02:10 AM by The_Enobee in E-Book Readers | Kobo Reader

This is a very interesting interview with Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn. He goes into a lot of detail around ereader use cases, development, integrations, and how Kobo values the consumer's ability to access their books and take them to other devices.

Tamblyn comes on about halfway through the video (the segments are well marked if you hover over the progress bar).

https://www.theverge.com/the-vergeca...ndle-vergecast

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Here are the highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

E-Book Readers - Amazon Kindle

• Amazon is removing Download & Transfer option

10:51 AM by geoffwood in E-Book Readers | Amazon Kindle

Went to download a book this morning and saw the following posted on the Download page:

Starting February 26, 2025, the “Download & Transfer via USB” option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the “Deliver or Remove from Device” option.

Makes me glad I bought an old Paperwhite so I can continue to download to that and directly copy the file from there and remove DRM

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

What was going on this week at MobileRead? Here's your chance to catch-up if you missed something!

E-Book General - News

• New Ebook retailer in USA

10:31 AM by Scoob in E-Book General | News

This might interest anyone that wants to support their local independent book store with an ebook purchase rather than any of the Big 3 or other ebook seller. Bookshop.org is launching ebooks. Here's the link if anyone wants to check them out https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

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E-Book General - News

• Amazon UK to stop selling Bloomsbury's books [Update: agreement reached]

02:27 AM by PeterT in E-Book General | News

From The Bookseller.com

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/a...omsburys-books

Amazon UK to stop selling Bloomsbury's books

Amazon UK has said that it will cease selling Bloomsbury’s print and e-books from midnight on 23rd January, saying negotiations between the giant retailer and the publisher had broken down.

A statement put out by the retailer explained that it had been unable to negotiate new terms with the publisher, despite extending the contract. Bloomsbury has yet to comment but the action could seriously wound the publicly-quoted pu]blisher, and re-open old sores between Amazon and trade publishers over trade terms.

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It is also a high risk strategy for Amazon, which will disenfranchise a number of Bloomsbury’s bestselling and high profile writers including Sarah J Maas, Gillian Anderson, and JK Rowling. The move extends to the publisher’s print books and Kindle titles, though Amazon stressed that customers could still buy print titles for third-party sellers off its site. Print books sold off its US site are not impacted.

Unfortunately, the latest extension expires at midnight on the 23rd January and after that time, Amazon will no longer be able to sell Bloomsbury print books in the UK, Europe, and Australia, or Bloomsbury Kindle books worldwide."

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02:24 PM by Markismus in E-Book General | News

Just got the mail that they're releasing the next eInk mobile phone:

• Only in B&W for now.
• No retail price given!Somewhere between $348 and $439.
• They have a voucher for effectively 20€ price decrease.
• The chip is MediaTek Dimensity 1080. (So not the expected 900)
• Bigme landing page for the HiBreak Pro.
• Front/rear camera is 5/20Mpixels.