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Rakuten to acquire Kobo no comments
Yesterday it was announced that Rakuten and Kobo have entered into an agreement that will see all of Kobo’s outstanding shares purchased by the Japanese e-commerce giant for $315 million in cash.
Once the deal is closed (subject to approval by the appropriate Canadian regulatory agencies), Kobo’s headquarters, management team and employees will continue to be based in Toronto, Ontario.
Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman and CEO of Rakuten, commented on the acquisition, “We are very excited about this next step. Kobo provides one of the world’s most communal eBook reading experiences with its innovative integration of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter; while Rakuten offers Kobo unparalleled opportunities to extend its reach through some of the world’s largest regional e-commerce companies, including Buy.com in the US, Tradoria in Germany, Rakuten Brazil, Rakuten Taiwan, Lekutian in China, TARAD in Thailand, and Rakuten Belanja Online in Indonesia, and of course, Rakuten Ichiba in Japan.”
“From a business and cultural perspective this is a perfect match,” commented Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis. “We share a common vision of creating a content experience that is both global and social. Rakuten is already one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms, while Kobo is the most social eBook service on the market and one of the world’s largest eBook stores with over 2.5 million titles. This transaction will greatly strengthen our position in our current markets and allow us to diversify quickly into other countries and e-commerce categories.”
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Kobo unveils Vox tablet no comments
Not to be outdone by Barnes & Noble and Amazon, Kobo today announced a 7-inch Android tablet of its own. Dubbed the Vox — as in Vox Populi; voice of the people — Kobo’s new tablet will retail for $199.99, about the same price as the Kindle Fire.
The Vox will run on Android 2.3 and features an AFFS+ LCD display. AFFS (Advanced fringe field switching) is the LCD technology developed and licensed by Hydis, a division of E Ink Holdings. The AFFS+ version of the technology is supposed to have improved outdoor readability, and the Vox also has an anti-glare coating to help with this.
The Vox will, of course, feature the Kobo ereading app. Kobo also says that the Vox will have access to an app store containing over 15,000 free apps. It will be interesting to see if the Kindle app is there, as Kobo’s reading app is available at Amazon’s Appstore for Android.
Kobo is beefing up its selection of color ebooks, and the Vox will come with three of these free. Digital Magazines will be via Zinio and a PressReader app will be onboard for newspapers. Unlimited music can be streamed to the Vox from RDIO.
Some of the other features of the Vox:
- Dimensions: 7.57 x 5.06 x .53 inches (192.4 x 128.4 x 13.4 mm).
- Screen resolution 1024 x 600 (same as the Kindle Fire).
- Battery life up to 7 hours.
- Built-in email client; contacts, calendar, music player, photo gallery, video player.
- 8GB internal memory;micro SD card slot.
There will be four colors of Vox tablets to choose from — Hot Pink, Lime Green, Ice Blue and Jet Black — and the Vox will come with the familiar Kobo quilted back.
The Vox is available for pre-order today in the US and Canada, and will be available elsewhere on the planet in the future. In Canada, Kobo’s new tablet will be available from Indigo Books & Music, Future Shop and Best Buy. In the US the Vox will be offered by Kobo, Best Buy and Fry’s.
To promote the launch of the Vox, Kobo is having another contest. Each ebook purchased between today and Oct 31, 2011 counts as an entry into a drawing giving away 10 Vox eReaders. There is as usual a non-purchase route of entry as well — see Kobo for details.
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Kobo Touch firmware update no comments
Kobo has released an update for the Kobo Touch Edition eReader. Some of the changes included in v1.9.11 include the ability to search for words within a book, an enhanced battery icon, and books in the ereader’s library will now show the percentage read. Kobo has also beefed up the already strong social ereading features of the Touch Edition with enhanced Facebook integration.
The Kobo Desktop app has also been updated and now allows for searching for words within a book and has a faster syncing time on Windows.
