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Happy 2010 !

December 31st, 2009

2009 has been a very amazing year for Aldiko. We started out with a goal to make more content available to more users. We have launched our ebook reading app for the Android platform and established a number of partnerships with publishers, ebook stores and content providers to make it possible for our users to discover, browse, purchase, download, read and organize ebooks right within the app. Our user base has reached over 200,000 within just a couple of months.

As we enter into 2010, we will continue our goal of brining more content to our users, providing an easy and convenient way for publishers, ebookstores and content providers to distribute content, as well as improving the overall user experience of the Aldiko app.

Last but not least, we want to thank Aldiko users, our partners and other friends in the publishing and mobile spaces for your great support this year. We are looking forward to continuing to serve and work with you in 2010. Wish all of you a very happy new year!

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German Version of Aldiko and German Catalog Now Available

December 9th, 2009

We are happy to release the German version of Aldiko in the latest update. A big thank to Christian Meyer for helping with the translation. In additional to that, we are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with German ebook store, Beam eBooks, to make a large collection of German ebooks available for direct purchase and download in Aldiko.

For German users, you will be now able to browse Beam eBooks’ online catalog, read detailed description of each ebook, purchase and download them directly within the Aldiko Book Reader application. You will be also able to enjoy a large collection of free German content from Beam eBooks’ catalog. The ebooks that you purchased and downloaded will be always on your personal digital bookshelf inside the application. You can enjoy reading them at anywhere and anytime you want, no cable, no internet and no subscription are required.

Start exploring now, happy reading!

About Beam eBook:

Beam eBook was founded in 2005 in Berlin, Germany. It’s an online eBook shop providing a broad variety of German-language literature, from crime thrillers to specialist books. eBooks from Beam eBooks can be read on various devices and are not restricted by DRM. The range of eBooks is constantly being extended. There is also a huge number of free eBooks available. To Beam eBooks, it is of great importance to deliver quick and customer-friendliy service. For further information about Beam eBooks, please visit: www.beam-ebooks.de

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O’Reilly Ebooks Now Available on Aldiko Online Catalog

October 28th, 2009

A couple weeks ago, we announced that O’Reilly had made dozens of titles on the Android market as standalone book applications using Aldiko technology. Today, we are excited to announce that O’Reilly ebooks are now available for direct purchase and download in Aldiko Book Reader app. Buying ebooks through Aldiko gives you the same benefit as buying ebooks directly on o’reilly.com. You will get free lifetime access to the book and 3 DRM-free file formats. What’s more, you’ll automatically get discount for any ebook purchase in Aldiko.

To discover O’Reilly ebooks, go to Aldiko Online Catalog, select “O’Reilly Ebooks”, choose a sub-catalog that interests you and select a title to read detailed description. When you are ready to purchase, just click “Add to Cart”, which will bring you to O’Reilly website to complete the transaction.

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Moreover, at any time when you want to re-download your purchased O’Reilly ebooks, you can always do so by going to “My O’Reilly Bookshelf” from O’Reilly Ebooks in Aldiko.

Why wait, start browsing and discovering now! Happy reading!

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About O’Reilly Media:

O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. For more information, please visit http://oreilly.com/.

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Special Halloween Collection For Your Enjoyment

October 27th, 2009

Halloween is just around the corner, are you ready for some scary time? For this special occasion and for your enjoyment, we have created a special Halloween collection on Aldiko’s online catalog. You can find such scary classics as “Dracula”, “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and more. Check it out!

Happy Halloween!

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French Version of Aldiko Now Available

October 21st, 2009

One of the main changes in the latest update (Version 1.2.0) is the support for French. A big thanks to Mathias Monnerville!

If you would like to see Aldiko translated in your own language and would like to help out with the translation, please drop us an email.

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Download and Read Thousands of All Romance eBooks on Aldiko

October 8th, 2009

Want to engage in some romance ebooks on the go? Today we’re excited to announce that All Romance Ebooks has made more than 10,000 romance titles accessible via Aldiko’s Online Catalog. Aldiko users are now able to browse, search, download excerpts, access free reads, make purchase and read thousands of romance titles directly and seamlessly on their Android device. With forty sub-genres of romance ebooks to choose from, your next romance title is just the touch of a finger away. Start discovering your next great read now. Happy reading!

The official press release and some screen shots are as follow:

Download and Read Thousands of All Romance™ eBooks Right on Your Android™Smartphone with the Aldiko Application

All Romance eBooks (ARe) has partnered with Aldiko to make their eBook catalog available to Google’s Android-powered mobile phones.

Palm Harbor, FL (PRWEB) October 1, 2009 – Readers will now be able to browse, search and seamlessly download more than 10,000 eBooks, including free reads, to their Android phones directly from ARe without a computer, cable or subscription using the Aldiko application.

With the Aldiko app readers can easily browse ARe’s extensive online book catalog, read detailed descriptions and book reviews, and quickly find the books they are looking for using a powerful search tool right on their Smartphone. They can organize their purchases by criteria such as title, author, or subject, edit detail information, tag, bookmark and search—all on a fully customizable display. New features include a full text search that allows readers to find words globally within the book, and a look up feature, which lets users search for a word in the dictionary, Wikipedia, or on Google.

“Readers love the convenience of being able to download ARe’s eBooks anytime, anywhere,” said Julie Cummings, ARe’s manager of Publicity and Marketing. ”Earlier this year we launched an iPhone compatible catalog and it’s been hugely popular with our consumers who use ATT. We’re really excited to now bring that same service to customers who use other cellular carriers,” Cummings added.

