Search Results by tag: iPhone

Barnes & Noble launches world’s biggest e-book store

U.S. mega-chain Barnes & Noble announced in a press release yesterday the creation of the world's biggest e-book store comprising "more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99." Unlike ... Read More »

July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon: more than just a bookstore

By Stuart Woods

Time magazine book critic and tech columnist Lev Grossman follows up his report earlier this year about the future of literature with a new article, written with reporter Andrea Sachs, examining the impact Amazon is ... Read More »

June 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

Bookmarks: Stanza acquired by Amazon, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: It looks like Shortcovers, Indigo's downloadable e-book application for mobile devices, has some new competition: Lexycycle, the start-up behind the popular iPhone e-book reader Stanza, has been acquired by ... Read More »

April 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Your e-book speculation for the day

By Eric Emin Wood

It's a shame Canadians still can't experience the apparent bliss that is Amazon's Kindle 2 (despite the release of that iPhone app that would doubtless work perfectly well on Canadian models), but that hasn't stemmed ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

By Stuart Woods

About 225 industry people crowded into a Toronto conference room on Thursday for BookNet Canada's annual technology forum. The theme of this year's conference was evolution or revolution, though most of the speakers seemed to ... Read More »

March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Shopping lists, the iPhone Kindle app, and the $1-million French novel

By Eric Emin Wood

For those who thought the old adage was a joke: William S. Burroughs's shopping list showed up on eBay (and was purchased for $400). Do female novelists write about sex less skillfully than men? Author ... Read More »

March 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Now playing on an iPhone near you…

By Eric Emin Wood

Turns out the fastest growing category on Apple's iTunes app store isn't games or music, but books. At least, in terms of "unique applications" (i.e. individual titles). As the O'Reilly Radar points out, "releasing an e-book ... Read More »

March 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: BookNet Canada's Michael Tamblyn offers a fairly enthusiastic review of Indigo's new e-books for iPhones app Shortcovers. Harper U.S. acquires Kerouac's unpublished first novel, about a man at sea. ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

More books on phones

By Stuart Woods

Remember when cell phones were considered to be solely the accoutrements of inveterate workaholics? Well, people with eyes glued to their iPhones “ and other mobile devices “ now have a culturally legitimate excuse, with ... Read More »

February 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Your iPhone (or iPod touch) as bargain hunter

By Eric Emin Wood

As a buyer, I'll admit to occasionally putting a book down because I want to compare prices with another bookstore or check the Internet at home. Apparently some iPhone programmers have too, because some of ... Read More »

February 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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