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Can we hope for an Amazon and ePub union?

November 26, 2008
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EPUB formatted books as an industry wide standard is what I, and many others want. But can we achieve this without Amazon’s adoption — at least with ePub support on their Kindle eBook reader. It will certainly be a lot easier to have a standard eBook format if Amazon joined the ePub party. I’m reluctant [...]

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Feedbooks: One Million ePub downloads and counting!

September 10, 2008

Feedbooks have announced on their Blog that they have now surpassed 1,000,000 downloads of ePub files – this is a serious achievement! The release of the Stanza eBook reader on the iPhone and the ePub update to the Sony Reader have of course helped greatly, but this is still impressive as they have managed this [...]

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Want to read EPUB ebooks on your iPhone?

July 14, 2008
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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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Feedbooks RSS tool converts to EPUB

July 5, 2008
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Feedbooks are at it again, now they’ve gone and updated their RSS tool to include conversions to the ePub format! I’ve been playing around with this and it’s a really cool app – you can even supply your own RSS feeds. The converter actually outputs to a number of different formats including; ePub Mobipocket/Kindle PDF [...]

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Feedbooks to release their own e-Ink Reader – Native ePub?

June 2, 2008
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Last week, Feedbooks co-founder, Hadrien Gardeur announced on the mobileread.com forum that they will be releasing their own dedicated E-Ink eBook reader! Feedbooks.com is a service that provides public domain eBooks for download in multiple formats, including of course ePub. The device itself will be available later this year (September/October 2008) through a large French [...]

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