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We’ve had a busy couple of weeks here at Shortcovers: We celebrated the release of the biggest eBook of the year We launched an insanely popular new version of our Blackberry application We added support for downloading ePub files for offline reading, or reading on your dedicated eInk...

Move over Stephanie Meyer! In just one day, Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol, sold more eBook copies than the last one and a half months of Stephanie Meyer’s hit Twilight series. On Shortcovers, customers can buy eBooks to read on any device – popular eReaders like...

In a few short hours, there will be only one place you can purchase and download the Lost Symbol eBook and read it on your iPhone, Sony Reader, Blackberry, Android Smartphone, Palm Pre, laptop, online, or pretty much anywhere else. Proving that Shortcovers means it when we say...

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...