07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

If you've been too busy to check out MobileRead this week, check out our usual roundup:

E-Book General - News

• PocketBook Color PB633 Released

04:22 AM by Cyfranek in E-Book General | News

PocketBook Color E-Reader Announced
Specifications

PocketBook Color is the first ereader with E-Ink Kaleido screen from this manufacturer.
And it's the very first such device in Europe as well.

It's now appearing in various online stores in Europe at around €200.
One UK seller is advertising at £191.90, and expects stock by 3rd August.

• 6 inches screen with 4096 colours;
• dual core (2x1 GHz) processor;
• 1 GB RAM
• 16 GB of storage;
• microSD slot (up to 32GB);
• physical page turn buttons.
• WiFi and Bluetooth
• 160g

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Been away? Fear not! Here is your chance to check out what appeared on our frontpage this week:

E-Book General - News

• Kobo Nia Official Announcement

04:33 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

Kobo have announced their new entry-level ereader, the Kobo Nia.
Canadian Store / UK Store / US Store / French Store

It will be shipping from 21st July 2020, and Kobo are taking pre-orders now at
CA$129.99 / £89.99 / US$99.99 / €99.99

Screen: 6" 212 PPI Carta E Ink display, 1024 × 758 resolution
Weight: 172 g
Size: 112.4 x 159.3 x 9.2 mm
Storage: 8 GB
Front-light: ComfortLight, a one-colour light with adjustable brightness
Customizability: TypeGenius: 12 different fonts and over 50 font styles
Exclusive font weight and sharpness settings
Supported formats: 15 file formats supported natively (EPUB, EPUB3, FlePub, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR)
Connectivity: WiFi 802.11b/g/n and Micro USB
Battery Life: 1000 mAh, weeks of battery life*

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Just in case you've missed anything, here is the list of our frontpage news this week.

E-Book General - News

• Internet Archive sued by big publishers

06:42 AM by Arrghus in E-Book General | News

I couldn't see a thread about this. Please merge if I've missed one.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...nding-program/

"Despite the Open Library moniker, IA's actions grossly exceed legitimate library services, do violence to the Copyright Act, and constitute willful digital piracy on an industrial scale," write publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House in their complaint. The lawsuit was filed in New York federal court on Monday.

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

There's been a whole heck of a lot of stuff happening this week. Purvey the below for your pleasure.

E-Book General - News

• UK ebooks VAT 20%->0% 1st May 2020

01:00 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

Thanks to Kieran Seymour for the heads-up.

The UK Government has announced that the UK rate of VAT on ebooks will drop from 20% to 0% as from tomorrow, 1st May 2020. It had been going to change on 1st December 2020.

Here's the news on the government website

"The objective of this measure is to support literacy and reading in all its forms. Following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the need for people to stay at home, the government has decided to bring forward the implementation date to 1 May 2020 to reduce the cost of access to online publications during these challenging times when many people are confined to their homes and schools are closed."