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Kindle Software Coming to the Mac

Written on October 27, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 2 people have commented

The competition is really heating up in the e-reader market. Hot on the heels of Barnes & Noble’s newly-released Nook reader, Amazon last week announced its Kindle branded e-book reader software for the PC. With it, users will be able to read their electronic books on their Kindle and on their desktop PC, too. And, [...]

Apple’s Mythical Tablet Perfect for Comic Books

Written on October 23, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 9 people have commented

In his latest article for the Chicago Sun Times, Mac-afficianado and supergeek Andy Ihnatko discusses LongBox, an iTunes-like comic book online store and screen reader. If you’re into graphic novels, you’ll likely want to know more about this service, which promises to bring order and unity to the chaotic digital world of comic books. What [...]

Kindle 2: The Apple Angle

Written on February 09, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

Well, it didn’t exactly take anyone by surprise, but today Amazon officially unveiled the Kindle 2, the follow-up to their successful e-book reader. Virtually everything about it was leaked, including actual photos of the device, so the announcement didn’t exactly shake the tech world to its foundations, but it does raise some interesting questions and [...]

Books-As-Apps: Cutting Out the Clutter

Written on December 31, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and No one has commented

Over the holidays, I ended up reading an awful lot using my iPhone/iPod touch. I started with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, just to determine whether or not I wanted to cough up ten bucks to go see the Brad Pitt movie, and then, since I enjoyed it, I downloaded and read a [...]

Quick Bit: Stanza & eReader Become Friends

Written on December 03, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 4 people have commented

When it comes to eBook reading on the iPhone, Stanza is our app of choice. Best of all? It’s free.
With access to 10’s of thousands of books, it has a ridiculous selection of reading material and now that selection just got bigger. A lot bigger.
Fellow GigaOm site, jkOnTheRun, broke the news this morning about eBook [...]