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Kobo Touch Edition eReader Review no comments
Kobo has updated its line of ereaders with the Kobo Touch Edition which, as the name implies, features a touchscreen. The zForce touchscreen from Neonode that it uses is the same as that of the Nook Simple Touch and the current generation of Sony ereaders.
I’ve been using my Kobo Touch for about six weeks now. I’m a bit late getting my review out, but I’ve had time to read a couple of ebooks on the ereader and to see three software updates already. Each of the updates from Kobo has brought new features — not all of which are documented, like the new drawing program I found while making the video. While I have found the Kobo Touch to be a relatively basic ereader in terms of its present features, I expect it will evolve rapidly if Kobo continues to release updates this aggressively.
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The packaging of the Kobo Touch Edition, while not as stylish as the boxing of the Nook Simple Touch, is practical and easy to open. The ereader exposed by the unboxing looks good, though it is a more squarish design and somewhat less elegant looking than the Nook Touch. 
The batteries arrived with about an 85 percent charge. There is no AC adaptor, so you need to charge it over the USB cable with your computer. The manual says you can use a generic USB wall charger as well.
To register and set up the Kobo Touch you need to use the USB to connect it to a computer that has the Kobo desktop application installed on it. I don’t much like this “feature” — setup should be accomplishable from the ereader itself. It does have Wi-Fi, after all. This requirement means more software to load onto one’s computer and it will make the ereader less suitable for those who are not computer savvy.
The Kobo PC application installed easily enough and I got my new ereader connected and set up with no glitches to report.
The Kobo Touch does feel good in my hands. I really like the way the quilted back feels and it is even a tad lighter than the new Nook ereader. Construction seems to be pretty good. The front and back are covered with the by now familiar nonslip rubberized coating. This makes the ereader more comfortable to hold, but it does collect dust.
There are no hard page turning buttons — only swiping or tapping the touchscreen is used for turning pages. The bezel is also rather narrow and it took me a while to find a comfortable position in which to hold this ereader one-handed without inadvertently touching the screen with my thumb and causing unwanted page turns. As I got used to the Kobo Touch this became a non-problem, but I prefer the presence of page-turning buttons as it does help to find a more comfortable way in which to hold and operate an ereader with one hand.
Other than the power slider switch at the top edge, the only hard button on the Kobo Touch is a chromed button on the bezel below the screen. This takes you to the Home screen.
The Home screen displays the five most recently read and added ebooks. 
At the bottom of the Home screen are virtual buttons to access the settings of the ereader and to sync to your Kobo account (and other Kobo apps). If you are reading a book and want to change settings, including turning Wi-Fi on or off, you will have to close your book and do so from here. The web browser is also accessed via the settings page.
At the top of the Home page are status icons for the battery and Wi-Fi connection. Battery life seems to be mediocre for an e-ink based ereader. With Wi-Fi on I only got about 10 days. With the Wi-Fi mostly turned off the battery lasted approximately 2 1/2 weeks before needing recharging.
Also at the top of the Home screen are buttons to take you to your library, shop at Kobo or go to the Reading Life page. Reading Life is Kobo’s social ereading platform. You will notice whilst reading that there will be an occasional message at the bottom of the page making you aware of a new award you have just earned. The Reading Life page lets you see your awards and various reading stats and share them with friends.
In your library you can choose to sort by Books, Periodicals, Previews or the Shortlist. The Shortlist is a kind of category you can place your favorite titles into to make them easier to get at. Of course, finding your ebooks would be easier if Kobo had thought to include the ability to create your own categories or bookshelves, but this feature is absent — at least as of yet. Books are added to the Shortlist by tapping on a heart icon beside the ebook’s thumbnail when viewing your library in List View. You can also add a title to the Shortlist while you are reading it.
Besides List View you can display a grid of book covers only or one cover per page. You can sort by Title, Author or Recent Reads. There is also a search tool, and you can delete titles from the device from within the library.
