4 posts tagged ‘E-books’
Standard Ebooks
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Standard Ebooks (via Jason Kottke): Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks […]
Vivlio
Romain Dillet (via Jason Snell): While Amazon’s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten’s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech giants. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a distinct strategy with […]
Wattpad Premium subscribers now have access to 5 free monthly Wattpad Originals
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Wattpad announced today “Premium Picks,” a new offering that gives Premium and Premium+ subscribers monthly access to five free Wattpad Originals — the recently launched freemium model where select authors can choose to monetize chapters. Instead of paying to unlock content, members are now given five Wattpad Originals each month at no additional cost. The […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Kindle for Mac 7.0
Filipe Espósito: Amazon launched an official Kindle app for macOS more than eight years ago, allowing Mac users to download and read their ebooks from Amazon’s platform on their computer. […] On Tuesday, the official Kindle app available on the Mac App Store was updated to version 1.40.2. But while the release notes mention that […]