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Rudi Lehnert asked if there’s a way to open and read .epub books in a browser. Most of the e-books I read are in the .epub format, primarily because I’m allergic to Digital Rights Management. (An ...

Google announced that it is now indexing .epub documents, a format commonly used to print books for e-readers. Google is already showing EPUB books in the search index. EPUB is an XML-based eBook ...

The fact is, ebooks are still going through a lot of growing pains, which often leaves ebook early adopters like you in the lurch. As the always excellent Matt Buchanan over at Gizmodo explained, the ...

In an effort to take the confusion out of digital book formats, Sony announced its plan to convert its eBook store to the industry-standard EPUB format by the end of the year. Adopting an ...

Ebooks are available in many different formats, including the widely supported ePub standard. You can read ePub ebooks on Apple iPad, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, and Kobo eReader models; ...

TechCrunch summarizes notes from today's media event. Of interest, they seem to reveal that Apple's interactive textbook format is not quite the official ePub 3 spec: Books are not technically in the ...

Chances are you haven’t snagged a lucrative publishing deal for your novel yet. And while self-publishing has become ever more affordable, it still carries a stigma of “not good enough” along with it.

Amazon's Kindle will emerge as the e-Reader market leader and prime content supplier for electronic books. But the company isn't doing anything to help improve content standardization. With the ...