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• Cybook Orizon officially unveiled
  August 27, 2010
  Bookeen just revealed the new Cybook Orizon. Apparently I was wrong and the model from CES 2010 was not replaced.  I don’t have all the details yet, but I do know that it has a 6″ touchscreen and Wifi. There’s no word yet on price or availability. From past coverage, I know that it’s suppos...
• Review: eBooks by Kobo for iPhone and iPad
  August 26, 2010
  This hybrid iPad-iPhone offering adds to the number of e-book readers in the App Store. It's a little slow at turning pages and doesn't do much to distinguish itself from the other offerings out there, but if you're dissatisfied with other e-book reader apps, eBooks by Kobo is certainly worth a tria...
• The Sharper Image announces Literati color e-reader
  August 26, 2010
  The Sharper Image may not be quite the retail presence it once was, but it looks like its still in good enough shape to hop on the latest trend -- its just announced The Literati by The Sharper Image, a $159 e-reader with a 7-inch color screen. That device actually comes courtesy of MerchSource, an...
• A book library on your phone - Mail & Guardian Online
  August 23, 2010
  Times LIVEA book library on your phoneMail Guardian OnlineThe m4Lit project began in 2009 to test whether teens in South Africa would read stories on their cellphones. Most of the reading and writing that happens ...Yoza m-novel library launchedTimes LIVELink Love: Yoza.Mobi Brings Mobile Fiction t...
• More Android e-book devices on the way
  August 25, 2010
  Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul has a look at three upcoming or recent Android e-book readers, including the Cruz Reader, the Pandigital Novel, and the SmartQ T7. Velocity Micro’s Cruz Reader looks particularly impressive. Paul writes: The device has a seven-inch color LCD touchscreen with a resolutio...
• A selection of the best tablets you can buy now
  August 23, 2010
  The announcement and subsequent release of Apple's "Jesus tablet" has set the portable touchscreen computer market on fire. Manufacturers are scrambling to release devices, wanting to get in on the tablet craze while it's still hot.
• Sony Touch Edition has been discontinued!
  August 22, 2010
  At least, that’s the product status reported by BH Photo. You usually only see “discontinued” when a retailer tries to order more and is told it won’t be available. Of course, at this point it’s not really that much of a surprise, is it? We already knew about the new models. via Mike Cane...
• Mobile Ebook Reading
  August 16, 2010
  Mobile Ebook Reading - That's a good question. Does the future of books lie in the increasing popularity of mobile eBook reading? eBook readers have certainly advanced a great deal in recent months, partially because they allows people ...
• EC Media launches Wink e-reader in India
  August 21, 2010
  While the world holds its collective breath for India to actually mass produce that $35 tablet it's been trumpeting here lately, the country's own EC Media International is taking the wraps off of a sparkling new e-reader: the Wink. This cutely titled device doesn't look much different than older g...
• Pocketbook announces color touch screen Android powered e-reader and more
  August 21, 2010
  Manufacturing upstart PocketBook is clearly still gung ho about e-readers, judging by the five new models it has announced will be released at IFA in September, which include a pair of entry-level ProBook 602 and 902 units, as well as the ProBook 603 and 903 premium units. The 60x designated models...
• Books Have Many Futures : NPR
  August 21, 2010
  If many types of paper-based books are headed for extinction, what will take their place? "E-readers" are a big part of the present and future -- but not the whole story. Video games and multi-narrator online stories will have their places too.
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A couple of months ago I discovered some guys illegally published their edition of my book at Amazon. They took a content of a free book shared with a CC licence probably at Wattpad or Smashwords and are selling it for $11. Hell with them,… no, wait, they made it to #38 in Humor / Jokes Riddles.

I took screenshots of their copyright and legal notices. And, yeah, IT IS A JOKE. They claim they own all rights. What’s more:

You should assume that the author and the publisher have an affiliate relationship and /or another material connection [...].

The original Amazon Password Incorrect is here ($0.99), the second part of the series, Failure Confirmed – here. Please visit book sites, leave a review, download free samples or even buy the books. I’d love to be as good as the guys who have fun while robbing me.

And if you want a free download of what they sell for $11 – go and take it from Feedbooks.

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A couple of days ago Reuters had news stating that Google Editions is “due to launch this fall”.

