E-Books on Your Phones, Big E-Newspapers
Lots of news for you if you love e-Books. You probably know by now that we are a big fan of the Kindle. But if you don’t want to fork out $359 or wait in line for one, here is a free instant solution for you.
Google Mobile Book Search Now Available
Google just announced that they are making 1.5 million books freely available via http://books.google.com/m. This is not a mobile bookstore, however. It’s simply the books that were already available on Google Book Search optimized for the small screen. You will notice that the books that are available via Google Book Search are rather old. Well, Google needs the copyright to be expired before they can publish them to the world, so this is not for you if you want to read this week’s New York Times Bestseller. Google Book Search also has a small number of titles that it has the publishers’ permissions to publish online.
Kindle Titles Coming To Your Phones
While we are still eagerly waiting for next week’s Kindle 2 announcement, New York Times reported yesterday that Amazon has confirmed that it is working on putting Kindle titles on a variety of mobile phones. No dates have been announced yet.
Big E-Newspaper
The Book Expo in Taiwan is showing e-readers that have approximately 24-inch screen. Local newspaper publishers are just showing them to gauge interest. It’s a little too big for us to carry, but Chinese Engadget reported that the screens are beautiful. One of them even has color.
