to fear is that “e-books enhanced with video, author interviews and social-networking applications could command higher retail prices for publishers than current e-books” in the future. Apple’s tablet would, of course, be ideal for such enhanced content, and we already know that they’ll be digging for mags, newspapers and college textbooks but this is some of the first we’ve heard of Apple negotiating with publishers for regular e books.

Ah, I suppose we’ll be able to speculate some more on January 27th, in the meantime—on the tablet or not—”enhanced ebooks” sound like a blast. Just imagine how often you’ll say that something was way better with the author commentary. [WSJ]

More about Chapters ebooks

Ennev — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:15:03 +0000

Good news it’s the ePub format that Chapters has chosen.

I was hoping for the Nook but so far theses are the supported eReader devices:

ePub files purchased on shortcovers.com can also be read on the following eReading devices:

* PRS-300 Reader Pocket Edition
* PRS-505 Reader Digital Book
* PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition
* PRS-700BC Reader Digital Book
* Asktak (EZ Reader, EZ Reader Pocket Pro, Mentor)
* BeBook (One, Mini)
* Bookeen (Cybook Opus, Gen 3)
* COOL-ER Classic
* Elonex eBook 600
* HanLin eBook (V3, V5)
* IREX Digital Reader 1000S
* Neolux NUUT2

Kindle ? naah! I love eReader!!

Ennev — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:14:33 +0000

I’ve been reading ebooks for years since I have a Palm IIIx till my Palm T3. Since i have an iPod touch and i was very pleased when they made a version of it months ago, the added bonus is that I could download my previous purchases on it!

Now it’s getting even more available: eReader brings access to almost 60,000 ebooks to the BlackBerry platform

eReader had just been purchased by Barnes & Noble, so it might be very interesting to see what will happen next.