We're used to Humble Bundle's amazing video game deals, but did you know it is a purveyor of e-books as well? This week, Humble Bundle has released an e-book deal that is specifically for entrepreneurs who want to start their own technology companies. There are a number of titles for budding technology businesspeople with the book bundles starting from US$1. Here are the details.
Now you don't even need to install Kindle's Mac or PC app to read some free pages out of ebooks. Amazon just released "Kindle for the Web", which allows free browser sampling and site embedding of any Kindle preview pages.
Android: The Kindle app for Android now offers more of the functionality Kindle fans have come to expect, including the syncing of notes, highlighted phrases, full text search throughout e-books. More Android-specifically, you can search for a phrase using your voice.
Just getting started with your Android phone or know somebody who is? Want a better understanding of Android's features? Check out The Complete Android Guide, a comprehensive and free wiki-style site, ebook and paperback guide to Google's smart phone system, written by yours truly.
Microsoft has released a free — and lengthy! — e-book covering a wide range of security topics. Although intended for teenagers, the book offers a solid enough look at using the internet safely, and it's suitable for anyone who needs a primer on internet security.
The Nielsen Norman Group gave 25 people a short story by Ernest Hemingway to read on one of four platforms: PC desktop, Kindle, iPad, or printed book. Their study found that iPads and Kindles slowed reading 6.2 and 10.7 percent, respectively, compared to print.
Last month, we noted that the Kobo application for the iPad had major rendering problems. New evidence suggests that's an ongoing issue across several platforms.
It took long enough for the Kindle to hit Australian shores, but the range of e-book choices have increased rapidly in recent months. The latest development? The promise that soon you'll be able to buy e-book readers and titles in Borders' Australian stores.
If you're a bibliophile forever in search of inexpensive ways to acquire new books you'll want to check out The Book Depository a book seller with a focus on a huge inventory of books that always ship for free.
E-book readers are popular for reading digital books, but they've got their limitations. If you have a netbook, you already have a powerful and virtually unrestricted portable e-book reader on your hands. You just need to know how to set it up.
Amazon has begun shipping the international version of the Kindle this week, and the local market is already responding nervously. But if the device does succeed in making e-books more palatable, will it also lead to a rise in piracy?
Perhaps because there isn't enough news about the Google Books deal already, Google announced that it would offer up more than half a million books to "any device with a browser" in early 2010.
When we asked earlier this week how readers preferred to access electronic books, we got a wide range of responses. An unscientific summary would be: there's all sorts of devices in use, the iPhone is popular and we didn't give enough credit to the Nintendo DS. But there's clearly still room for a killer e-book reader, though whether that's the Kindle seems open to debate.
Last week's announcement that the Kindle will go on sale in Australia is widely expected to increase the visibility of electronic books in Australia. However, Kindle isn't the only game in town. Which options are Lifehacker readers already using to read electronic books?
