Thu August 08 2013
NOOK HD+ 16GB for $120, refurbished |
05:21 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No... Just found this sweet deal via Android Police:
Link to eBay: here Edit: Alternatively, as MobileReader tubemonkey pointed out, you could also try to take advantage of a 20% off in-store only coupon that would bring the price down to $119 (new unit!). Hurry though, the offer is only good till August 10. |
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iBooks app in latest OS X Mavericks developer preview! |
05:10 AM by Jessica Lares in E-Book Readers | Apple Devices Finally! Downloading now. Will let you know how I like it. |
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Spoiled Kindle experience: too much sloppy content |
04:48 AM by TadW in E-Book General | News Stephen Curry @ The Guardian writes:
My experience has been similar, unfortunately. Who do you think is responsible? If it is the publishers, as the article suggests, then why do they care less about typographical and formatting errors than they did before? [image by liz west via Flickr] |
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Publishers object to DOJ proposal; it would punish them rather than Apple |
04:34 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | General Discussions It's not that we're surprised after hearing of the DOJ's proposed order to prevent Apple from entering new e-book distribution contracts for five years, that publishers are anything but unhappy about the plans. In a court filing (provided by Cnet) yesterday afternoon, HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Holtzbrinck, and Penguin Random House argue that the proposal would effectively eliminate the use of the "agency model" for distributing and selling e-books.
This would, according to the publishers, go directly against what has been agreed on before in separate settlements with the U.S. ahead of the trial.
On the other hand, while it's true that the proposed order would restrict publishers from entering into agency agreements with Apple, it would not prevent them from entering into agreements with any other party, as agreed on in the previous settlements. [via Digital Reader] |
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Wed August 07 2013
Love Facebook and Mobileread? We need you! |
03:10 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements Listen up, folks. We need your help. As our Facebook presence has increased, so has the need to interact with Facebook members who visit us on Facebook. As a result we're now looking for a long time member who's familiar with us and who would be willing to field questions and respond to Facebook feedback on our behalf, to join the MobileRead Team. If your fingers itch to update your Facebook status message every few minutes and if you refresh your Facebook page faster than light to see the responses from your friends, then we'd love to hear from you. Please drop us a line by sending an e-mail to alexander@mobileread.com, or by reporting this post and telling us why you'd like to be the Facebook Face of MobileRead. |
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Adobe Reader 11 for iOS lets you convert PDFs, if you pay for it |
01:50 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book Readers | Apple Devices If you're an avid users of Adobe's Creative Suite, you're probably already familiar with their recent shift to making software available on a subscription basis. Love it or hate it, it seems the dawn of software as a subscription is now upon us. With the release of the Adobe Reader 11 update, iPad and iPhone users can now take advantage of Adobe's CreatePDF and ExportPDF cloud services - but only after making the required in-app purchase. So what's new in 11?
CreatePDF is priced at $19.99 per year, while ExportPDF (which includes CreatePDF) is priced at $89.99 per year. Well... nobody said these services would come cheap. [via Engadget] |
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OverDrive Media Console with new Gui and Bookmark Sync |
07:29 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News OverDrive Media Console is a popular app for on-the-go access to e-books and audiobooks from public an college libraries. According to LibraryJournal, a redesigned version of the app will be released for iOS and Android devices on August 20th. Changes in 3.0 include: a redesigned user interface, the ability to sync bookmarks across multiple devices, variable speed playback for audiobooks. Link to the article: here Below is a video showing OverDrive Media Console 3.0 in action. Related: Overdrive Redesign |
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Amazon could be working on next-gen e-paper display |
05:32 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News E-Paper is great but there is still plenty of room for improvements. Think of a better, more paperlike contrast, faster response times, the introduction of color without sacrifice in display resolution, just to name a few. Christopher Mims of Quartz muses that following the acquisition of Liquavista, Amazon could be working on a new display technology "with unique properties—like long battery life and amenability to being used outdoors and in natural light - which not even Apple and Samsung could match".
Link to the article: here |
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