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title: SingTel Launches Singapore’s 1st E-Book Service
date: 2011-11-15 10:15:23
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2011/11/15/singtel-launches-singapores-1st-e-book-service/
author: Lester Chan
excerpt: "SingTel has launched Singapore's first e-book service, skoob, offering works by Singaporean writers, study guides, and school textbooks for local students. At launch it holds 39,000 local and international bestsellers for smartphones, tablets, and PCs, with payment in Singapore Dollars."
categories:
  - Press Release
tags:
  - Android
  - book
  - E-Book
  - iOS
  - service
  - Singapore
  - Singtel
---

The e-book service is known as skoob. It offer the works of Singapore writers, study guides and educational books for local primary and secondary school students.

[![Skoob on iPad (Bookshelf)](https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6238/6346340604_41eb4252f7_z.jpg)](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6238/6346340604_95869f4c12_o.png "Skoob on iPad (Bookshelf)")

At launch there are about 39,000 local and international bestsellers for smartphones, tablets and PCs. Payment is in Singapore Dollars (S$) and made via Singapore Credit Cards or if you are a SingTel customer, you can charged it to your monthly SingTel bill.

You can download books on up to five devices on one account. Skoob is available for free on Apple iTunes Store and Android Marketplace. You can also use any browser to view them online via skoob or load the e-books into [Adobe Digital Editions](https://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html).