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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (www.teleread.org) has great iPod Touch news, photos, videos and more
Wednesday, Jan 7
E-book review: Emperor Dad
Science fiction may have gotten it wrong up to that point—but those pocket computers have turned out to be more right than anyone back then could possibly have known. Technorati Tags: Henry Melton,Emperor Dad,Byte Magazine,e-books,Mobipocket,app store,Apple,iPhone,iPod Touch,K...
Tuesday, Jan 6
iPhone reading: pro and con views
The iPhone and iPod touch combined with Stanza make for a great e-reading experience. I was pleasantly surprised with how easy on the eye reading from the screen was. I had no trouble reading for an hour straight on the train. If you already own an iPhone or iPod touch you really must give Stanza...
Sunday, Jan 4
PC Magazine on eReader and Stanza
As part of their “21 Cool iPhone Apps” feature, PC Magazine has posted 2-page reviews of both Stanza and eReader. It gives both apps high marks, though Stanza gets half a star more than eReader. Both reviews contain some factual errors, but they are the sorts of things you need to go in-depth t...
Friday, Nov 21
New iPhone firmware 2.2 update—and Apple vs. Podcaster: Continued e-book ramifications?
Remember the battle between Apple and Podcaster—which let you download podcasts via wireless connections while skipping iTunes? Apple didn’t just ban Podcaster from the App Store for the iPhone and Touch and otherwise thwart its developers. Now Apple is apparently preempting Podcas...
Wednesday, Nov 19
Stanza-BooksOnBoard-Samhain direct downloads are already working, apparently: Try ‘em, R fans!
I just went to BooksOnBoard with my iPod Touch and confirmed that direct downloads for iPhone and Touch owners seemed to working already. The "seemed" is just because I haven’t tested this. But BooksOnBoard instantly recognized my Touch browser. Via a link it offered some easy instruction...
Tuesday, Nov 18
Mac owners: OverDrive Media Console version released for library audiobooks
With this free software, Mac users can download audiobooks in the MP3 format from an OverDrive partner library’s download website and transfer titles to Apple® devices including iPod® Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iPhone™. OverDrive Media Console for Mac also provides the same su...
Stanza tips for bookstores and writers: How to SELL ePub books for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Stanza is one of the hottest e-book apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, with more than 500,000 downloads. New York Times columnist J.D. Biersdorfer recently recommended Stanza in Tip of the Week: Turn your iPhone into an e-book. Wouldn’t it be great if you could sell your e-books to Stanza’s gr...
Saturday, Nov 8
Review: iSilo v1.30 for iPhone
The iSilo iPhone App: User Interface Like other platforms’ iSilo clients, the iPhone version is capable of reading iSilo-format documents. However, unlike the other versions, the lack of hardware buttons on the iPhone leads to some hard choices in the user interface.
Tuesday, Sep 23
Some 300,000 Stanza users via iPhones and iPod Touches: Up from 85K in about five weeks
Some 85,000 users of the iPhone and iPod Touch had downloaded Stanza as of August 12. Now, just five week or so later, the cumulative number has shot up to 300,000, consistent with the fast growth of eReader as well. Stanza at this point would appear to be drawing more users. Just a few [...]
