Two days after Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter to describe Google as a “piracy leader”, it has emerged that the Android Market had been giving away illegal ebooks. Free apps offering hugely popular bestsellers such as the Harry Potter series appeared in Google’s store, and prior to their removal earlier today were unsurprisingly proving popular with downloaders.
Got a new Amazon Kindle for Christmas, but spent all your cash on pressies for your friends and family? Fear not. The incredible Project Gutenberg is absolutely chock full of freebies: 36,000 to be precise. And among those thousands of gratis reads are some of the greatest classics ever written. So what are you waiting for? Dive in and we’ll take you through six stunning titles that you should download and read now.
Merry Christmas! Just unwrapped an Amazon Kindle 4? Welcome to the world of digital bookwormery! The new eReading dream machine may have ditched the physical keyboard found on its predecessor, but it’s still got some real tricks up its sleeve. Read more
Walter Isaacson’s official Steve Jobs biography is a hefty old thing, which is probably why the ebook costs an eye-watering £12.99. If that seems too steep, however, you can now buy it digitally from the App Store for £4.99 …If you speak Russian. Read more
After news a couple of months ago that Amazon had sod more Kindle ebooks than paperbacks, those sales have now crept past sales of paperbacks too. For every 100 paperbacks bought on Amazon it sells around 115 Kindle ebooks, and Kindle ebooks sell triple the amount of hardbacks.
But while Amazon is talking a lot about sales of ebooks for the Kindle, what we still don’t know is how many it has sold. The last figure Amazon set on Kindle sales was simply to say “millions”, which is vague enough to mean almost nothing.
[via USA Today]
An Amazon Kindle Android app is on the way. Amazon has announced that it’ll be extending its virtual library to Google’s OS sometime this summer. And unlike owners of the iPad Kindle app and iPhone Kindle app, Android lovers will be able to buy ebooks from Amazon straight from their phone…
iTunes 9.1, the latest update of Apple’s media munching desktop app, should arrive just in time for the US iPad launch this Saturday. Rumours of the changes we’re set to see in iTunes 9.1 have slipped out ahead of its arrival with the expected addition of iPad ebook support, tweaks to Genius Mixes and automatic bitrate conversion on the cards.
Kobo Books has launched an open UK ebook store store that will put pressure on Apple iBooks and the Amazon Kindle. Read on for news of the new source of books made from bits…