The technology to read digital versions of magazines on PCs has been there for a long time. But it didn’t quite become a popular until the advent of handheld devices. Thanks to devices like Ipad, Kindle and Android, digital magazines are becoming popular again.

Yes, there is an app for it

DiziMags.com is a newly launched sites which features over 3,000 premier magazine titles available currently in the Zinio Shop. Issues are , available as subscriptions or single issues. All the content and quality of print with added convenience and interactive features available for the Web.

You Don’t Need a Magazine Rack

Carry your magazine with you anywhere on iPads, iPhones, Android and other mobile devices

Its Green Too

They didn’t cut down a tree to to print the magazine. In addition to the pristine print quality, the digital format offers interactive features like video, interactive graphics, sound and animation right in a magazine’s pages, plus options to share and search within articles.

We are happy to launch our sister site DecibelBooks.com to help our UK based audio book lovers. Currently there are over 50,000 audio books to browse from. Readers can download a free audiobook from the Audible UK and try their service free for 14 days.

Hope our UK audiobook listeners will find the site helpful.

Lisbeth Salander – the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels – lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders.

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

Rusty is the prime suspect. Reunited with his charismatic lawyer Sandy Stern, he will do anything to convince his beloved son, Nat, of his innocence. But what is he hiding?

Audible.com now has an app (still in beta) to play and listen to audible.com audio books on android phones. The process is simple enough. Purchase an audio book first from the audible website. Then using the app on your android phone sign in to audible.com. The audio book will show up in your list of books. Download the audio book and listen.

The app can be downloaded here.

Audible.com has a collection of 75,000 audio books that can be downloaded and played on various devices including iPods.

You can download an audio book free and try it for 14 days
OR
Sign up with a membership plan which  costs $7.49/mo for the 1st 3 months and $14.99/mo afterward. With the membership you get one credit/audiobook every month.

Kobo is a global eBook retailer backed by Indigo Books & Music (Canada), Borders (US). We believe consumers should be able to read any book, anytime, anywhere, and on the device of their choice.

Kobo offers a global e-reading service for smartphones, desktops, e-readers and any other device consumers use for reading. Kobo’s vision is to deliver any book on any device.

A Kobo eBook can be read on smart phones like Blackberry, iPhone, Android, palm pre; e-reading devices or on computers. Kobo also offer free smart phone ebook reading applications.

Kobo features over 2 million ebooks, including classics and bestsellers. With strategic global partners including Borders (US), Indigo (CA), Redgroup (AU), and Cheung Kong Group (EU/APAC). Kobo already has users in over 200 countries.

Free eBooks at Kobo: You’ll be able to download a free book from a list of 223 eBooks at Kobo. This will be a great way to get a feel for the program, and re-discovery the best things about books.

Click here to Go to Kobo.

There are two notable efforts to make available numerous copyright free public domain books in audio format. There is no copyright on these books so the material is free to own, use and distribute.

Project Gutenberg offers a wide selection computer generated audio books. Which means the book is turned into audio by computers and not read by humans. Though this method helps the conversion process, from text to audio, much faster, there are some anomalies.  Project Gutenberg is working at resolving these anomalies.

Another big source of free public domain audio books is librivox.org. Audio books at  librivox are human read. Volunteer read and record books for free distribution. All books are public domain and so no copyright issues. They have a huge selects.In fact their catalogu is so big that its a daunting task to navigate and find the book of your choice. All their audio books are available in multiple formats like MP3 and ogg format. They can be played on most mp3 players including ipod and also can be played on a computer. Entire audio books can be downloaded in a single zip file or can be subscribed in iTunes for ipods.

Download an audio book for free as a free trial offer from Audible.com or sign up for the platinum membership and download and audio book for $7.49/Month for the first three months and $14.95 thereafter.

Audible.com features over 60,000 downloadable audio books.