ScrollMotion bringing SmashWords eBooks to App Catalog 11
While mostly an iOS App Development platform, ScrollMotion has reached an agreement with SmashWords, the Indie eBook distributor, to bring their 33,000 titles to not just iOS, but also webOS devices (and others, no doubt). The app will be coming sometime in the next several months (mid-May, at earliest) and will be compatible with both smartphones and tablets on most major platforms, so if you're a webOS user that loves Indie books, you have something nice to look forward to.
You may know SmashWords as a retail partner for the current eBook App in the catalog, Kobo Books, which currently dominates eBook reading along with the spam-books that show up in droves every week. In the last 30 days alone, SmashWords has added nearly 5000 titles to their collection, and that number is expected to grow substantially over the next year. We aren't sure what the apps will look like or when they'll be released, exactly. But when we find out we'll let you know.
The eBook reader inside of us is excited for an alternative to the spam-like App Book Shop and others, but moreso because it brings us some unique Indie authors to our devices. Having a few choices is always a good thing in our books.
Source: SmashWords PR via: AppModo



























11 Comments
I'll stick to pReader.
you say the app will be coming in several months, but say mid-May at earliest. please clarify.
It's planned for release in the next several months, and could be released as early as this month, which is within the next several months.
I guess it will come out a bit earlier on the Touchpad and a bit later for the phones ;)
That's a very Palm-like way of playing with dates...
I agree with Don Vito Corleone.
This is the ToucHPad effect...
Best Regards... B)
I guess it's not so bad that HP is focusing on the Touchpad after all. If this type of thing continues happening because of the Touchpad, then HP has a lot of time to produce a good smartphone.
Woo! Hopefully this means my free comedy sci-fi book The Garden Wall (by Lichfield Dean) will be available on webOS devices! Great news. Even more so when you consider that the spaceship in it is operated via a version of webOS - well, that was the intention anyway, although it wasn't explicitly stated.
This could be a very interesting development. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
Kobo doesn't produce the spam ebooks, I'm pretty sure. The books aren't separate apps.
maybe this app will work on WebOS 2.x? Kobo is busted, and shows no sign of ever being updated.