IndieBound — Like everyone else, independent bookstores are struggling in today’s knuckle-dragging economy, but their problems started years ago with the arrival of big-box bookstores in malls.
IndieBound goes a long way to remind us that we should support local businesses, like independent booksellers, which keeps jobs and dollars in the community. According to the American [...]

Netwalk’s myBooks is a database for your personal library.
You can enter the name of the book manually, by typing information into the provided fields (year, genre, purchased, whether you loaned it to a friend) or you can search for the title on the Internet and select the book you own from a list.
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Wattpad, from the company by the same name, is an example of socialism in action. Wattpad was founded on the idea it would be an electronic meeting place where any community member could share his or her own content and read content written or contributed by any other community member.
Anyone can upload gothic [...]

Amazon’s Kindle has revolutionized how many people approach reading. The iPhone has done the same for mobile phones. Combine the two and you have your favorite mobile apps and books all in one device. The strength of the Kindle for iPhone is the access it provides to Amazon’s vast online store of ebooks.

I wanted to like iSurvive Wilderness but in the end, it lost me. North New Orleans Blade Works’ app aims to be a pocket survival guide for anyone who might lose their way in the wilds and need to find food, start a fire, navigate, perform first aid and do all the other things they [...]

The Bird & The Snail — Knock Knock is a new interactive storybook app released by Haunted House Publishing. The story of a bird and a snail who thoughtlessly gobble up an apple, which turns out to be a little worm’s home, is depicted through charming hand-drawn charcoal images that become animated throughout the story. As [...]

We were recently offered the chance to review Credit Secrets Investigated, an ebook by Tony D’Andrea published for the iPhone by AppEngines. You may have noticed, we don’t do too many book reviews around here. However, there’s been a lot of talk recently about reading on the iPhone — especially after the “there’s an app [...]

Put a sign that says “Free” on anything from a broken Beta VCR to a basket of kittens, and I’ll probably take it home. When I came across Lexcycle’s e-Reader Stanza in the App Store, I grabbed it, even though I seldom read lengthy docs on my iPhone. I’m glad I did.
Stanza is an e-reader [...]

It isn’t exactly the holidays yet but we can already think of a couple of applications that might be gift worthy. Classics by Andrew Kaz and Phillip Ryu is just that kind of application.
Classics is an eReader application that includes full versions of literary favorites from the public domain. Download Classics and you’ll be instantly [...]