Tue August 27 2013
Welcome Marvin e-book app to our forums! |
10:59 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements Heads up, everyone! It's with great pleasure that we announce our latest addition to the forums: Marvin. Marvin is a new sophisticated e-book reader app for iOS, boasting a staggering complement of built-in features that is guaranteed to induce uncontrollable drooling in every e-book junkie. We also like to officially welcome kguil, the developer of Marvin. kguil has certainly been busy over the past couple of months, and he is currently working on releasing an iPhone-supporting update that should make e-book reading with Marvin even more satisfying. Finally, a big thanks to GRiker who is not only responsible for bringing a native calibre driver to Marvin, but who also volunteered to help us moderate the new section. |
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O'Reilly: 50% off all eBooks & Videos (valid until Sep 10, 2013) |
06:53 AM by Cyberman tM in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...
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E-book customer sharing with anti-piracy group BREIN faces political backlash |
06:10 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News Remember the news that a number of Dutch-speaking e-book vendors had agreed to share information of customers, ehm, suspected pirates, with the anti-piracy watchdog BREIN? Well, it caused quite the backlash. The Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice is now faced with a handful of unpleasant questions regarding the legality of this agreement. As MobileReader Katsunami reports, one of the questions is (translated):
There is no denying that e-book piracy on the Internet is rampant; yet the question remains: Should private organizations such as BREIN, who have no legal or investigative authority, be allowed to access private customer information in their attempt to identify the people alleged to be offering pirated content? [image: Ruben Holthuijsen /Flickr] |
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Sat August 24 2013
September Book Club Vote |
05:19 PM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs September 2013 MobileRead Book Club Vote Help us choose a book as the September 2013 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is multiple-choice: you may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. We will start the discussion thread for this book on September 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Spoiler:
• Complete Works of Sappho (Delphi Ancient Classics) by Sappho of Lesbos (Author), Peter Russell (Translator) Spoiler:
• Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Spoiler:
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Spoiler:
• Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Spoiler:
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Spoiler:
• No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase Spoiler:
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Spoiler:
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck No links provided. Spoiler:
• Fade by Robert Cormier Spoiler:
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Fri August 23 2013
Refurbished Nook Glow Light $59.99 today (8/23) |
01:35 PM by Keslynn in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No... The post title pretty much says it all: refurbished Nook Glow Light for $59.99 today only. I have purchased from Tanga before and have no complaints. |
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire |
10:58 AM by HarryT in E-Book General | News A bit of a bombshell announced today, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who's been the visible "face" of Microsoft since the retirement of Bill Gates, announced that he is to retire within the next 12 months. As BBC News reports the story:
Full story at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23815563 Sounds as if the stock market at least thinks that this will be good for Microsoft, especially in the area of mobile devices. |
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Did a writer get bullied on Goodreads? (Salon Article) |
07:31 AM by taming in E-Book General | General Discussions Salon reports on the experience of a new author who got bad reviews and allegedly nasty comments on Goodreads about her book before it was released.
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