I’ve had the Kobo Touch Edition long enough to read a couple of ebooks on it and I’ve also opened and scanned through a few more. I have noticed some formatting inconsistencies that are rather worrisome.
Kobo’s approach to ereading seems overly chapter-centric to me. Kobo ebooks on the Kobo Touch display the page number in terms of your position within the chapter. For example, Chapter One – Page 7 of 29, where the same ebook on the Nook Touch might show Page 78 of 329. This is no big deal, but showing your position in relation to the total book would seem more useful to me.
More troublesome is that when you turn the last page of a given chapter there is a small spinning whirligig at the top of the page with a loading message. The last page turn of a chapter takes slightly longer than a normal page turn as the ereader launches the next chapter in your ebook. This is not a good thing.
Even less of a good thing is the occasional dropping of a line of text I experienced when reading a Kobo book. This probably happened 10-15 times
while reading an ebook of almost 400 pages. The missing line of text could be induced to give up its game of hide and seek by resizing the font — but this is definitely something that needs to be fixed. This appears to be a problem with the Kobo Touch ereader itself — the same Kobo ebook, when sideloaded to the Nook Touch did not suffer any dropped lines of text. The photo shows the line of text on the Nook Simple Touch (left) that is missing on the Kobo Touch. I have occasionally noticed dropped words when reading ebooks on other ereaders, but this was a bit excessive.
The second ebook I read on the Kobo TE was a library ebook that I sideloaded onto the ereader with Adobe DE. This ebook displayed the page numbers in the more conventional manner and didn’t suffer from the dropped line of text syndrome.
Hyperlinks to other locations within a book do not seem to be supported by the Kobo Touch Edition, even with an ebook purchased from Kobo. The hyperlinks worked fine when the same ebook was read on the Nook Touch or the Sony Touch ereaders.
One thing that bugs me about the Kobo Touch is that only automatic bookmarking is available at the moment. Unlike other touchscreen ereaders you cannot tap the upper right corner to set your own bookmarks whenever you want. The lack of this common feature is exacerbated by the lack of an effective ‘Back’ function and is going to be very frustrating if you are reading a title with endnotes or a bibliography you need to refer to while reading the text. You are going to have to manually find your way back and forth between the notes and your current reading position.
Tapping the center of the page while reading brings up a status bar at the top of the screen with a battery indicator and a toolbar at the bottom with a Home button (which is a waste, since there is a physical home button) and buttons for Menu, Navigation and Font selection.
The Menu button lets you go to the TOC, add the book to your Shortlist, Mark as Finished, open a Dictionary search page where you can type in a word to look up and a link to the Advanced Settings. I like Kobo’s Mark as Finished feature. This gives you the option of closing an ebook when you get to the end so that next time you open it you will start at the front rather than at the end page of the book.
The Advanced Settings page contains two items currently. First is a control that lets you set how often the e-ink screen does a complete refresh. The settings are from every page turn to every sixth page turn. This control would be appreciated on the Nook Touch, where occasional ghosting is evident. On the Kobo Touch Edition I never experienced any ghosting until I took the ereader outdoors and read in the sunlight for awhile.
After reading in the sun for 20-30 minutes I noticed not only artifacts of lines of text from previous pages, but a few dark black lines extending across the margins from the text to the edge of the screen began appearing. Changing the refresh rate made these effects go away, but this made me suspect that the Kobo Touch Edition has some heat dissipation issues.
A second Advanced Setting that was added in Kobo’s most recent software update (v1.9.6) gives you the ability to remove those annoying (to me anyway) page numbers that you sometimes see in the side margins of some ePub books.
Update 10/16/2011: Software update v1.9.12 has added an additional Advanced Setting: The ability to change where on the screen you tap to page forward or back. This update also brings the ability to make notes and highlights to the Kobo Touch.
The Navigation button gives you a slider to quickly navigate through the pages of the book, as well as arrow keys that will take you one page at a time in either direction or to the beginning or end of the current chapter. There is also an attempt at a Back function here. A recurved arrow icon (Kobo calls it the Snap Back icon) is supposed to return you to your original place, but in my experience it works very erratically and is not to be trusted. There is no Go To Page function.
