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Ebooks

Chegg Offers 7-Day Ebook Pass While Paper Books Ship

Students who buy or rent a textbook from Chegg will no longer need to wait for it to arrive in the mail before they can start their homework. The online textbook vendor is launching a new "read while you wait" feature on Tuesday night that gives its ...

Movellas Is Like YouTube For Ebooks

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Movellas Quick Pitch: Movellas is like ...

The Guardian Enters Ebook Market With Guardian Shorts

British newspaper The Guardian has launched "Guardian Shorts," a new series of ebooks "providing detailed guides to topical news stories, public policy, sports and cultural events." The first ebook of the series is Phone Hacking: How the Guardian Bro...

Publishers Launch First Digital-Only Textbook for K-12

McGraw-Hill launched its first all-digital, cloud-based textbook for the K-12 market on Monday at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Unlike the company's previous digital efforts for this age group, the books are...

Kindle Books Now Outselling Real Books on Amazon

Less than four years after their introduction, Kindle electronic books are now outselling physical books on Amazon. Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon has sold — including paper books for which there are no Kindle books available — it ha...

Why Google Acquired eBook Technologies

Google has made its first acquisition of 2011 with eBook Technologies, a company that focuses on hardware and software distribution of e-books and e-book readers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. "eBook Technologies, Inc. is excited to annou...

HOW TO: Use Amazon's New Kindle Lending Feature

Amazon has rolled out its long-awaited lending feature for its Kindle ecosystem of devices and apps. Users can loan out supported titles once for a period of 14 days. Very similar in execution to the LendMe feature built in to the competing Barnes & ...

5 Ways to Sell Your Expertise Online

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. As a small business owner or entrepreneur, the lessons you learn are valua...

Barnes & Noble Unveils Full-Color, Android-Based Nook

Not content to let the Kindle or iPad own the e-book space, Barnes & Noble has just announced its successor to the Nook, the NOOKcolor. The NOOKcolor is, as the name indicates, a color e-book reader and touchscreen tablet. It's going to retail for $2...

Borders Slashes E-Reader Prices to $99

Following similar moves by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Borders has announced that it will also be cutting the prices on some of its e-readers. Beginning Wednesday, September 1, the prices of the Kobo e-reader and the Aluratek Libre eBook Pro will drop...

"Sesame Street" Unveils E-Bookstore

Elmo and his Sesame Street friends have already set up shop in Apple's App Store, but today Bert, Ernie, Big Bird and the rest of the crew now have their own e-bookstore to call home. The Sesame Street e-bookstore is an online collection of 121 chara...

Apple iBooks Defeats Amazon Kindle in Reader Poll

It's been another exciting match here in our long-running Faceoff Series, where two competing services, apps or devices are pitted against each other for a fight to the finish. In this edition, we pitted relative newcomer Apple iBooks against its mos...

E-Reader Faceoff: Amazon Kindle vs. Apple iBooks

It's time once again for another edition of our long-running Faceoff Series, wherein we pit two similar or competing web services, gadgets, apps and more against each other in a head-to-head battle for supremacy amongst Mashable readers. This week it...

Kindle and Nook Both Coming to Retail Stores

It's an already hot space that's getting hotter: The e-book market just got a few big jolts, with Apple adding iBook support to the iPhone and now two of the frontrunning e-reader devices coming to retail. Engadget reports that Barnes & Noble's Nook ...

5 Fantastic Free iPhone E-book Reader Apps

While you may well be excited about the Apple iPad and its iBookstore, iPhone and iPod touch owners choosing not to upgrade to the newest 9.7-inch device can still get e-reading on their iProduct right away thanks to a shelf-full of great e-book read...

Amazon Halts Sales of Some eBooks in Publisher Pricing War

The Amazon vs. Apple digital book pricing war rages on as Amazon halts sales of certain electronic titles from publishers Penguin and Hachette. The war began shortly after the iPad was first announced, when Amazon halted sales of Macmillan books in r...

Here's What the Kindle App for iPad Looks Like

It's official: Amazon is building a Kindle app for the iPad and the other tablets that are about to swarm the market in the second part of 2010. For some reason, Amazon repeatedly uses the formulation "Kindle apps for tablet computers (including the ...

Apple vs. Amazon: The E-Book War Rages On

The e-book war between Amazon.com and Apple is getting uglier. Dennis Johnson cites a report in Publishers Marketplace (subscription required) that alleges that Amazon.com is telling publishers that if they switch to an agency model (ala Macmillan) ,...

Kindle for Mac Has Arrived

Amazon has just added a major new platform to its Kindle arsenal: Mac. The free application lets you read e-books on your computer, including those you’ve purchased previously from Amazon. Like its applications for iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry a...

Amazon Launches a Kindle App for BlackBerry

Amazon has launched a Kindle application for BlackBerry that lets customers purchase and read e-books. Just like the company’s application for iPhone and iPod touch, if you already have a Kindle, you’re able to sync the BlackBerry app with it, meanin...

Macmillan CEO Confirms Dispute With Amazon Over eBooks

The news about the Macmillan price feud with Amazon over the pricing of electronic books has been confirmed by Macmillan CEO John Sargent in a paid advertisement on Publishers Lunch. In the message, addressed to "Macmillan authors/illustrators and th...

Apple vs. Amazon: The Great E-book War Has Already Begun

We're not going to see the iPad hit stores for another two months, but it is already changing the e-book game and forcing publishers and consumers to pick sides. Last night, several blogs including Venturebeat and NYT's Bits Blog noticed something wa...

10 Excellent Accessories for Your Amazon Kindle

The Kindle -- Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' "iPod of reading" -- has seen a similar (if scaled down) explosion of accessories, peripherals, add-ons and adornments as the Apple MP3 player. Finding great products to compliment your e-book reader can be a bit...

10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers

This series is supported by Times Reader 2.0. Learn more about The New York Times' latest innovation in newspaper delivery here. We're big fans of eBooks. You can read them on multiple computers or devices, add annotations, and search for specific wo...

Barnes & Noble Sued Over Nook Design

As the electronic book reader market heats up with a number of new offerings coming up, this was an unexpected flare up: Spring Design, makers of the Alex dual-screen eReader, are suing Barnes & Noble over their Nook eBook reader, another dual-screen...

Google Plans Electronic Book Store to Take On Amazon

Look out Amazon: Google just announced plans to open an electronic book store. Unlike Amazon's strategy with the Kindle dedicated eReader device, Google plans to deliver eBooks to any device with a web browser. The service, dubbed Google Editions, is...
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