It sounds like a hell of a delay. When first announced in October last year it was due to start in first months of 2010. Then it was about to launch in June or July. Now we have to wait till a vague fall.

The delay suggests Google is not ready with a new service. In view of all failures it’s not good to hurry up again.

Postponing is not good for Google, but it’s actually good for the reader. There are two major reasons for that.

Google will have time to improve before it’s too late

There are a lot of questions and concerns about a new e-bookstore. In my opinion a serious player in the e-book market should not only provide the right tools to buy books but also the right tools to read them.

Reading interface is what I most worry about. If they really want to bring readers in, they have to offer a brilliant tool to read books in a browser. Other Google services are not a good reference. The level to reach are e-reading applications used in mobile devices: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Stanza, Aldiko and many others. There are web-based reading services like Ibis Reader. It’s what readers will refer to.

If after launch Google Editions will disappoint readers there will be no second chance to fix it. People are generally aware of how Google Books works and looks. They’ll give a try – once – and they have to find big improvements.

Having more time means we can expect a better reading interface, developed by Google itself or, what I hope for – independent web developers.

Competitors will be forced to react at least one more time

What I really liked about former Google Editions launch dates was how current players were reacting. They were trying to weaken the impact of a launch.

It was not a New Year’s gift from Amazon to change publishing terms, including a 70% revenue share offered to Kindle publishers.

Even better things happened in a second half of June, right before the 2nd launch. Remember e-reader price war? Within a couple of days prices were reduced to much below a magic $200.

Google Editions’ competitive edge is “no extra device needed – just use the one you already have”. It’s the biggest threat to device-centric players. They have to lower prices of their devices and develop applications for smartphones and tablets.

From a reader’s point of view it’s a right path to follow. One or two new Google Editions launch dates could bring e-reader prices well below $100.

This short post should be helpful for every writer who is using Twitter to direct iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users to his book published in ePub format.

Wouldn’t you like tweeple to read your book seconds after they discover it on Twitter? Here is a simple trick.

Instead of tweeting a link to a book page, tweet a link to a book file.

So if your book is being show at the directory like this: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127

find a link to an ePub file: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.epub

and tweet it – you can use a shortener as well: http://bit.ly/bL3fJC

When the link is opened in Safari, a dialog box appears where the user can choose an e-reading application he wants to read a book with:

When you tweet a link, it’s good to address iOS users and name the applications. It could look like this:

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• liquidpubs – new publishing service launched
  August 20, 2010
  Has anyone heard of them? From the press release: liquidpubs is a set of services and technologies that allows publishers of magazines, newspapers and books to offer a groundbreaking experience of their content on tablet computers and smartphones. For newspapers and magazines, whether it’s the iPa...
• Ebooks: Revolution Or Fad?
  August 20, 2010
  HSINCHU, Taiwan — The marriage of an American technology firm and a Taiwanese display panel manufacturer has helped make digital reading a prospective challenger to paper as the main medium for transmitting printed information. Four years ago Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink Corporation and Taiwan's...
• Kobo Price To Drop To $99 By Christmas
  August 19, 2010
  With all of the new tablets rumored to come out this fall and the new Kindles almost ready to ship, this should be an interesting holiday season for the eReader. And the price wars are likely to continue. The New Yorker is reporting that the Kobo will be down to $99 by Christmas. From The New Yo...
• HOW TO: Make Your Mobile Websites Act More Like Native Apps
  August 18, 2010
  This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.As smartphone sales continue to soar, more and more developers are focusing their efforts on building applications for mobile devices. Whether it is a native application or a mo...
• Google Editions "Due To Launch This Fall"
  August 18, 2010
  In a Reuters article about indie bookstores, the reporter broke some news about the seemingly postponed launch of Google Editions. It appears that Google's bookstore--poised to compete with Apple iBookstore and the Amazon Kindle Store--will "launch this fall." Check it out: "The [American Booksell...
• Self Publish Your Tweets & Tweetpics with Twournal
  August 19, 2010
  The brand new Twournal service launched yesterday, allowing people to print and sell copies of their Twitter feeds. The company also offers a free eBook edition of your tweets, even if you don't want to pay to print your Twitter journal. Here's more about the site: "All Twournals have color cover...
• Wattpad launches marketing program for self-published authors
  August 18, 2010
  From their press release: In the first half of 2010, Wattpad has established cross-promotional partnerships with major self-publishing houses Smashwords, Lulu and Bubok. To assist writers in connecting with readers on the site, Wattpad is launching the Self-Published Writers Program, a new marketi...
• eTextbooks: iPad & eReaders Lag Behind, PCs Still Dominant
  August 18, 2010
  Last week we looked at the pros and cons of eBooks vs traditional paper books. For the consumer market, eBooks are still at the early stage of adoption - but becoming more popular due to the iPad and the price point getting lower for eReaders like Kindle. Another market where eBooks have a lot of po...
• Half.com Offers iPhone App to Find Cheap Textbooks On The Go
  August 16, 2010
  With college students around the country heading back to school in the coming weeks, the hunt for cheap textbooks is on. If you've ever spent a couple hundred collars on a single book, only to read a few chapters and put the book back on the shelf, then you know the unique sticker shock that comes w...
• Can Apps Save Content Publishers?
  August 16, 2010
  Can apps save content publishers? That was a question posed today at the DigiDay: Apps conference in New York. Panelists from the magazine and mobile industry discussed the growth of mobile devices and tablet devices for reading and asked how this new adoption can help save magazines. EBook publis...
• Is all piracy bad piracy?
  August 13, 2010
  The law’s not working, the entertainment industry is ignoring the problem and piracy’s not going away anytime soon: these were just a few of the ideas circulating at Wednesday’s panel debate on piracy in East London. read more
• iPad Passes Print Reading in User Preference
  August 13, 2010
  That didn’t take long now did it? The iPad is king of content absorption, according to a new survey from media agency Cooper Murphy Webb. Less than six months of age, the iPad has changed the way readers prefer to get their content. The survey results show that iPad owners now prefer their tablet...
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• Ebooks: New Android-based Sony Readers May Be Coming
  August 12, 2010
  It is a day for Sony news it seems, but this is based on a very interesting notice pasted on a professional bulletin board which has now apparently been taken down. According to the posting, Sony is looking for an engineer with Android experience to join their Reader team…gosh I wonder why? The wa...
• 41% Of UK iPad Owners Prefer iPad As Reading Devices
  August 13, 2010
  UK iPad owners use their iPads as their main reading device. According to a poll of iPad owners by copywriting agency Cooper Murphy Webb, 41% of the respondents prefer the iPad as their method of reading books. The survey also found that 31% of iPad owners preferred reading newspapers and magazin...
• Getting Ready to Publish
  August 13, 2010
  The very first thing to do when you start thinking “Should I self-publish?” is to find out what kind of publisher you might become. This decision is critical because it will influence the decisions you make down the road about organizing your publishing business, if you start one, budgeting for...
• 10 Kindle tips
  August 12, 2010
  Got an email from John Cog about 10 Kindle tips he put up on his Me and My Kindle blog. Well, I took a look and found some stuff I didn’t know about.  Here are the tips and go over to his blog to get the details: 1.  Justify your Kindle’s text 2.  Skim faster 3.  Instantly clear a note or S...
• Top 10 Ways Authors Can Use Twitter
  August 11, 2010
  It's Twitter week here at the Savvy Book Marketer! In today's post, I discuss the many benefits of Twitter for authors. Tomorrow, novelist Graham Storrs shares his secrets for planning a successful round-the-world virtual book tour on Twitter. On Thursday, Tony Eldridge and I will be presenting the...
• EPUB Straight to the Point (Book Review of the Paperback)
  August 11, 2010
