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Apple has announced that the Australian iPad will go on sale in Australia on May 28 with the base model priced at $629. The international release of the iPad has been delayed due to heavy US demand. The Australian iPad will retail for following prices for Wi-Fi only models in Australia: 16GB – $629 32GB [...]

Australian iPad user have to wait a few more weeks to get our hands on the breakthrough new device from Apple but not so in the US where it launched this week. Most of the main technology bloggers and journalists have now got their first iPads and are quickly putting out their initial reviews. Here [...]

Amazon have just released the Kindle for iPad application into the Apps Store. The Kindle for iPad application features a new user interface tailored to the look and feel of iPad. The app lets users select from over 450,000 books from the Kindle Store on iPad and features Amazon Whispersync technology that saves and synchronizes [...]

Amazon.com, recently  announced that the Kindle for Mac application is available for free download. The announcement follows on from the Kindle for PC and Kindle from Blackberry announcements that now have the Kindle on every major computer and smartphone handset. Kindle for Mac is missing a number of features such as including full text search [...]

eBookGuide.com.au has a brand new Apple iPad to win just by signing up to our FREE newsletter. To signup, simply complete the entry form in the top right of the page. The lucky winner will be drawn on June 30, 2010. Make sure you tell your friends about this competition!

Congratulations to Ian Teoh from Melbourne for being the lucky winner of our Australian Kindle giveaway that ended on February 28. He was quoted as saying “Wow, fantastic. Thanks so much” Your Australian Kindle is on the way from Amazon.com Didn’t win? We have an Australian Apple iPad to giveaway on June 30 so as [...]

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Amazon has released the Kindle for Blackberry application. It complements the list of Kindle applications available for non Kindle users with only Mac and iPad left to release. Their is a Kindle application now for  iPhone, iPod touch, PC, BlackBerry and due shortly are the Mac and iPad Kindle applications. Kindle for BlackBerry lets customers bring their Kindle [...]

Now that you have your Kindle, you’ll want to fill it up with cheap or free books from the Kindle store. eBookGuide.com.au has a special link that not only finds the free ebooks for your Australian Kinde, but also all the cheap books available as well. What are waiting for? Browse the cheap and free [...]

Amazon announced last week that Kindle authors and publishers can lock in 70% of the sale price of a ebooks published through the Amazon Digital Text Publishing system. The announcement is for US based authors and publishers only and begins on June 30 2010. The fine print is The 70% does not include e-delivery costs [...]