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Blackewell opens new eBook store with ePub download option

July 22, 2009

While all the U.S. publishers/eBook stores remain reluctant to embrace the ePub format, the UK, and Europe in general, is really forging forward with its adoption. The latest to release an eBook store selling ePub books (plus PDF and other popular formats), is the UK academic publisher, Blackwell. In addition to the 45,000 titles they [...]

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Google + Sony + Project Gutenberg = EPUB bliss!

March 22, 2009

This last week has proved to be quite a week for the EPUB eBook format with announcements from Google, Sony and Project Gutenberg on their support for the EPUB format. Project Gutenberg EPUB Books Over at Project Gutenberg, Marcello Perathoner has been working hard to convert all the Gutenberg titles into the EPUB format. At [...]

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Oodles of commercial ePub books…but not from Waterstones!

January 6, 2009

During 2008 the EPUB eBook format gained huge acceptance and we heard rumours touting that there would be 20,000 available EPUB titles by the end of the year. Waterstones were saying this prior to the release of the Sony Reader in the UK. As we head into 2009, Waterstones still shows less than 7000 titles [...]

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Gulliver’s Travels EPUB eBook

December 2, 2008

Back in September I wrote about my epubBooks development; a project to convert the .TXT ebooks from Project Gutenberg into the IDPF’s EPUB format. After many months of hard work I’e finally finished the conversion tools and I’m now preparing development of the website itself, which will allow anyone to download my EPUB books, and [...]

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Sony Reader now reads ePub books!

July 24, 2008

Very early this morning, 12:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time to be precise, TeleRead.org broke the news that Sony are officially releasing a firmware update allowing the Sony Reader Digital Book PRS-505 to read the IDPF ePub formatted books – available from their website today. The ePub standard has seen great interest of late from both [...]

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O’Reilly are now selling ePub books!

July 15, 2008

Last month O’Reilly announced that they will be starting an experimental pilot and selling selected titles in an eBook bundle. The bundle includes a PDF, Kindle-compatible Mobipocket and of course an ePub formatted version. Today, O’Reilly announced the availability of 30 eBook titles! The cost of the bundle is a little lower than the paper [...]

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ePub books finally reach mass market status

June 27, 2008

New eBook Standard Now Available For Mass Market Audience was the title from yesterdays WebWire press release on the ePub book catalogue at BooksOnBoard.com. With almost 200 eBooks in the ePub format this is the first real source for mass market books to be released in the new eBook standard. It’s a little unclear if [...]

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O’Reilly to start selling ePub Books!

June 18, 2008

Today over on the O’Reilly TOC, Andrew Savikas made an annoucment that from July 2008, O’Reilly will release a selection of their catalogue as a DRM-Free eBook bundle. This will include a PDF, Kindle-compatible Mobipocket and yes, an ePub format version! Not only are they giving you three for the price of one, but these [...]

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Harper Collins UK to release titles as EPUB

April 25, 2008

Hot on the heels of Penguin’s announcement, Harper Collins UK now have plans to release their titles in both print and eBook format this coming September. Thanks to Graeme Neil’s article over at theBookseller.com for uncovering this excellent piece of news. According to his article, Victoria Barnsley, HC UK C.E.O., says that HC is also [...]

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