Welcome to another Good e-Reader Video Tutorial! Today we are going to teach you how to use the Overdrive online system to browse and download books to your Amazon Kindle Touch e-Reader.The first thing you need to do is make sure you belong to a library participating in the Overdrive digital lending program. If your local branch does you simply need a library card number … [Read more...] about How to Borrow Overdrive Library Books on the Amazon Kindle Touch
E-Book News
Overstock now selling Barnes and Noble eBooks
Overstock.com the popular website devoted to deals and surplus items are now in the business of selling eBooks. Rather then form publisher relationships and deal directly with 1st party companies it simply made an agreement with Barnes and Noble.The new ebook store is rather simple and they seem to be only posting books that have some sort of discount which adheres to the … [Read more...] about Overstock now selling Barnes and Noble eBooks
European Commission Launches Antitrust Investigation Against Apple and eBook Agency Pricing
The European Commission has formally launched their official investigation against Apple and various book publishers. Hachette Livre , Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Penguinand Verlagsgrupp are accused of price fixing ebooks via a cartel, which is illegal in Europe.The European Commission starting today is investigating the fact that Apple and its iBookstore formed a … [Read more...] about European Commission Launches Antitrust Investigation Against Apple and eBook Agency Pricing
Why the Overdrive App Needs to Be Bundled on More e-Readers
Overdrive is the most prevalent system libraries employ to facilitate the lending of ebooks. The service is found in close to 20,000 different libraries in the USA and Canada. The company has also made inroads to open up their digital service in Australia, the UK, and other markets. Many seniors and non-tech savvy people are starting to buy e-readers because the devices have … [Read more...] about Why the Overdrive App Needs to Be Bundled on More e-Readers
Waterstones to Launch Their Own e-Reader
It seems that Amazon is the book retailer that everyone loves to hate, from rival major book chains and mom-and-pop booksellers to the major players in the publishing industry, but the harshest words yet for the online retailer may have finally arrived. According to James Daunt, CEO of Waterstone’s, Amazon is the devil.The UK-based Waterstone’s chain was bought by a Russian … [Read more...] about Waterstones to Launch Their Own e-Reader
Financial Times Opts Out of iTunes Thanks to Competition
In a major daring step that takes a stab at some mainstays in the digital business, Financial Times pulled its app from iTunes in order to protest the 30% cut and retention of customers’ private information. Now, thanks to greater opportunities from the Android market and the development of its own iOS-compatible app that can be accessed through the devices’ web browsers, … [Read more...] about Financial Times Opts Out of iTunes Thanks to Competition
Ebooks Finally Getting the Love They Deserve?
One of the greatest business mergers that grew out of a love/hate relationship has got to be the traditional publishing industry and its newer, shinier counterpart, digital publishing. From the very beginning when consumers were regaled with threats that digital would be the end of books, and when authors were assured that ebooks would lead to career-ending piracy, the two … [Read more...] about Ebooks Finally Getting the Love They Deserve?
Exclusive Kindle Fire App Released by the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal has officially unveiled their new Kindle Fire Application today. You can now download it for free from the Amazon Android App Store and has various subscription fees for content.When you have the new WSJ app on your trusty Kindle Fire you can pay $17.99 per month for a full subscription. This gives you access to the online version of the paper and … [Read more...] about Exclusive Kindle Fire App Released by the Wall Street Journal
Independent Booksellers: There’s Now an App for That
Reading consumers have mourned the loss of bookstores, big and small, for quite some time. The obvious scapegoat is the advance on not just online retailers, who have shouldered much of the blame for providing print books at a chain-store discounted price along with free, fast shipping. But with the advent of digital reading, many smaller independently-owned bookstores closed … [Read more...] about Independent Booksellers: There’s Now an App for That
Kobo Book Club to Launch in 2012
Kobo announced today that they are launching a new Book Club in the 1st quarter of 2012. This will allow anyone who has purchased a Kobo Touch e-reader to select a free ebook every month for the entire year. This is available to residents of Canada and the United States who activate their Kobo eReader Touch or Kobo Touch with Offers today through March 31, 2012, regardless of … [Read more...] about Kobo Book Club to Launch in 2012
Amazon’s Newest Foreign Kindle Markets
Amazon launched its Spanish Kindle store today and its Italian Kindle store today, making those only the fourth and fifth languages to be digitally compatible with the Kindle e-readers. It launched with a catalog of around 22,000 Spanish titles and 16,000 Italian titles, including popular bestsellers. Both stores include access to around 900,000 titles in other languages, … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Newest Foreign Kindle Markets
British Newspapers Archiving in Digital Format
As digital reading technology gets better and better, so do the applications for its use. Everything from casual reading to textbooks to specific titles to assist readers with special needs has evolved in an electronic edition.Now, over 300 years of archived British newspaper articles, some 65 million or so individual pieces, are being uploaded by Brightsolid and the … [Read more...] about British Newspapers Archiving in Digital Format
Cambridge Journals offers eBook Rental System for Researchers
Cambridge University Press, the folks behind Cambridge Journals is offering a new way for people to use their research papers, the digital rental model. Instead of paying $30 to $40 to purchase them you can now rent them for 24 hours, for as little as $5.99. This should be a boon for students and researchers to get the information they need and be done with it.The new … [Read more...] about Cambridge Journals offers eBook Rental System for Researchers
Canadian Library usage up 45% thanks to ebooks
Lumos Research for the Canadian Urban Libraries Council has released new reports that are encouraging to the sustainability of the public library system in Canada. Across the country, library usage is up 45 per cent over the past decade, from 16.6 to 24.1 transactions on average per capita.One of the most well known success stories in very traditional library adapting to … [Read more...] about Canadian Library usage up 45% thanks to ebooks