The future of books lies in ebook readers one reason why so many players are stepping in the arena of rolling out devices to read and publish books to. Amazon started it off with its Kindle, Apple has taken it to the next level with the iPad and the battle continues. It will now be for more compact, yet powerful devices and Kindle has already got itself a sleeker, faster and a much better version of the ebook reader.
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The Kindle e-reader might be feeling threatened by the iPad, but lets not take the credit away from Jeff Bezos from bringing forth these handy devices to read content. The concept of Buy Once and read everywhere has made life easy and it’s not just confined to one device alone. You have the Kindle app for the iPhone, the iPad itself, Android, BlackBerry, PCs and Macs. However there has been a vacuum when it came to the Web. That might just get resolved as Amazon is set to release the Kindle Previewer for HTML5.
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The problem with having Kindle or the Amazon’s book store is that you feel restricted to just one ebook reader. However Shortcovers goes a bit beyond ad surfaces as an eBook store on a global scale with a wide variety of books to offer. Be it classics, best sellers or books that you fail to find elsewhere. Today Shortcovers launched support for ePUB downloads for any device you own, be it and Android based phone, the iPhone or you computer system, simply download your favorite book to your device at the cheapest possible rates and enjoy reading it. Plus the eBook store is also offering the latest Dan Brown book; Lost Symbols for its fans to read on their devices. If it sounds great, do visit the eBook store.
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I had been wandering when will Apple begin to talk about stepping into eBook reader business. It has the hardware it can build the readers on and the potential market in the form of iTunes. I was surprised when reports came out that Steve Jobs doesn’t think that Apple should step in that category, which is not so. What he thinks is that it’s quite surprising why people would pay for a device that only helps reading books. Right, this was exactly what I had thought and Apple has the right hardware in the form of iPhone and iPod Touch. Both these devices have done an excellent job in the market with tons of applications and if only Apple is to enlarge the dimensions of the iPhone or iPod touch, they might just make book reading a better experience on those devices. This is just what Steve Jobs has in mind, why should Apple stick to making a dedicated device for book reading when it can leverage its existing technology to create an even better and a much more successful device. I just wonder when is this tablet coming our way?
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In a bid to have more people make use of Google Books, Google has got just the right promotion trick to allure more to its book search engine. Google is giving away 30 free Sony Readers over the next ten days. All that users have to do is play a simple game, quite like a trivia to have a chance at grabbing the reader. Now Google and Sony have been doing some sort of collaboration in the recent past when Google gave Sony’s e-book store access to more than half a million books. Are they up to sort of a partnership? Any one with any details?
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