And so it begins. This will be remembered as the moment in time where ebooks took off. The Kindle Fire tablet is officially here. Amazon began shipping them today. They were not supposed to start shipping until tomorrow, but Amazon gave their customers an early Christmas present this year and started shipping a day early. [Read more…]
Here comes the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet
Barnes & Noble introduced their NOOK Tablet today. The tablet will be running Google’s Android operating system and will be sold for $249. You can pre-order the device from B&N starting today and it will be available on the 18th of November. [Read more…]
Hawaii State Public Library System offers 50,000 ebooks
It’s no surprise to see a library offering ebooks to their patrons, but when a library offers 50,000 ebooks it is pretty impressive. It’s especially impressive since the list of Kindle Owners’ Lending Library ebooks where Amazon lends ebooks directly to Kindle devices only shows around 5,000 ebooks right now. The Hawaii State Public Library System is now offering around 50,000 ebooks through OverDrive (the ebook provider for pretty much every library). [Read more…]
List of borrowable Kindle Owners’ Lending Library books
Here’s the list of Kindle books that can be borrowed for free through Amazon’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. You don’t need a Kindle to browse the list and and it shows all the books currently available in the program. You can filter the results to see if the books you’re interested in are in the list by using the following URL: [Read more…]
Amazon launches direct ebook lending to Kindle owners
It’s official. Amazon launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library on Wednesday. The move was somewhat expected as it was rumored that Amazon Prime ebook lending was in being discussed in September. [Read more…]