  EPUB Straight to the PointCreating ebooks for the Apple iPad and other ereadersby Elizabeth CastroPeachpit Press, ISBN: 978-0-321-734686Available Formats:Paperback, 192 pagesPDF (watermarked with buyer's name)EPUB (unencrypted, direct from Castro's web site)Reviewed by Michael Pastore, Epublishers W...
• Plastic Logic Cancels Que ProReader
  August 11, 2010
  After many delays in a ship date, Plastic Logic has officially canceled its Que ProReader product, which debuted in January and was supposed to ship this year. At CES, mediabistro.com's editorial director took a video tour of the eReader with a premium $799 price tag. Looks like the new Kindle, the...
• 5 Ways That Paper Books Are Better Than eBooks
  August 11, 2010
  Yesterday we gave you 5 reasons why you should read your next book on an eReader device. Needless to say, many paper book fans protested in the comments. And with good reason. Paper books have many things going for them and it's still early in the evolution of eBooks. This is a technology blog. Howe...
• 5 Ways That eBooks Are Better Than Paper Books
  August 10, 2010
  Recently I began to buy eBooks for the Kindle application on my iPad. While I still love paper books, the digital wiles of eBooks are looking increasingly attractive to me. Below are five eBook features that may tempt you to buy electronic books too. I should note that I wasnt a hold-out on eBooks f...
• Project Gutenberg and OverDrive integrate
  August 10, 2010
  OverDrive has announced integration with Project Gutenberg. Boston Public Library is the first to add this featured collection of more than 15,000 EPUB eBook titles to its website. There’s no authentication needed to access these eBooks, and the eBook titles don’t expire or count against a user...
• Google’s count of 130 million books is probably bunk, says Ars Technica
  August 9, 2010
  That’s the title of an Ars Technica article today. The article discusses, at length, the problem with Google’s metadata and says: Google’s counting method relies entirely on its enormous metadata collection—almost one billion records—which it winnows down by throwing out duplicates and no...
• Self-Publishers Start Here: Understanding Fonts & Typography
  August 10, 2010
  In my recent blog redesign I added the “Start Here” categories on the left sidebar to make it easier to find articles with basic information about self-publishing. Each introduces a stage on the journey to publication with links from the archives of TheBookDesigner. This is the fourth in the se...
• 9 Reasons To Be Optimistic About Books
  August 5, 2010
  In the midst of one of the most disruptive transitions the modern publishing industry has ever experienced, it can be easy to give in to pessimism, fall in with doom-saying pundits and short-term gamblers, and forget why you thought working in publishing was ever a good idea to begin with.
• InDesign CS5 ePub Export
  August 7, 2010
  Another novel, another excursion into e-book conversions.  But this time, its with all new software.  InDesign has bumped up to CS5, and of course Sigil and Calibre have both had numerous updates since I used them the last time.  The process has gone much smoother. Step 1, make minor formatting...
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• Updated txtr app allows Adobe protected eBooks onto iPads
  August 6, 2010
  iPad owners looking to read existing Adobe DRM protected books - including those bought from UK retailers such as Waterstones, WH Smiths and Foyles - on their iPad can now do so thanks to an updated version of the txtr app.
• Some Smashwords stats – growing like Topsy
  August 6, 2010
  I received this in an email from Mark Coker and I thought it was interesting enough to republish: Although stats are tough to come by, measured by title count, I think we’re probably the largest ebook publishing and distribution platform for indie authors next to Amazon. We now publish over 16,00...
• Smashwords and Diesel Ebooks team up
  August 5, 2010
  From the press release: Los Gatos, CA. and Richmond, VA — July 5, 2010 — Smashwords, the leading eBook publishing and distribution platform, and the Diesel eBook Store, the world’s largest independent eBook retailer, have announced two eBook distribution agreements that will expand eBook publi...
• HOW TO: Self-Publish Anything Online
  August 5, 2010
  Scott Steinberg is the CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global, and a frequent tech analyst for ABC, CBS and CNN. He’s covered the field for 400+ outlets from NPR to Rolling Stone. His latest self-published venture is the online video series and magazine Game Theory.Starting your own fas...
• Mobcast Selling eBooks On Android Phones In Europe
  August 5, 2010
  Digital content provider Mobcast is now selling eBooks on Android based phones in Europe by enabling mobile carriers to sell books to Android and smart phone customers. T-Mobile UK Orange UK are the first mobile operators to sign up to sell books this way. Through the operator-branded stores users...
• Kindle Gets Games; Two Free Apps Launched
  August 5, 2010
  The Kindle is no longer an e-books-only device; developers have just released two Kindle-ready games, thanks to the Kindle Development Kit (KDK).The KDK was launched earlier this year. At that time, we predicted more non-book apps, from productivity tools to games, would be available for Kindle user...
• Lonely Planet Launches Interactive Travel eBooks
  August 4, 2010
  Lonely Planet released its first interactive travel eBooks called Discover. The books are designed liked a guidebook and is full of images, tips from locals and suggested itineraries. But unlike a print guidebook, the eBooks include more than 3,000 hyperlinks so that readers can make hotel reser...
• Linked: Simon & Schuster Releases Choose Your Own Adventure Apps
  August 4, 2010
  Simon Schuster have released a series of Choose Your Own Adventure apps for $3.99: Instead of turning to a particular page to make a choice, the U-Ventures apps allow the reader to tap the screen and enjoy, with sound, light and other special effects — music and alien voices, for example — adde...
• $99 Color E-Reader and Social Platform to Challenge Amazon, B&N This Fall
  August 3, 2010
