Shortcovers comes to dedicated e-book devices
By Paul Biba
Shortcovers is now available on a bunch of dedicated e-book readers. Here is the info:
eReading devices have become an increasingly popular way for people to read digitally. The convenience of being able to carry multiple volumes and the ability to create a digital library of thousands of eBooks, as well as additional functionality like annotations, highlighting, text resizing and bookmarking make eReaders a natural choice for travelers, students and avid readers.
Shortcovers.com eBooks can be transferred to the following eReading devices:
Sony Reader:
PRS-300 Reader Pocket Edition
PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition
PRS-505 Reader Digital Edition
PRS-700BC Reader Digital EditionAsktak:
EZ Reader
EZ Reader Pocket Pro
MentorBeBook:
One
Mini
Bookeen:Cybook Opus
Cybook Gen 3COOL-ER Classic
Elonex eBook 600
HanLin eBook:
HanLin V3
HanLin V5IREX Digital Reader 1000S
Neolux NUUT2
In order to read shortcovers.com content on your eReading device, you must first transfer your books to the device using eReader software like Adobe® Digital Editions.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Shortcovers is distributing Adobe ePubs, and the device list is from Adobe. However, six devices from the list alternatively support MOBI and not all owners will switch from the MOBI to the Adobe ePub firmware. Two of these (Cybook Gen 3 and DR1000S) don’t have Adobe firmware today, although the Cybook firmware is due any day now.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Can we please try to avoid using the term “ereaders” (and especially “eReaders”) as much as possible?
“eReader” is a specific e-book reading app and format owned by Fictionwise.
Calling dedicated e-book readers “ereaders” can lead to too much confusion.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Now can we get them to charge more reasonable prices? As an examples, I can pay less than eight bucks (less than nine buck Canadian) at either Books on Board or the Sony eBook store for Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys, or I can pay $11.89 Canadian at Shortcovers, a full two dollars higher than they even charge for the p-book. What idiot is deciding on their pricing structure?
September 12th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
There are other details.
http://ebooktest.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/shortcovers-now-offers-downloadable-epub-ebooks/
Like it not yet being official. Duh.