The font button lets you choose between seven font styles, and you can easily add your own fonts as well. There are sliders to adjust font size, line spacing and margin width. You can also fiddle with the justification here.
Tapping and holding brings up the study tools, which at the moment consist of highlighting and dictionary lookup for Kobo ebooks, and a dictionary search page (and sometimes lookup) for sideloaded ebooks. Highlighting works for some sideloaded ebooks.
Reading PDF files on the Kobo Touch Edition is actually somewhat better than I anticipated. You can switch to landscape mode and you can zoom with a slider or by double tapping. Panning works pretty smoothly for an e-ink based device. Generally tablets work better for PDFs that you need to do a lot of panning and zooming with, while an e-ink display will be easier on the eyes and probably better for reading text-only ebooks in PDF format. The Kobo Touch ereader does not yet provide any annotation tools for PDF files — at least none where available in the PDFs I tried. You can open the dictionary search tool to type in a word for definition in PDFs.
To launch the Web browser on the Kobo Touch you have to go to the Home screen and then tap the settings icon and then Wi-Fi Connection and finally the Launch Browser button. The web browser on e-ink devices is never a first choice for me, but it is nice to have it if you don’t have another better suited device handy. The browser on the Kobo Touch seems very basic and I found it very frustrating to use. I could not find a way to get the browser to display in landscape, which would improve the experience. The keyboard is too small for me to use in portrait mode for entering addresses and other information without lots of frustrating mistakes.
The zForce touchscreen on the Kobo Touch does not seem quite as responsive as it is on the Nook Touch, and it really does not work well when using the browser. At times I had to tap a button a number of times to get a response. The touch screen also does not seem very accurate in the browser, which makes using the small keyboard in the browser make you want to bang your head on the wall.
Kobo Touch Edition vs Kindle 3 vs Nook Simple Touch
The Kobo Touch Edition is not a bad ereader, but it is overshadowed by the Nook Touch and the Kindle 3. I do expect it will get better, as Kobo has already released several updates that have brought improvements.
Compared to last year’s Kindle 3 the Kobo Touch Edition still seems rather basic and its feature set is relatively sparse. The Kindle 3 is thinner and more comfortable to hold and use one-handed. The Kindle 3 also seems faster to me, except when performing tasks where the touchscreen has obvious advantages over the hard keyboard and five-way controller. The Kobo Touch also, of course, does not give you access to the Kindle Store.
Neither is the Kobo Touch enticing when compared to the Nook Touch. The Kobo TE is not as pleasing to either the eye or the hand as the newest Nook. The Nook Touch is faster and features a better designed navigational system that is more intuitive to learn and more friendly to use. And while the Nook Touch may not have quite as many features and capabilities as the Kindle 3, it does have most of the features most readers will need and definitely more than the Kobo Touch Edition ereader.
Another thing to consider is that the Nook Touch will allow you to buy and read ebooks from Kobo and other ePub bookstores. While the Kobo Touch will let you read ebooks purchased from other ebookstores like the Sony Reader Store, you cannot read Nook Books on it because B&N uses their own variation of Adobe DRM. This will mean access to fewer titles with the Kobo ereader.
One advantage the Kobo Touch Edition does enjoy over the Nook Touch is that it is available internationally. Kobo is also opening new international ebookstores with local content.
I like the Kobo ebookstore as they often have coupons and discounts. In spite of the agency model fixing most ebook pricing you can sometimes find a better deal at Kobo. But I would recommend the Nook Touch (see my review) or the Kindle 3 (review) ereader as my first choice. Perhaps if the Kobo were priced at less than $100 it would be more appealing. But the Kindle Wi-Fi with Special Offers is only $114, so I’m not sure how much below $100 Kobo would have to go.