  Following recent price cuts on Amazon’s Kindle 2 and Barnes Noble’s Nook, a new manufacturer is set to stir up even more competition in the e-reader pricing wars with the debut of a $99 color device this fall.The device, which weighs in at .42 lbs and features a 5-inch, 800×480-pixel, color LC...
• HarperCollins To Release Five More Enhanced eBooks By Year's End
  August 3, 2010
  HarperCollins released its first three enhanced eBooks last week. The publisher told Publishers Weekly that they plan to do at least five more enhanced eBooks in the coming months. Ana Maria Allessi, VP, publisher, HarperMedia told PW that they are experimenting this year. They are working with r...
• HarperCollins released enhanced ebooks; will do simultaneous ebook releases
  August 3, 2010
  Publishers Weekly is reporting this. According to them HarperCollins strategy will be to release print editions, ebook editions and enhanced ebooks simultaneously. This all comes about because HarperCollins is releasing three enhanced ebooks and plans to do at least 5 more in the coming months. Th...
• Are eReaders Bad For The Environment?
  August 2, 2010
  Are eBooks environmentally friendly or are they worse than their print counterparts? Raz Godelnik, co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris, has a new article in the Independent Book Publishers Association's (IBPA) monthly journal called "Is E-Reading Really Greener?" positing this very question. Accor...
• Kindle for iOS updated: use it as a free dictionary app
  July 30, 2010
  A new update of Kindle application is up in the AppStore (link). It brings a long-awaited functionality – a dictionary look-up. Together with a possibility to search through the book content, now available also for iPad, it becomes an unexpected alternative to standalone dictionary applications fo...
• Traditional Publishers Release Enhanced E-books for iPhone and iPad
  July 30, 2010
  Scribner and Simon Schuster Digital have released what they are calling their first-ever “enhanced e-book,” Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, via Apple’s iBookstore application.The enhanced e-book [iTunes link] includes an original interview with the author and 27 historic video segments produced...
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• Are ebook readers for book-lovers?
  July 30, 2010
  As Amazon unveils two lighter, more advanced versions of the Kindle e-reader, we ask: can they ever replace books?
• How Low Will E-Reader Prices Go?
  July 29, 2010
  As Amazon prepares to release a $139 Kindle e-reader next month, could even cheaper e-readers be close behind?
• Amazon: E-books Will Overtake Paperbacks by the End of 2011
  July 29, 2010
  Amazon predicts that it will sell more e-books than paperbacks by the end of next year, and that they will eclipse both paperback and hardcover sales combined shortly thereafter.“I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months. Sometime after that, we’ll surpass...
• Simon & Schuster Releases Its First Enhanced eBook
  July 29, 2010
  Simon Schuster has built its first enhanced eBook--complete with CBS News video clips and a $15.99 price tag. What do you think? How much value does video add? CBS News and Simon Schusters Scribner imprint have teamed up to build an enhanced ebook edition of Rick Perlstein's 2008 book, Nixonlan...
• Amazon launches new Kindle e-reader and UK ebook store
  July 29, 2010
  Amazon hopes the redesigned, lighter Kindles and new store will be the 'tipping point' in the UK e-reader marketAmazon unveiled two lighter, more advanced versions of the Kindle e-reader today, alongside a new UK ebook store that it claimed will send sales of the device soaring in Britain.Faced with...
• Amazon Customers Now Order $1 Billion of Products Per Year via Mobile
  July 22, 2010
  Amazon –- who earlier this week made some noise by reporting that Kindle books now outsell hardcovers –- is out with another tale of the times stat: customers are now ordering more than $1 billion worth of products per year via mobile devices.In a statement, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said, "The lead...
• An Amazon-Facebook Alliance to Make Shopping More Social
  July 28, 2010
  When shoppers connect their Amazon and Facebook accounts, they will get recommendations on what to buy based on what their friends like.
• Apple’s Magic Trackpad: is iBooks coming to the desktop?
  July 27, 2010
  This morning’s announcement from Apple has brought about some fantastic pieces of hardware that we’re chomping at the bit to get our hands on. Of course we’re all loving the newly-updated Macs and iMacs, but what’s really caught our attention is the new Magic Trackpad. We first talked about...
• Author Sells 1 Million Books On Kindle Alone
  July 27, 2010
  Amazon has just reached an important milestone: a single author has sold 1,000,000 Kindle books. If there was any doubt as to the long reach of Kindle in the electronic reading wars, this settles it. Stieg Larsson, author of the wonderful trilogy of books The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl...
• Amazon Now Connects to Facebook, Suggests Gifts for Friends
  July 27, 2010
  The experience of shopping and buying items has always been a social one, but online we largely browse and purchase items by ourselves while parked at of our computer monitors. The online shopping experience may soon get far more social as online retail behemoth Amazon has added connectivity to Face...
• Project Gutenberg turns its attention to cell phone reading
  July 25, 2010
  A MobileRead forumgoer reports that the latest Project Gutenberg newsletter contains an announcement of a new Project Gutenberg mobile website, m.gutenberg.org. The site is to be optimized not just for iPhones, but for any mobile phone including browsing-enabled dumbphones. Writes Gutenberg: There...
• Upstart E-readers Fade to Black as Tablets Gain Momentum
  July 23, 2010
  Squeezed by larger companies such as Amazon and Barnes Noble, smaller e-reader makers are going out of business even as consumer interest shifts toward tablets.
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A new update of Kindle application is up in the AppStore (link). It brings a long-awaited functionality – a dictionary look-up. Together with a possibility to search through the book content, now available also for iPad, it becomes an unexpected alternative to standalone dictionary applications for iOS.

