Penguin

Penguin eBooks are live and in the ePub format!

That’s right, Penguin.co.uk have setup a webpage on their site saying that, “by the end of this year we’ll have thousands of titles available in the shiny new ePub format” – Shiny new ePub format! Okay, so this isn’t the full launch, just an ‘eBook Taster’ but still, they have six taster titles to download [...]

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Fictionwise to start selling ePub formatted books…soon

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A few days back one of the MobileRead forum members contacted Fictionwise and asked when they will start selling ePub formatted books. As they noted in the post, BooksonBoard are currently the only online bookstore that are selling commercial ePub books. UPDATE: We should not forget that O’Reilly have a small selection of titles that [...]

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Penguin UK to release their books in the .epub format!

It seems like Penguin UK will lead the way in advancing the .epub book format, reports theBookseller.com – this is great news for ePub! Penguin UK plans to simultaneously release all their new titles in ePub along with the print edition starting in September, although the price of digital and print will be the same. [...]

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