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Mercury Hg

September 30, 2011

It was with surprise, and a little glee, that we noticed that a game I worked on in the concept and pitch phase was available for download on the PS3 this week. Yes I usually am the last to know. Mercury Hg is a physics puzzle game, in which you have to steer your little [...]

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WANT

September 17, 2011

..and also NEED!

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Waterstone’s to launch e-reader

September 9, 2011

Waterstone’s is to launch a digital e-reader to rival Amazon’s Kindle next year. The company’s managing director, James Daunt, told the BBC he had been inspired by Barnes & Noble’s successful Nook device. The US bookseller is one of the few high street retailers to have challenged Amazon’s growing dominance in both physical and electronic [...]

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Microsoft cancels its Reader e-book app

August 16, 2011

Microsoft has quietly announced that it is to discontinue support of its e-book app. There will be no new content for the app after November 8, and the company will end support by 2012. Users will continue to have indefinite access to their purchased content housed on their device, but Microsoft has no plans to [...]

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Kindle Cloud Reader puts books in your browser

August 10, 2011

As if having access to your Kindle library on your iPhone, Android phone, tablet and, er, Kindle wasn’t enough, you can now read your books in your browser. That is, so long as you’re using Google Chrome, or Safari on a computer or iPad. The new Web app from Amazon is called Kindle Cloud Reader, [...]

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British Library offers e-classics app

August 2, 2011

The British Library is making digital copies of more than 40,000 classic books available for the iPad. Texts appear in fully digitised form, complete with original page markings and drawings, as opposed to the plain formatting associated with other types of e-books. All of the works date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include [...]

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Apple forces changes to e-reader apps

July 26, 2011

It had to happen sooner or later. According to a report on CNet, Apple has kicked out other e-reader apps (or made buying off them more of a hassle). Apple twice amended its terms for subscriptions in the App Store, requiring companies to give Apple a 30 percent cut on sales their apps generate. In [...]

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Borders cuts store feature in e-reader app

July 9, 2011

The first of the big name e-book reading apps has removed links to its external e-bookstore in order to conform with Apple’s recently-implemented App Store policy. Borders, which has has had its e-book offering on the App Store for more than a year, today updated its application to completely remove the built-in Kobo bookstore browser, [...]

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