04:20 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News

I suppose in an effort to compete with Amazon's $49.99 7" Fire B&N has announced a new low cost 7" Nook tablet.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nook...eId=L000022784

NOOK Tablet 7"
by Barnes & Noble

• Read forever®, for less
• 7" IPS display optimized for reading
• Full access to Android apps in the Google Play™ Store
• More than a million books priced under $4.99
• Discovery delivered daily with B&N Readouts™

1024 x 600 Pixel Resolution --- 171 ppi

8GB onboard with microSD slot

Available for Pre-Order. This item will be available on November 25, 2016

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

In case you've missed any MobileRead news from this week, here is our usual roundup:

E-Book General - News

• Kindle Unlimited for Australia
• EU Court of Justice rules libraries can lend e-books

03:03 AM by jhowell in E-Book General | News

From Ars Technica UK:

Public libraries can lend out electronic books, the European Union's highest court has ruled.

The judgment confirms the opinion of Maciej Szpunar, advocate general to the the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), who said back in June that lending out e-books should be permitted in the 28-member-state bloc provided authors are fairly compensated in the same way as for physical books.

Press release on the ruling.

08:35 AM by cadele in E-Book General | News

Amazon has finally made KU available in Australia. From Gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/11/am...-in-australia/

FAQs on Amazon Australia site https://www.amazon.com.au/b?node=4483857051

And I see that it is for New Zealand also.

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

Missed some of our big stories this week? Time to catch up:

E-Book General - News

• Scribd adds magazines
• 10.3-inch Boyue T103

E-Book Software - Calibre

• It is calibre's 10th birthday

06:53 AM by Dopedangel in E-Book General | News

For people interested in large eink readers and from the looks of it is based on android so more reading app choices

04:28 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News

Scribd has added magazines to their lineup. Pretty limited selection, but might be of interest to some folks.

We’re excited to announce that members can now read articles from their favorite magazines on Scribd!

In addition to access to the best books, audiobooks, documents, and more, your Scribd membership now includes unlimited access to Time, Money, Fortune, People, Bloomberg Businessweek, Entrepreneur, Foreign Policy, and New York Magazine. We plan to add new magazines to Scribd on a rolling basis, including issues from Newsweek and The Atlantic in the coming weeks.

Members will have the option to read articles from or full issues of their favorite magazines, browse trending articles and topics, or explore on their own by areas of interest. Even better, you can quickly and easily find books, audiobooks, or documents that are related to the topic of any article you read on Scribd.

“We’ve always envisioned Scribd to be the reading destination that connects readers to the best written work, and magazine articles have been one of our most requested features,” said Trip Adler, CEO of Scribd. “We’ve combined books, audiobooks, documents, and now articles, around areas of interest. With this content agnostic experience, our members are now free to skim what’s trending or dive deep into any subject.”

http://literally.scribd.com/home/201...rite-magazines

09:25 AM by Krittika Goyal in E-Book Software | Calibre

Happy birthday calibre.

Here is a link to the post from 10 years ago https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8360

Here is a video to celebrate calibre's 10th birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q95NfFKc0v8