The Kobo Touch Edition eReader is currently priced at $129.99 and is available at Best Buy and Fry’s in the US. In Canada it is sold by Chapters Indigo Coles, Future Shop, Best Buy, Walmart, Sears (in stores only) and online only at Staples.
Kobo Touch Edition covers & cases
CaseCrown makes a variety of covers and cases for the Kobo Touch Edition that are under $20.
The Verso ereader covers from Lightwedge are marketed primarily for the Kindle 3 ereader at Amazon, but Lightwedge designed these covers to fit any ereader that is 4.5 – 4.9 inches x 6.7 – 7.7 inches. These covers are compatible with the Kobo eReaders and range in price from $39.99 to $49.99. I have one of these — see my review.
DecalGirlmakes skins to fit the Kobo Touch Edition, with currently just over 100 designs to choose from.
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Kobo removes store from iOS app no comments
Kobo has released a new updated version of its iPad/iPhone app that removes the ability to shop at Kobo’s ebookstore from within the app. This is to comply with Apple’s current rules. Otherwise Kobo would have had to give a 30 percent cut to Apple of any books sold through the app. Now you will need to fire up the browser and point it to Kobo.com to buy ebooks from your iDevice.
The update also adds a news feed that provides Kobo related news and promotions. There is now a small megaphone beside the Reading Life icon at the top of the library screen that you can tap to access this feature.
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Kobo comments on Borders liquidation no comments
Borders is in the hands of the liquidators now — the liquidation process could start at some of the remaining stores and other facilities as soon as this Friday and is expected to be finished by the end of September. Borders currently operates 399 stores and provides jobs for almost 11,000 employees.
Today Kobo issued a press release concerning the Borders liquidation. As you know, Kobo powers the Borders ebookstore. Borders also owns 11 percent of Kobo.
Kobo management provides the following facts regarding the company:
- Kobo is a privately-held company that offers over 2.4 million eBooks, newspapers, and magazines — one of the largest eReading catalogues in the world.
- Readers from over 100 countries across the globe download and read using Kobo’s top-ranked free eReading applications for iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows and MacOS. Kobo is the eReading application of choice for leading tablet OEMs.
- While Borders is one of the early investors in Kobo, it holds only a minority stake in Kobo, approximately 11 percent. The Borders shares are subject to the terms of the Kobo shareholders’ agreement which, among other things, restricts their transfer or disposition.
- Borders serves as part of Kobo’s distribution in the U.S. along with Best Buy, Walmart, Sears and other top retailers.
- Kobo does not rely on Borders for content. Kobo owns the publishing agreements and has direct relationships with all major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, St. Martin’s Press and many more. Kobo is solely responsible for payment to publishers for eBooks sold through the Kobo platform and publishers will continue to be paid on time as usual.
- For some time, Kobo and Borders have been in the process of transitioning Borders’ customers’ eBook accounts to Kobo, in order to provide such customers direct access to the most up-to-date eReading functionality, apps and devices. All Borders customers that have transitioned to Kobo shall enjoy uninterrupted access to their e-Reading accounts. Kobo shall continue to work with Borders to transition customer accounts to Kobo.
- For those Borders customers who haven’t transferred their eBook libraries to Kobo, the process is quick and easy. Borders customers can visit kobo.to/bmigrate to transfer their Borders eBook library to Kobo. No additional steps are required to continue reading on your Kobo eReader. For those Borders customers that are using Borders apps to access their eBook libraries, visit kobo.com to download a free Kobo eReading app for your computer, smartphone or tablet.
- Owners of Kobo eReaders will continue to use their Kobo eReader as usual, and be able to browse and shop for new titles in the Kobo Store with no interruption or change in service.
- Kobo continues to grow in the U.S. and around the world. Kobo is very pleased with progress of the launch of the new Kobo eReader Touch Edition which is available at leading retailers including Indigo, Walmart, Best Buy and WH Smith.
- Kobo continues to build international growth with the successful launch of Kobo in Germany, the first rollout of several planned international launches.
