Fri August 30 2013
Amazon Kindle, Bienvenido a Mexico! |
10:25 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News Clearly, Amazon wants to think global. Just when we learned about Amazon's plans to expand their Kindle operations to Russian, Indian and Chinese markets, the company announced this week the launch of its Mexico Kindle Store. Also, e-book fans in Mexico can now buy the Kindle and the Kindle Paperwhite locally at Gandhi for 1399 Mexican pesos ($105) and 2399 pesos (~$180) respectively.
Quite consequently the Kindle Direct Publishing platform is now available to Mexican authors and publishers as well.
[via Teleread] [image: arvind grover / flickr] |
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The Book Club's Anniversary is upon us! Has it really been FIVE years? |
04:51 AM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs I was having a look at some past selections on the list and happened to notice that this book club will be reaching its fifth anniversary in October! At first I thought it'd be November from the list, but then out of curiosity I went to find the oldest thread to have a look at where it all began and found that the book club was actually started in the beginning of October 2008 by the mysterious PsyDocJoanne (and pilotbob was also right there from the start), with the initial book given a month to read first so was considered the November selection. So congrats to the book club for chugging along for almost five years now and for those that've made it possible! I've certainly enjoyed it since I came on board here. We should celebrate with punch and pie. |
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NOOK for Android 3.4.1.20 out, adds accessibility feature |
04:23 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News While Barnes and Noble is still working on restoring investor confidence, its official Android app continues to evolve. The latest update brings the following changes:
You can download NOOK for Android for free via the Google Play store. |
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calibre V1.1 released, with plenty of bug fixes |
03:26 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News Hot on the heels of the 1.0 milestone release, calibre, our most popular e-book library software, is ready for another incremental update. Version 1.1 tidies up a whole bunch of stuff, including: New Features
Bug Fixes
New and improved news sources
Unsure how to use calibre? Check out the calibre forums where you're likely to find all the help you need. |
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Tue August 27 2013
B&N Retail CEO sells stock |
07:41 PM by GA Russell in E-Book Readers | Barnes & Noble NOOK Forgive me if there is already a thread on this, but I haven't found it. The chief executive of Barnes & Noble's retail division, Mitchell Klipper, has in the past few days sold two-thirds of his shares, raising $5.5 million. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97Q01D20130827 Related: B&N reports $87m loss for Q1 2014, NOOK business plunges 20% (image: Mike Kalasnik / Flickr) |
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Kobo revs up its line of e-readers, unveils Kobo Arc 10 HD tablet |
07:15 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News Hosting the "Beyond the Book" event in NYC today, Kobo just announced a whole bunch of new e-reading devices, including the Kobo Arc 10 HD - their first 10-inch tablet, and quite a beauty it is! To start with, below is a list of the new devices along with the specifications. Kobo Aura Specs:
Kobo Arc 7 Specs:
Kobo Arc 7 HD Specs:
Kobo Arc 10 HD Specs:
[via Engadget] |
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Aldiko Book Reader Premium V2.2.3 released (Android) |
06:36 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book Readers | Android Devices Aldiko has just issued an update for the premium edition of its popular Android e-book reader app. If you are looking for an interesting alternative to reading books in ePub or PDF format, you should definitely check this one out. Version 2.2.3 adds:
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How important is text-to-speech capability to you? |
05:41 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | General Discussions Something an e-book can do that a paper book cannot is turn the text into the spoken word. Of course I'm talking about the text-to-speech or read-out-loud feature. When Amazon introduced this kind of functionality with the Kindle 2 in 2009, much of the attention focused on a heated copyright controversy. As a consequence, Amazon modified their systems so that rightsholders could decide for themselves on a title by title basis whether they want text-to-speech enabled or not. Publishers who elect to disable text-to-speech could prevent the visually impaired from reading the books, in particular if the title is not available in the alternative audiobook form. Bufo Calvin of the I Love My Kindle blog penned an impassioned open letter in this regard:
As a matter of principle Bufo wouldn't recommend any e-book that has text-to-speech access disabled. What do you think? How important is text-to-speech to you? Since the technology is readily available, shouldn't everyone embrace it for the benefit of those who cannot consume content otherwise? Related: Amazon, Kobo and Sony request e-readers be exempt from accessibility laws |
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