The paid version of Daily Workouts app is free today ONLY, Tuesday, June 18 This is one in a series of Daily Workouts that target certain areas of the bod and is said to include most of the single-target exercises… Read More

Joining the children’s digital platform wars, battling brands like iStorytime, Scholastic’s Story, Ruckus Media and many more, Kindle Free time is now adding big-name content.[Press Release]Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Adds Popular New Kids Content From Disney, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment … Read More

The eBook single format has been growing in the US in recent months — Amazon has added dozens of new titles to the Kindle Singles catalog and Barnes & Noble recently introduced a way to sell short form content through… Read More

Since earlier in the year when Barnes & Noble announced disappointing device and content sales for its Nook ebook business, the company has been on the warpath to sell as many Nook devices as possible — and the weapon of… Read More

After my coverage of the remarks by Profile Books’ Andrew Franklin, also picked up by others, I linked the original Guardian article to the KBoards Writer’s Cafe, the Kindle platform community’s author forum, inviting comment. Within a day, the thread… Read More

Now that it’s summer, and we want to take our e-readers to the beach, this is perhaps a good time to review what are (and are not) good ideas for how to treat our devices. CNET put the Kindle Paperwhite… Read More

Following my earlier report on Barnes & Noble’s plans for the German market, Amazon now seems to be taking up the challenge with a new ad campaign, according to Germany’s Buchreport.de. The news and information portal of the principal magazine… Read More

A new survey in Japan shows that Amazon's Kindle is leading the market for ebook sales, with Apple (launched in March) second, followed by Kinokuniya's Kinoppy, Sony's Reader Store and Kobo.… Read More

Episode 105 News eBook spending is up Amazon Photo App Amazon coin Amazon buys Liquivista Toby’s dreams are coming true B&N rumors apparently not true Sony’s non-shiny prototype You can now test you epub on Google Play Books (thanks Tom… Read More

As a part of its upcoming operating system release OS X Mavericks, Apple is bringing iBooks to the desktop. The expansion will allow readers who have purchased books through iBooks on their iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to read their… Read More

Last May I decided to stop buying Kindle ebooks. I had already amassed a nice Kindle library but I felt it was time to move on, particularly since B&N was about to release the industry's first eInk device with built-in… Read More

Self-publishing platform BookRix is turning five and to celebrate the company has released a new editing tool and is running a promotion that will reward one author with a $5,000 bonus. The new editing tool for its free self-publishing service… Read More

(via The Christian Science Monitor) A man leaves an Apple store with an iPhone and an iPad in his hands in central Beijing, China in April 2013. (Alexander F. Yuan/AP ) The Apple e-book trial, U.S. v. Apple, continued Thursday… Read More

One of the moments that stood out for readers during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference today involved the iBooks app. With Apple’s new OS X Mavericks, readers can purchase books and read them on the app right on their desktop. Some… Read More