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Kobo Touch Edition – new firmware update; adding fonts no comments
Kobo has released a new software update for the Kobo Touch Edition. I believe that v1.9.6 is the third update since Kobo’s latest ereader was released.
This update adds some enhancements to Reading Life, like being able to share your awards on Facebook. More importantly (to my mind at least), Kobo has added dictionary support to “all supported eBook formats.” The inability to use the dictionary in sideloaded ebooks was a big mark against the Kobo Touch prior to this update. There is also now a dictionary search tool that allows you to type in a word for lookup. Additionally, the update says that font controls now work in “all supported eBook formats.”
I’m currently reading a library ePub on my Kobo Touch. The dictionary function seems to work fine with this title now. I also tried using the dictionary with other sideloaded ePubs, a PDF file and a TXT file. With the PDF and TXT titles you can’t tap and hold on a word to look it up, but you do get the dictionary search tool.
Update: Software v1.9.6 also added a new feature to the Advanced Settings page. You can now elect to turn off those annoying page numbers that sometimes show up in the side margins of some ePub books.
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The previous update allowed users to add their own fonts to the Kobo Touch Edition. I just got a chance to try this and it is very quick and easy to do:
First you need to connect your ereader to a computer. Once connected it should show up as KOBOeReader Removable Disk or something similar. Click on that to open a window showing the files and folders on the Kobo Touch. Create a new folder on the ereader titled ‘fonts’. Now simply add the fonts you want into this folder. It is probably a good idea to include the italicized and bolded versions as well. You could also use only the bolded version if that is easier for you to read.
Where to get fonts? There’s a bunch of them in the Fonts folder of the Windows directory if you have a Windows PC. Just be careful that you copy rather than move (right click and select ‘Copy’ ) the font files to the ereader — you do not want to accidently move the fonts off of your computer! You can run a search of your computer for ‘fonts’ to find more. Some graphics packs contain fonts or you can find free fonts to download on the Internet.
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Kobo launches German ereading store no comments
A few months ago Kobo announced that it would be launching ebookstores with local content in several European countries. Today the company announced the launch of the first in Germany.
At launch the store has 80,000 German-language ebooks. With the additional ebooks available in English and other languages plus the usual public domain titles the store contains a total of 2.4 million ebooks according to Kobo.
The Kobo eReader Touch Edition will be coming in a German version in August. Kobo has also released German-language versions of its free ereading apps for iOS and Android (available here), with a PlayBook version in the works. The Kobo Reading Life social ereading platform will be released in German as well.
Kobo’s German store (www.kobobooks.de) will soon be followed by country-specific stores for Spain, France, Italy and Netherlands.
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Kobo Touch Edition software updated no comments
A few days ago Kobo updated the software of the Touch Edition eReader to version 1.9.5. This update is all about font selection and page layout. There are now 7 fonts on the Touch Edition as well as a suite of page layout tools. You can also load your own fonts onto the ereader.
I have the Kobo Touch Edition ereader and was working on a review of it when the nexus issue waylaid that with all of the work I have to do to regenerate the pages of the site. This is the second update since I have had the ereader and it does add some important features.
Prior to this version of the software the Touch Edition only had a pair of buttons to adjust the font size larger or smaller. This has been replaced with a slider, which is much better as it gives you some sort of visual gauge of the relative size of the font size currently selected — if that makes any sense. The largest font size is about the same size as the Kindle’s largest — a little larger than the largest font size of the Nook Touch. The new font style choices are much appreciated as I was not that stoked with the original two.
The Kobo Touch Edition is a good ereader, but I can say after my use so far that I prefer the Nook Touch as it is more attractive, navigation is easier and the touchscreen at times seems to be more responsive. The battery life of the newest Kobo ereader can’t touch the Nook either — with Wi-Fi on I had to recharge the Kobo after less than two weeks. If Kobo keeps aggressively pushing out updates with improvements like this latest one the Touch Edition is going to be getting better quickly however.
