WordPlayer – ebook reader for Android
By Paul Biba
At the IDPF Conference I met Andrew Sacher who is CEO of Word-Player. This is an ebook reader for Android. Andrew said that the app will read EPUB and that he had gotten 60K downloads in the last 2 months. You can connect directly from the app to Feedbooks or Gutenberg. According to Andrew it was easy to put the app together in a programming sense and he gets good support from the Android website. He also said that it was very easy to upload the program to the Android app store and it was on the store and avialable in seconds.
The app has one-touch highlighting, which is easier than on the Kindle because the G1 has a touch screen, and bookmarking and computer assisted speech. Currently, of course, its on the G1, but it will run on all phones equipped with Android.
I don’t have a G1 so I can’t check it out. If any of our readers do have the phone (I know Travis Alber of BookGlutton has one) please leave a comment here, or if you’d like to do a full review get in touch with me about publishing it.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
It’s nice to have more options for reading on my GPhone! (Although I’d imagine there are a number of Android apps in the works).
A few things that they’ll probably iron out include simplifying the process for getting another book into my library and the long, scrolling pages that aren’t paginated for screensize. I’m glad to see they link right out to Google Books for content, though, as well as let you download epub files.
I look forward to seeing what they do next!