Opposite to major competitors, iBooks and Stanza, Kindle introduced dictionary functionality in a much smarter way. After update is complete, when you open an application and sync it with your account, you see a new book on your shelf: The New Oxford American Dictionary with 250,000 entries and definitions.

In my opinion adding a content of application’s dictionary as a separate book is a brilliant idea.

Why? Because it makes a great standalone dictionary application out of Amazon’s app. If you’re looking for a word, just open Kindle, then The New Oxford American Dictionary and tap the magnifying glass icon. You’re searching through the content of a book, which IS a dictionary.

This gives a benefit, no other dictionary app has (as well as iBooks and Stanza). Kindle can explain words in a dictionary entry itself. Dictionary-as-a-function adds a second layer to dictionary-as-a-book. This is especially helpful for non-English users.

From other things I really like the idea that a dictionary entry is being shown after first tap at the bottom of the screen. In iBooks it’s one of the options to choose from a navigation bar (=one more tap). Even more steps it takes to get a definition in Stanza.

Additionally you can look up for words in Google and Wikipedia.

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Adding third-party books to iBooks is painful. You need to cable your device (iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad) with a computer to sync books between iTunes “Books” folder and the application. I personally feel stressed every time I connect a device to iTunes. Syncing is slow and when it’s finished app icons are messed up almost every time.

Comparing to Kindle’s 60 seconds, a cable connection is just outdated. The other thing is that with the iBookstore offering such a little selection of books, many people try to download their own book libraries collected before.

Two tips listed below apply only to pdf documents, so probably only iPad owners will want to try it. You can’t use them to send ePub files to iBooks. I hope it will change soon. So far only Stanza is capable of opening external ePubs (as well as pdf docs as you’ll see in the screenshots).

I assume a book is already on your computer. What you can do is to:

1. Attach to email

When you send yourself an email with the attached book and open a message in a native Apple Mail application on your iPad, you are able to open and save it to iBooks.

Opening pdf documents from Mail

2. Open from Dropbox app

If you have a Dropbox account and the application is installed on your device, you can open it and look for the pdf previously uploaded from a computer. In a latest update Dropbox added a possibility to open documents in third-party applications.

Opening pdf documents from Dropbox

One picture stories are extremely easy to create. Just shoot a picture and type your story using TypeDrawing application. This post is to share with you some tips on how to achieve a more advanced look. If you know what you want, it’ll take no more than 20 minutes.

