While I was wrapping up a conference on a totally unrelated matter yesterday, Amazon unveiled its long awaited public library lending feature for Kindle ebooks. You can find out the official details at www.amazon.com/kindle/publiclibraries. This morning I gave it a shot with my local library. I’ve never particularly liked the whole OverDrive experience with EPUB [...]
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Free coffee this Saturday when you demo a Nook Color
For a single small coffee, I’m certainly not suggesting you make a special trip to your nearby Barnes & Noble tomorrow for a guided tour of the Nook Color. However, if you were planning on dropping by a B&N soon anyway, Saturday the 26th is free coffee day.
All Target stores to stock the Kindle starting June 6th
Update: Even though your local Target might have the Kindle on sale starting this weekend, you might want to wait until August when an improved model is rumored to arrive. Target’s experiment with being the first brick-and-mortar store to sell the Kindle was a success, so the company is expanding it to all locations, according [...]
Penguin previews interactive books for Apple's iBook store
Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson gave a presentation in London today where he demonstrated some books/applications–I’m not sure what you’d call them technically–that Penguin plans to sell on the iBook store when the iPad launches later this month. Penguin is doing some pretty inventive stuff with its content, judging by these demos, and I think [...]