“Our mission at Aldiko is to provide an open platform where users can discover, access, read and manage a wide variety of digital publications instantly and seamlessly” said Tiffany Wong, co-founder of Aldiko. “The partnership with ARe will help us offer the best and broadest selection of titles to our users.”

Aldiko is available worldwide and is free on the Android Market as well as available as a paid premium app for Android open platform phones. To learn more visit Aldiko athttp://www.aldiko.com and Android at http://www.android.com.

All Romance eBooks, LLC was founded in 2006, is privately held in partnership, and headquartered in Palm Harbor, Florida. The company owns All Romance, which specializes in the sale of romance eBooks and OmniLit, which sells both fiction and non-fiction eBooks.

Aldiko Limited was founded in 2009. The company has developed an ebook reader application, “Aldiko Book Reader” for use on Android-powered devices. With Aldiko, users can build and organize their digital library, read on the go and wirelessly browse and download from a broad range of digital publications right on their Android-powered devices.

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28 O’Reilly Books Now Available as Android Apps Using Aldiko Technology

September 23rd, 2009

O’Reilly has made 28 of their titles available on the Android market as standalone book apps using Aldiko technology. These include “The Twitter Book” , “Facebook : The Missing Menu”, “YouTube, an insider’s guide” and more. All of the book apps are under the “Reference” category on the Android market, you can see the full list here.

The standalone book apps were built on top of the Aldiko Book Reader, therefore, you can find most of the features of Aldiko, including navigation control, search, bookmark, dictionary, front, margin and alignment setting, day/night theme and more. We did remove the library and import features because they are not needed in standalone book apps. All of the books are in non-DRMed ePub format, you can easily export the ePub files to your SD card by using the “Export” function and import them to Aldiko Book Reader.

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We’re excited to see how nicely color images can be displayed on Aldiko. We adjusted the images dynamically to the size of the device’s display, you can see the images as you go through the book and you can also do a long press on images to view and zoom them in a separate window.

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Moreover, you can do a long press on any link within a book to open them on browser.

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You will also find the “Forward/Backward” feature very useful in O’Reilly’s book apps. It allows you to go back to where you were before clicking a link to a different section of a book.

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The apps also showcase how we handle some complicated materials such as source code and table on a small display.

We’ re glad to work with O’Reilly and we’re happy to see ePub handles images and complicated materials well. O’Reilly’s books are well-known for their high quality, for prices ranging from $2.99 to $4.99, it’s definitely a great deal.

Grab some and read them on the go! Happy reading!

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New features available on Aldiko

September 19th, 2009

We have rolled out three updates (version 1.1.1, 1.1.2 and 1.1.3) for both Aldiko Book Reader Premium and Aldiko Book Reader Applications over the last few weeks. New features in the updates include:

Full Text Search

This allows you to search words globally within a book.

Dictionary Lookup

With the dictionary feature, you can look up a word in dictionary, on Wikipedia or Google.

If your device has a keyboard, you can even start typing while reading a book to bring up the dictionary dialog automatically.

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Option to Lock Display Orientation

With the lock display orientation feature, you can lock the display in either portrait or landscape view.

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Option to Set Text Alignment

Now you can set your text alignment to left, justify or right.

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Go To

This allows you to quickly access any position within a book. It’s very useful when your book has no table of content.

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Option to Enable/Disable CSS Style Sheet

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As always, please feel free to provide feedback to help make Aldiko better.

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Aldiko now free and available anywhere – New distribution channel added

September 8th, 2009

Since Aldiko was released, we have received a lot of feedback from engaged users telling us how much they like Aldiko and what improvements they would like to see. We want to thank you all for your feedback. It is your appreciation which motivates us to deliver as high quality a product as we can.

However, a point that was raised on repeated occasions was that a lot of people who had interest in the app were unable to get their hands on it, simply because they are located in a country where the Android Market does not yet support paid applications. In order to make it as widely available as possible, we’re excited to announce that we have put Aldiko for free on the Android Market.

The paid version is still available as a “Premium” package, which we encourage you to get if you like Aldiko and would like to support us.

Moreover, we have also listed the application on SlideMe, thus making Aldiko available anywhere in the world (including countries where the Android Market is not currently supported). The Aldiko package can be directly downloaded from SlideMe’s website from your computer, or directly installed to your phone through the SAM application.

Thanks for your interest and support! Enjoy!

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New Catalog and New Feature

August 19th, 2009

Over the past 2 months, we’ve received a lot of requests for more content and more catalogs. Today we are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with Smashwords to bring their large catalog of free and paid content to Aldiko. Once you get the update, go to the ‘Download Books’ section and you’ll be able to browse Smashwords’ extensive selection of exciting fiction and non-fiction works from independent publishers and self-published authors.

Along with the new catalog, we also added a couple of new features over the past few weeks:

- Change the cover art of a book (long press the book in the bookshelf view to bring up the context menu)

- Open images in a separate viewer upon long press

- Backward/forward functions allow you to go back to where you were before clicking a link to a different section of the book

- Conveniently open links with a short tap gesture

- Options to turn pages with volume keys

We will continue to add more catalogs and features. If there is something that you’d like to see, we would love to know. Tell us here or send an email to feedbacks@aldiko.com.

Happy Reading!

About Smashwords, Inc.:

Smashwords is a publisher and distributor of multi-format ebooks. Their philosophy is to make it easy for anyone, anywhere in the world, to publish ebooks. Authors and publishers simply upload their book as a Microsoft Word file and Smashwords will instantly convert it into nine DRM-free ebook formats, ready for immediate sampling and sale online to a worldwide audience. Since Smasword’s launch 15 months ago, there are now over 2,400 multi-format ebooks published. For more information, please visit www.smashwords.com.

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