Kindle eReaders have a great feature that gives you an estimate of the reading time remaining in a chapter or book. But if you’ve ever left the Kindle idle for a long period of time, these stats can become skewed. Here’s how to reset them using a hidden Kindle setting.
Apple on Thursday released the iOS 7 update for its iBooks app. The new design brings no new functionality, but updates every graphical element of the app to match the slick, flat design of the rest of the company’s latest mobile operating system.
After announcing the program in September, Amazon has just launched Kindle MatchBook, which lets customers who purchase eligible print books add-on the eBook edition for a small fee. It may prove very popular with consumers, but publishers thus far aren’t too happy.
Apple on Wednesday released the fifth developer beta of its upcoming OS X Mavericks operating system. It was quickly determined that iBooks, Apple’s eBook software and digital store, had finally made an appearance. We now have some images to share of iBooks on OS X Mavericks Beta 5 courtesy of a TekRevue reader: The developer who sent us the picture notes that some features, such as searching the iBookstore, do not yet work properly. As part of the latest iTunes beta,
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Last week’s news that Microsoft is considering a $1 billion buyout of the Nook eBook company it formed with Barnes & Noble is less surprising in light of data revealed today by research firm Statista. According to data from the Association of American Publishers, eBooks accounted for nearly 23 percent of U.S. publisher revenue in 2012. On the year, eBooks accounted for 22.6 percent of sales as a percentage of U.S. trade publishers’ net revenue, up from 17.0 percent in
A little more than a year after forming an eBook venture with Barnes & Noble, Microsoft is reportedly seeking to buy out the venture’s digital assets to the tune of $1 billion, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch this week. Nook Media LLC, the spinoff formed after Microsoft’s $300 million investment in April 2012, handles digital book content for Barnes & Noble’s online Nook store, the Nook eReaders and Android-based tablets, and mobile apps for third party platforms. The company’s