E-book reader Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

New Kindle app for Macs adds many desired features

by Mel Martin (Oct 19th, 2010)

I do most of my reading of books purchased from Amazon on my iPad, but there are times where my laptop and desktop Mac would be just dandy for catching up on my non dead-tree efforts. Amazon has released a new version of Kindle for Mac, and it brings the Mac version up to feature parity with the ...

Macmillan trying to sell readers 'hardcover' ebooks

by TJ Luoma (Mar 2nd, 2010)

John Siracusa drew my attention to an article by Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price, in which he says that the company actually plans to keep their hardcover/paperback separation even while selling ebooks. While new hardcover ebooks will sell for $14.99 and ...

Eucalyptus for iPhone gets a new lease on life

by Mel Martin (May 24th, 2009)

Eucalyptus [App Store] has been finally allowed to appear in the App Store after being rejected by Apple. The e-book reader for the iPhone and iPod touch was rejected because a person could get sexually oriented books like the Kama Sutra, even though the book is in the public domain and freely ...

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