IndieBound for iPhone 2.0
Posted by paige on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:07pm
eBooks, Indie Style
The IndieBound for iPhone app has received a major upgrade—now you can search for and purchase eBooks from independent booksellers across the United States. (eBooks download automatically into the free eReader app.) The Indie Bestsellers, the Indie Next List, and other book lists, now feature an "also available as an eBook" sticker where appropriate. And the Book Search has been upgraded with a choice of three searches: all results, books only, or ebooks only.
Now the main book search on IndieBound.org includes eBooks along with regular results, and a special list of Indie Next List Favorites in eBooks has been added.
Map it Out
The iPhone Indie Store Finder has received some upgrades, too. The iPhone app now includes integrated Google Maps, so you can view the stores close to you on a map without exiting the IndieBound app. Need directions? Just tap on a pin and you can go directly to the full Google Maps application for detailed directions by car, public transport, or on foot.
Know which store you're looking for, but just want to know where it is? Here's something of an "easter egg": you can also now search the Indie Store Finder map by store name. Either on IndieBound.org or in the iPhone app, just begin your search with "store:" and you'll receive up to 30 results that match your search. For example ("store:porto rico") will pull up three great sources for coffee in NYC! (Please note—this feature is still experimental.)
Get your Wish Lists Ready!
The holidays are fast approaching, and now is the time to make sure your IndieBound Wish List is up-to-date with the books you want for the holidays. Refresh yourself on what's possible with our video walkthrough. (iPhone users can also manage their Book Lists from the IndieBound for iPhone app.)
As always: stay tuned for much more. And get thee to thy local independent bookstore this holiday season!
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1Q84 Haruki Murakami Knopf |
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The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
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The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Knopf |
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Death Comes to Pemberley PD James Knopf |
Comments
Store Finder still freezes the app for international users
These are fantastic new features to an already great app. I live in Singapore, and naturally can't take advantage of the buying portion of the app, yet it is still very useful for book information and especially for the Lists. However, there is one problem that has not yet been addressed by this new version.
If I accidentally tap the "Store Finder" tab, or if I try to buy an eBook, the app freezes up because it can't find my current location; even if I select "Don't Allow," it still freezes. Which means I have to close the app, then open it and quickly tap one of the other tabs, hoping I am fast enough to switch screens.
And though I understand the need to buy the eBook from an individual store, why will the app not allow me to input the zip code of the store I'd like to buy it from?
Thanks,
Jason
Sorry Jason!!
Well, I've issued a kind of fix for this, by expanding the default radius for the search. Now, instead of freezes, you will be seeing your nearest indie bookstores...in Texas. Who knew Texas was so close to Singapore?
Actually, wouldn't California
Actually, wouldn't California be closer to Singapore? :)
So can the zip code be manually keyed in afterward?
zip code
yep, sure can.
Stanza
I would love it if I could choose to download ebooks into Stanza, my chosen ebook reader & manager, instead of eReader. As it is now, I have to buy online and import through Stanza for Mac or buy using the Stanza app. Any chance of this in the future?
stanza + indiebound
Unfortunately, the answer to that question depends on Stanza. We integrate with eReader because they offer a direct download path for Palm-formatted (.pdb) ebooks, which many indie bookstores sell on their websites. Stanza only offers this for unprotected ePub files...unfortunately, most ebooks for sale anywhere have some kind of copy protection mechanism.
Stanza did announce support for Adobe Digital Editions last year, which would have made this possible: http://www.lexcycle.com/press/adobe_DRM_support
...but this has not come to pass. FYI, Lexcycle (makers of Stanza) were acquired by a certain large online retailer last year.
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