With the much heralded announcement that Amazon has granted Kindle users the ability to loan eBooks to one another has been overshadowed by the fact that it just doesn't work very well. Read More

Of course if you're involved, you know you're already half-way through your writing marathon. Right? Or you 've wasted almost fifteen days and now have to catch up? Thanks to National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, novice writers set a common goal: to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
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Apple has opened a new iBookstore in Australia, exposing a new market to would-be authors and self-publishers. The Australian iBookstore had only out of copyright books to offer until today, when thousands of new titles became available to iPad, iPhone and IPod users down under. Read More

Nextbook is set to introduce a line of sleek, lightweight Android tablets to the US market, and Borders Books will have an eReader built into the device. Nextbook's Next2 model Andriod tablet computer with built-in e-reader and WiFi will be launching with HSN this fall. You can read all about it at the Nextbook site. Read More

This could be interesting. Salon pointed out that the new Nook is really a tablet computer running a super locked-down form of Android.

From their presser: "Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced NOOKdeveloper, a program that enables content providers and the developer community to deliver new and innovative reading experiences using Barnes & Noble’s open eReading platform. With the new program, Barnes & Noble is inviting content providers and developers to create, market and sell content and applications that enrich, extend and expand reading for millions of Barnes & Noble customers, beginning with the newly announced NOOKcolor, the first full-color touch Reader’s Tablet."

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