When you have an iPhone 3G the pictures are, to be polite, average. This one was shot at the Spectrum Museum in Berlin. I knew I had to deeply rework it.

I started with RetroCamera (AppStore link). This is a great app which lets you play with cool vintage effects. First I added a texture.

Then I selected a frame effect, which made a picture more magical, and saved work to photo gallery.

Next step. I opened a PhotoForge application (AppStore link), increased contrast and saturation and played a bit with hue. At this point I was satisfied with a visual effect and saved a picture to photo gallery.

Last step – drawing words with TypeDrawing (AppStore link). A piece of advice: the font size doesn’t have to be big. Just make sure it’s readable. Paint words in such areas and in such a way, so they can correspond with a picture – or bring a new meaning to it.

I’m sending ready-made pictures from an iPhone to my profile at Posterous via PicPosterous (AppStore link). They are automatically reposted to many networks including Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Flickr (a full list is here).

Was it helpful and inspiring? Take an iPhone, shoot a photo and think of a story. Or think of a story and find a good picture for it. And remember – you can share it with the others in a couple of minutes.

By now Stanza is the most robust e-reading application for iOS. It’s packed with features other apps, like Kindle or iBooks are missing. However it has one big disadvantage: no cloud-based bookshelf.

The application is associated to a device not an account. There is no way to sync books and bookmarks like in Kindle. It’s fine when you have one device. Things get complicated to those iPhone or iPod Touch users who are buying iPads. They realize that to read books they collected in Stanza, they need to download them again.

There are a few ways to transfer books to Stanza. I’d like to add to the list a simple solution, which gives at least part of cloud bookshelf functionality. It’s Dropbox (AppStore link), an application available for both iPhone and iPad. Sure, no sync is possible, but at least you can manage you book library from a single place.

This is possible with a recent update of Dropbox. You are able to export documents to other apps, even those ones which can’t be opened by Dropbox itself – like ePub. Please note in the screenshots below, that ePub files can be opened only by Stanza, and pdf files – by Stanza and iBooks.

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I don’t have any problem with using either iPad or iPhone. The devices are perfectly complementary. I read on iPad mostly at home and when on the move an iPhone is a perfect reading companion.

It’s not that easy with applications. They all have their pros and cons, some of them have features the others are missing. This is easily leading to disappointment, as a personal e-book library is split in three places and sometimes I get lost where is a book I feel like reading right now.

So here is a wish list of features a confused reader would love to have in one application to stick to it. The list only contains features which are not available in all three apps. Is there anything missing? Please leave your tips in the comments.

ePub support

Available: Stanza, iBooks

Bookshelf synchronisation

Available: Kindle

Support for audio and video

Available: Kindle, iBooks

Dictionary lookup

Available: Stanza, iBooks

Book content search

Available: Stanza, iBooks

Sharing options

Available: Stanza

In-app purchase

Available: iBooks

Catalog of free resources

Available: Stanza, iBooks

In-app book download from other resources

Available: Stanza

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  According to Wikipedia there are 4.6 billion mobile phones in the world. It’s a huge number. But people don’t try to read books on them. In this post I’d like to address some of the most popular reasons, which prevent us from doing it.

  The screen is too small

  This is true – if you still own a 5-year old phone with black&white screen large enough to show in full length only a phone number (if you’re lucky). But things change, and one of the quickest developing ones are mobile phones. More and more people buy smartphones. They have screens large enough to make their producers cry: “hey you can even watch movies on this phone!”.

  I’ve heard many times that reading on a mobile phone is a disaster. Now try to watch a movie. It stops every 5 seconds, as it takes a lot of time to download it. THIS is a disaster.

  Let’s compare sizes. For a book, you have an A5 format (average paper book) vs a phone screen. For a video, you as a reference we can use a 21″ TV screen. If we can shrink our video world that much, why we can’t do the same with books?

  Another comparison. On average the screen of a smartphone has the width of a text column in a newspaper. If the size of a text field in a paper edition of The New York Times is not enough for you, then you can also complain about a mobile phone.

  This is bad for eyes

  This is truly mysterious point of view. If you read on your 21″ desktop computer monitor – this is bad for your eyes. But the smaller the device is, the less it affects your eyes.

