Free iPod touch! Hooray!

In an effort to promote its online ebook store, the website shortcovers is holding an iPod touch giveaway. The best part for those of you who aren’t feeling spendy is you can enter up to 5 times without making a purchase. Note: I mistakenly wrote that the entry limit was 25 when I first posted this. My apologies.

Of course, any ebook purchase between now and September 27th will also count as one of your 5 entries.

[Info page on shortcovers iPod touch giveaway]

I’ve been using the shortcovers iPhone app this week to read Kathy Griffin’s new biography, “Official Book Club Selection”–which interestingly was about 50 cents cheaper than the Amazon version earlier this week when I bought it (it’s now about 50 cent more expensive, go figure)–and I’d give it a B-. It’s not a bad app once you get into your book and start reading it, but there are some definite bugs and usability quirks that need to be addressed. But of course, if you win an iPod touch, you can also install Stanza, Kindle, or the B&N Reader app on it and read from whatever store or private collection you like.

Lastly, one bonus of shortcovers files are that you can read them online via the shortcovers website, or on your Windows or Mac PC using Adobe’s Digital Editions software. They also work on Sony’s ereader devices. Sorry, Kindle owners, you’re out of luck.