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Magic Catalog brings free books to your iBooks or Kindle collection

by TJ Luoma (Apr 5th, 2011)

Most people know that there is a free Kindle app for iOS that will let you read books from Amazon's Kindle store. Apple also offers a free iBooks app. Fewer people have heard of Project Gutenberg, where you can download over 30,000 free books, and fewer still have heard of the Magic Catalog from ...

A barrel of free books from Kaplan makes a great back-to-school haul

by Mel Martin (Aug 25th, 2010)

Kaplan Publishing is offering quite a few free eBooks through the iTunes store, but you can only access them on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. It's a great deal if you're heading back to school or just want to stock up on some quality reference material. The books are in the categories of ...

BookReader for iPhone: You can't judge a book by its cover

by David Winograd (Oct 23rd, 2009)

We did a fairly extensive rundown of eBooks for the iPhone/iPod touch in August; you can take a look back if you're new to the eBook universe for Apple's mobile devices. BookReader [iTunes Link] , a US$4.99 app for devices running OS 2.21 or higher, has just joined the crowded eBook market -- ...

eBook Roundup: 8 Apps for iPhone readers

by David Winograd (Aug 13th, 2009)

An e-book (or ebook, or eBook, depending upon who you ask) is the digital equivalent of a paper book. According to KiwiTech, the publishers of Classics2Go, the market for eBooks has increased more than 60% over the last six years and growth from this point is expected to be very strong. We can ...

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