bol-app-galaxy.jpgAccording to ebookmagazine, bol.com, an online book retailer, has launched new ereader and shopping apps on the iOS and Android platform. Both are aimed at Dutch readers.

The Android app will come preloaded on all Galaxy Tablets and smartphones bol sells and the iOS app will be available on the iTunes store.

txtr CEO Christophe Maire said the Dutch eBook market “is ahead of most other European countries” with more 1500 eBooks are downloaded per day.

As with txtr’s own-label offering, the app allows readers to buy new titles and ‘side load’ existing ePub titles protected by Adobe’s DRM – the most common file/DRM combination for ebooks within Europe.

Maire said the deal would “enable bol.com to offer consumers easy mobile access to their eBook offering of 5.000 Dutch and 130.000 English titles.”

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