Ebooktravelguides.com, the website that lightens your luggage, launches a Simple Guide to buying ebooks.

(TRAVPR.COM) UNITED KINGDOM - 12th August, 2010 - EBOOKTRAVELGUIDES.COM: With more platforms than Grand Central Station, the ebook industry hasn’t exactly made buying ebooks a smooth process. Managing Director of ebooktravelguides.com, Simon Raven, hopes to change this. “We’re in the business of making life easier for people. Our Simple Guide to understanding ebooks hopes to do this.”

Posting a no-nonsense Q&A on ebooktravelguides.com Simon hopes to prompt feedback from the confused ebook buyer out there, and develop the ultimate simple guide to ebook buying. People don’t have time to be trawling the net to find compatible ebooks to use with their ebook reader.”

Launching ebooktravelguides.com in 2009, twin brother and road trip travel writers, Simon Raven and Chris Raven, were surprised how confused people were with the ebook technology they had purchased and the total lack of information available.

“We found people were buying an ebook reader and only discovering weeks later that their technology could only read ebooks bought from that one specific book retailer.”

Thankfully the introduction of new technology such as the iPad and Android technology for mobile phones has started to open things up. You can now download Apps from the major retailers that will allow you to read ebooks from the major stores, in particular Barnes & Noble and Amazon on multiple reading devices including, PC and laptops, Mac, Blackberries, iPhones, iPad, and Smartphones.

So what’s the future of ebook readers? “We’re hoping to see the introduction of a universal e-format for all ebooks,” Said Simon. “In the mean time, we’re hoping that by producing simple format web sites, with clear links and tables to exactly what you’re looking for will help ease the pain.”

To help simplify ebook buying, check out ‘The Simple Guide’ and lighten your luggage:

www.ebooktravelguides.com/news/simple-guide/

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