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Today we released new versions of our popular app for browsing, discovering and reading eBooks on your Blackberry. The new app has improved discovery and browsing of our catalog, and a new reading interface with improved navigation & fonts, making the bookstore in your pocket even better! This...

You can now grab an OPML package of our merchandised eBook lists here. You can use the ATOM feeds inside to integrate eBooks into your website, widgets, desktop or mobile application. This lists included will be updated daily. Let us know if you have any questions at [email protected]...

If you ever wondered what a last-minute, embargoed title release looks like, our Wednesday afternoon went something like this: 12:21pm - Random House calls up and lets us know that they’ve secured the rights to release an ebook version of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol on September 15th...

People have been talking about eBooks for almost a decade, and BAM! in the last year, a virtual eBook tsunami hit and now you read about eBooks everywhere, everyday. In the halls of publishers and booksellers, there are a lot of ‘discussions’ about pricing, formats, cannibalization, what happened...

Shortcovers will be getting the eBook for Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol, this September 15th, coinciding with the physical book launch. We are also confirming that we will make the book available for $9.99 USD and $11.99 CAD. Delivery starts as soon as 12:01 Pacific on...

In an earlier post (Pricing Improvements, and What’s Next!), we responded to a lot of the early feedback we were getting about improving our pricing. In that post, we talked about how we were going about pricing improvements. Well, just in case you were wondering, we haven’t stopped...

Shortcovers is excited to announce a new service – the Shortcovers Publisher Conversion Program. Publishers can provide us with their digital source files – PDFs, Quark files, InDesign, .doc, .rtf – and for a shockingly low fee*, we’ll convert them into ePUB files, load them up into Shortcovers...

When I spoke at the recent Digital Book 2009 conference, I talked about our mobile platforms, and said that iPhone was where the current battle for the hearts and minds of mobile phone readers is being fought, with Blackberry being the next big target. To that point, we’ve...

We have some pretty big announcements today here at Shortcovers: New Blackberry App We have released a new version of our Blackberry application. The most notable change in the Blackberry app is that it no longer requires users to sign up for Shortcovers to get started – you...

Today BookNet Canada ran an all dayEPUB Boot Camp for publishers interested in learning about ePub. Two members of the Shortcovers team attended and put together a presentation about what ePub is, how publishers can best format their ePub files, both generally for interoperability and also for loading...