eReaders

Borders UK release the Elonex: their very own eBook Reader

June 30, 2009

In a press release on thebookseller.com, Borders UK have announced the release of their own ePub eBook reader, in an effort to compete with the Waterstones/Sony partnership. According to the article this reader has been specially developed for Borders, although it gives no details on exactly what the specifications are. All I know is that [...]

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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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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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TOC tutorial on how to read O’Reilly ePub books on your iPhone

August 30, 2008

Andrew Savikas over on the O’Reilly TOC has written a nice tutorial on how to read your O’Reilly ePub formatted books on the iPhone using Stanza. One thing to note about this is that he was only successful in doing so when using his MacBook Pro, he was unable to say the same about the [...]

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An Opera ePub book reading widget is being developed

August 5, 2008

Not so long ago Liza Daly released Bookworm to the public, an ePub web application for reading .epub formatted eBooks. Another alternative is now being developed by Opera Software for their popular web browser in the form of a widget. Jon Noring has been advising Haakon Lie over at Opera to develop the browser plug-in, [...]

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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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Use the web-based Bookworm reader to read your ePub books

July 18, 2008

If you are looking for a web-based ePub book reader then look no further than Bookworm. Developed by Liza Daly (see also tei2epub Converter), the Bookworm ePub reader will allow you to read ePub books directly from your web browser, there is also a “mobile web-optimized” version for those of you with an iPhone. The [...]

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Want to read EPUB ebooks on your iPhone?

July 14, 2008

Ready … Set … Read! This is the headline on the Lexcycle website for their new iPhone eBook reader called Stanza. They’re touting this as the ‘premier electronic book reader for the iPhone and the iPod Touch‘ which more importantly (at least for me) has the ability to read ebooks in the EPUB format. Stanza [...]

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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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Online EPUB Reader – Testers Needed

June 12, 2008

Earlier today Liza Daly, creator of the tei2epub converter, posted the following notice to the ePub Community over at Yahoo Groups; I’m looking for interested parties to help test an experimental platform for reading ePub-formatted books via the web. There’s minimal effort involved: just upload one or more ePub documents and try it out. If [...]

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