Even if all other things were equal, the Nook Touch still has one insurmountable advantage (in North America anyway) over the Kobo Touch Edition: With the Nook Touch you can buy and read ebooks from Kobo and other ePub sellers as well as Nook Books; with the Kobo Touch Edition you can buy from other ePub stores besides Kobo, but you cannot read Nook Books. This is because B&N flavours their ePubs with their own special DRM sauce.
On the other hand the Kobo ereader, like the Kindle, has the advantage of being available internationally with ebookstores featuring local content in some regions.
I am becoming really used to having a touchscreen on my ereaders. The chiclet keyboard and five-way controller of the Kindle seem rather tedious in comparison. Every time I pick up the Kindle now I find myself trying to touch the screen to make things happen, which doesn’t seem to work very well. Can’t wait for a Kindle Touch Edition.
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Free ebooks for the Kindle & other ereaders – 06/24/2011 no comments
More free ebooks:
Desperate Times by Nicholas Antinozzi (no ratings) Thriller. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Dear Cupid by Julie Ortolon (no reviews) Romance.
Turning Ethics Into Outcomes: Three Steps to Build “Integrity Capital” to Manage Risk and Drive Performance by Corporate Executive Board (no ratings) Business. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Intelligence Was My Line: Inside Eisenhower’s Other Command by Ralph W. Hauenstein (4 1/2 stars/3 reviews) History.
Sasha: A Trial of Blood and Steel Book One by Joel Shepherd (3 stars/1 review) Fantasy.
Color Me Murder – Sin City by Jerry Bruce (3 stars/1 review) Mystery.
If at First . . . by Peter F. Hamilton (no reviews) Science fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Mobile Marketing Playbook by 360i (no ratings) Business. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Dark Legacy by Anna DeStefano (3 stars/20 reviews) Romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
A Knight’s Charge by Gerard A. Whitfield (no ratings) Science fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Goal Setting: Discover What You Want in Life and Achieve It Faster than You Think Possible by SelfMadeEasy.com (5 stars/4 reviews) Self-Help.
Putt Up or Shut Up: A Shanktacular Guide to Golf’s Greatest Excuses by Kevin Michael & Kevin Michael (4 stars/1 review) Golf. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
When the Devil Whistles by Rick Acker (4 stars/31 reviews) Thriller. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Her Best Catch by Lindi Peterson (4 1/2 stars/11 reviews) Romance.
The Leader’s Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles by Michael Useem (no ratings) Business. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Haint Misbehavin’ by Maureen Hardegree (4 1/2 stars/12 reviews) Young Adult.
The Days of Summer by Jill Barnett (4 1/2 stars/14 reviews) Contemporary fiction.
My Objection to a Sinning Religion by Bud Robinson (no ratings) Religion. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Entire Sanctification by C.B. Jernigan (3 stars/1 review) Religion. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Brains: How They Seem to Work by Dale Purves (4 stars/34 reviews) Science. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Claimed (The Circulate Series) by K.R. Smith (1 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Candy Wars: The Tooth Fairies vs The Candy King by R. G. Cordiner (5 stars/9 reviews) Children’s fiction.
Dating a Cougar (Never Too Late Series) by Donna McDonald (4 1/2 stars/4 reviews) Romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Cougar Cub Tales: I’m Just Like You by Sharon Cramer (no ratings) Children’s fiction.
Chapter 1, Verse 1 by Tom Allen (5 stars/1 review) Religion. Also free at Kobo.
Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America by Eliot Pattison (3 1/2 stars/22 reviews) Historical mystery.
PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences by Deirdre Breakenridge (4 stars/6 reviews) Public relations. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing by Natalie Canavor (4 1/2 stars/47 reviews) Business. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
How to Innovate in Marketing (Collection) by Rawn Shah (4 stars/1 review) Business. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
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Today’s deal at Woot is a refurbished Archos 7 8GB Android tablet for $79.99 plus $5 shipping.
