Shortcovers set to launch tonight

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By Scott MacDonald
February 25, 2009
1:42 PM

Filed under: Quillblog, book, Covers, e-book, Indigo, Kindle, Kindle 2, meth, Shortcovers, Tech

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While nerdy Americans await delivery of their Kindle 2s, nerdy Canadians can console themselves by trying Indigo’s new Shortcovers service. The ambitious e-book service – which allows users to download titles to their cellphones or personal computers for anywhere from $9.99 to $19.99 – launches tonight (or tomorrow, technically) at exactly one minute after midnight. You can see Q&Q Omni‘s previous coverage of Shortcovers here, you can get a sneak preview of what to expect here, and if you’re the early-adopter type you can go here tonight to actually download something.

David

Why would anyone pay almost $400 for a kindle? I paid as much for an ipod so why doesn’t itunes offer ebooks for ipods? Are they dropping the ball on this one?
Project Gutenburg offers free ipod text file versions of its online books. They work well on the 5G ipod with video
http://pavlidis.ca mhp

FYI, launch is at 6:00am Eastern. It was incorrectly reported to be at midnight.
angel guerra

Short covers? Not short on price. How about short changed? Another Heather’s pick to ignore.
Paul

angel guerra says: “Not short on price”

What’s a reasonable price? Anyone who can afford an iPhone can probably afford to pay 99¢ for a short story, or $10-$20 for a book. Anyhow, there’s lots of free stuff on the site.

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