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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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Details of new updates

July 19th, 2009

Over the past few weeks, we have been quietly releasing updates and incrementally improving the application based on user feedback. Here are some of the main improvements:

- Keep the display from going to sleep while reading.
- Option to turn pages back/forward using the volume up/down keys. This can be toggled on or off in the settings page.
- Fixed the issue where cover images would sometime show up in the phone’s picture gallery.
- Reduced application size.
- etc.

For more details, please visit http://www.aldiko.com/changelog.txt

We thank for all the feedback given to us!

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Import your own EPUB books to Aldiko

June 9th, 2009

A heavily requested feature since last week is the ability to import EPUB files into your Aldiko bookshelf. We are excited to let you know that we pushed an update this morning that will enable you to do just that. Just copy your EPUB files into your SD card (in the eBooks/import/ folder), select the ‘Import’ option on the app’s home screen and it will automatically scan and import your books.

Another new feature is the ability to download EPUB books directly from the Browser. Click on any EPUB link on any webpage and you should be presented with an option to directly download the book to your Aldiko bookshelf.

We are grateful for all feedbacks that users gave to us. Please continue to send us feedbacks and help us spread the word.

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Aldiko now available on the Android Market!

June 2nd, 2009

We are excited to announce today the release of Aldiko, our ebook reading application for Android smartphones. Aldiko enables you to very conveniently download from a vast collection of books and read them right on your phone.

Aldiko supports the EPUB industry standard format for reflowable electronic books and lets you fully customize your reading experience (display brightness, font and background color, font size and type, margin, etc.).

We have partnered with Feedbooks to provide seamless access to their huge selection of free public domain books. Aldiko also implements the emerging OPDS standard for content distribution, which will enable us to add even more content in the future.

Check out the app today on the Android market! We’re looking forward to your feedbacks!

About Feedbooks

Feedbooks is a Paris-based start-up specialized in digital publishing & distribution. Its mission is to create high-quality e-books with tools that anyone can use, integration of their publishing technology into any platform & direct distribution to mobile devices. For more information, please visit http://www.feedbooks.com

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