  The font is too small

  This argument comes usually with a first one, but I guess it’s also connected in some way with a general perception of what the e-book is. There are still a lot of people who think, that an e-book is a fixed pdf document, and that you need to scrool&zoom a lot to see anything.

  It’s not true any more. More and more e-books are made with mobile devices in mind. They have a proper format (like ePub), which enables a user to change a font size, among many other features. That means you can enlarge a font to the size you want. Kid book size needed? There you go.

  There are few books available

  People with the knowledge of modern e-book formats, still think that the number of publications is very limited and they are hard to find.

  The truth is that any major e-bookstore now offers books in mobile friendly formats. Do you have an account at Amazon? All books in Kindle e-bookstore are well readable on smartphones. That means you log in to your Amazon account from your cellphone and start reading an e-book in minutes. Same with Barnes&Noble or Borders. What’s more important, there are sites devoted to mobile reading, like Feedbooks or Wattpad. Go there and you’ll see how many good books you can download to your mobile phone – for free.

  Extra effort is needed to get a book

  If you have a smartphone, you can easily turn it into an e-reader – I wrote a short post about it. What you need is to choose your favourite method. The most popular and the easiest way is to download an application. For iPhone OS you have Stanza. Free books for Android are available via Aldiko application. Kindle and Kobo have apps for both mobile OS-es.

  Another way is managing and reading books via a mobile browser. This is what Google Editions is going to bring to an e-book world in the coming days. Reading books will be even easier. No special app needed, you’ll use your smartphone’s browser.

  One thing is clear. You absolutely don’t need to learn anything about format-to-format conversions to start reading books on your mobile phone.

  It costs money

  Most e-book reading apps are free of charge. What you need to pay for is books themselves. So if you think, that turning your mobile phone into an e-reader will cost you an extra money -  you’re just wrong.

  What you may want to know is that there are two kinds of apps in the applications markets. One is a program to read and manage books downloaded to it. The other one is a book-app – a book sold as a separate application.

  If you want to give the e-books a try at no cost the best way is to download Stanza for iPhone or Aldiko for Android. They both give you the access to free resources from Feedbooks – public domain books as well as new titles from self-published authors.

  It’s inconvenient to manage a book library

  Some of us think, that building a book library based on a mobile phone is a useless work. Managing all the books from a small device is hard to imagine.

  You don’t need to assume that any more. With cloud-based services you can access your library from a lot of devices, like a computer, a tablet, an e-reader – and a mobile phone.

  You don’t need to manage your library from a mobile phone – just pick up the most convenient device for that.

  Phones will be replaced by better-suited devices anyway

  Not true. Tablets, e-readers and phones will be used simultaneously. I’m sure that with the availability of bookshelves in the cloud, anyone will want to have a comfort to access books from whatever device he’s got at hand. The big decision to make will be “tablet or e-reader”, but smartphones? We have them anyway, they can be easily turned into e-reading devices.

  And they can be used to read books on the go, anywhere where there was no reason to take a bigger device – but there is time to read books.

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  The idea was simple – to create an Amazon widget with 12 e-readers. Then I was collecting screenshots from certain days and placed them in this post. If the e-reader was no longer sold, I used a price shown in a former screenshot. As simple as that. It was designed to give a clue on how fast the prices of e-readers were going down – and to have it presented in a comparable form. Just an idea from an average e-book enthusiast.

  The big news is that prices have fallen by around 40%. The major reason is a recent price war between B&N and Amazon, in my opinion taking place in view of a launch of Google Editions, which will totally change a perception of an “e-reading device”. Picking up one figure: Kindle 2 is almost three times cheaper than a year ago – $359 vs $130!

  It was not so fantastic at the end of last year – prices were lower only by 15%. And this is what most of us were expecting. In a quick poll only 18% votes were given to a price drop higher than 20%.

  You can check current prices at the bottom of a post. What do you think: will prices of leading devices cross a magic level of $100?

  

  30th June 2009 :. Basket price: $ 5205,71 :. Average price: $433,80

  

  

  30th December 2009 :. Basket price: $ 4447,04 :. Average price: $370,60

  

  

  30th June 2010 :. Basket price: $ 3072,58 :. Average price: $256,04

  

  

  Current prices

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