Overdrive Libby is a brand new app that allows you to listen to audiobooks and read e-books from the public library. This app is not available in the Amazon App Store and so you have to download it from another market, such as the Good e-Reader Android App Store. This video tutorial teaches how you … [Read more...]
Google is starting to punish unstable and buggy Android Apps
Google has begun to leverage a new AI system that will punish apps that are buggy or are prone to crashing. They will make them less visible in search results, which will hurt their chances of being discovered and downloaded. Google announced that they will be looking not just at the user's … [Read more...]
New Amazon Fire Unlock Utility is Released
There is a new Amazon Fire Utility available that will remove all of the Amazon branded apps and turn it into a fully functional tablet with Google Play. This tool is especially useful for people who want to purchase the Fire 7 for $49 and get more out of it. There is no way to root the any of … [Read more...]
Top 10 Android Apps of the Week – July 23 2017
This week a number of new Android Apps and Games have been released and we are drawing attention to them on Good e-Reader. There was also a few that have received big updates, such as Google Play Books which dramatically simplified the main UI and made it more intuitive to use. All of the apps on … [Read more...]
Amazon Rapids Unveils Signature Stories
Amazon Rapids launched last November and features short stories for kids. All of the content is delivered in the style of an instant messaging app and are told through the lens of characters chatting with each other, one message at a time. Today, the company unveiled a huge update called Signature … [Read more...]
OneClickDigital and Zinio merged into a single app – RBdigital
Recorded Books and RBmedia have just launched a new app called RBdigital, which brings together OneClickDigital and Zinio for Libraries into a singular app for Android and iOS. To make it as easy as possible for libraries to adopt the new app, Recorded Books also offers live training webinars to get … [Read more...]
The Best Android e-Reader Apps of 2017
Android has a vast number of e-reading and e-book apps available, but there are so many to choose from. Where do you start? Good e-Reader tracks all of the emerging and new apps you need to know about. Some of them give you bite sized content on a daily basis to keep you entertained during short … [Read more...]
Adobe Scan is the PDF App You Need
Adobe Scan turns your phone or tablet into a scanning tool that automatically recognizes text. It allows users to capture images in a snap and transform them into brilliantly clear Adobe PDFs. When you snap a picture of any document or anything with printed text, Adobe Scan will automatically … [Read more...]
Epic! Raises 8 Million to expand their platform
Epic! is an unlimited subscription platform that focuses on kids. More than 160 million books have been read on their service since launch and over 24 million e-books have been read in the last 30 days. Epic has just raised 8 million dollars from TransLink Capital, Rakuten Ventures, Menlo Ventures, … [Read more...]
New Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 Now Available for Pre-Order
Amazon quietly released two new Fire Tablets today and they are both available for pre-order. The Fire 7 and Fire HD8 are incremental refreshes that do not offer a compelling enough reason for people who bought a tablet last year, but will appeal to people with three or four year old Fire … [Read more...]
Kindle Freetime Unlimited Now Available on Google Play and Good e-Reader
Amazon Kindle Freetime Unlimited is a subscription program that is aimed at kids and the platform has thousands of eBooks, movies, television shows and apps. All of the content that is available on the service has all advertising and in-app payments removed, to make sure the little ones don’t rack … [Read more...]
Amazon Underground Android App Store is Closing This Summer
The Amazon Underground App Store was a bold experiment that was launched in 2015. The main premise was to offer paid apps for free and Amazon would pay developers depending on the amount of time that users were engaged. The money Amazon would pay app development companies stemmed from banner and … [Read more...]
