Wed July 20 2016
August 2016 Book Club Nominations |
12:02 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for August, 2016. The nominations will run through midnight EST July 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. The book selection category for August is: Thriller, Suspense, & Crime. In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? How Does a Book Get Selected? How Many Nominations Can I Make? How Do I Nominate a Book? How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? When is the Poll? The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.
(1) All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda Spoiler:
(2) Carved in Bone (Body Farm Book 1) by Jefferson Bass Spoiler:
(3) The Boy In The Suitcase (Nina Borg #1) by Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis Spoiler:
(4) Fast One by Paul Cain Spoiler:
(5) Open Season by C.J. Box Spoiler:
(6) Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein Spoiler:
(7) The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth Spoiler:
(8) They Don't Dance Much by James Ross Spoiler:
Nominations are now closed. |
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Mon July 18 2016
Author Earnings Romance market analysis |
06:07 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News AUTHOR EARNING'S Data Guy just gave a presentation at the Romance Writers of America, detailing the state of the Romance book market in 2016: http://authorearnings.com/2016-rwa-pan-presentation/ The charts are downloadable and mostly self explanatory. Interesting reading for anybody curious about how the romance cake is baked. For everybody else, the juicy stuff lies in the general ebook market overview in the first few slides: http://authorearnings.com/wp-content...07/Slide08.png http://authorearnings.com/wp-content...07/Slide10.png http://authorearnings.com/wp-content...07/Slide12.png http://authorearnings.com/wp-content...07/Slide14.png Points that stand out: - Romance makes up 4.4% of the print book sales captured by Nielsen Bookscan and 45% of paid ebook sales at Amazon. Romance accounts for 235M paid ebook sales a year across Amazon, Apple, Nook, etc. Essentially, two thirds of the romance book market is invisibile to the publishing establishment because 89% of all romance books sold are in digital form. - More generally: Kindle ebook market share is up to 74%, Apple is running at 11%, Nook 5%, Kobo 3%, Google 2%, and Other 2%. (Back in 2010, when Agency first kicked in, Amazon stood at 54% and Nook at 26%, with Sony around 10%). Much more at the source, including the usual pretty pictures. One point to remember: Harlequin policy through the decades was to let most of the titles they published go out of print after a couple of years and, since they considered them "played out", would routinely revert rights upon request. That practice has, of course, ended. But in the years between 2007 and 2012 a whole lot of romance writers rescued a whole lot of titles from out-of-print, typically adding new covers and re-releasing them on KDP. That means they not only brought along the titles but also their "brands" and their readers. In short: to a very large extent, Indie ebooks becoming a mainstream business is due to romance readers. (With SF&F right behind.) |
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Sat July 16 2016
MobileRead Week in Review: 07/09 - 07/16 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Have something interesting to say about e-books or mobile computing? Join our forums and share your view on topics like the ones discussed at MobileRead this past week... E-Book General - News Miscellaneous - Announcements |
Network Maintenance July 20th, 4am ET |
02:32 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements Hi, Our datacenter will perform some maintenance on its optical network on July 20. The window is from 4am to 6am ET. During that time traffic will be temporarily re-routed which means you may experience brief periods of downtime or latency. Sorry about that! Alex |
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Mon July 11 2016
USA & Canada: Free ebook each month from Tor.com |
02:33 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No... If you live in USA or Canada, Tor.com have a great offer starting up - a free ebook every month if you sign up to their mailing list. See http://ebookclub.tor.com/ for full details. The first book on offer is The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. [Update: The first month's offer is now over. But you can still sign up to their mailing list to get next month's free ebook, although we won't know what that is until next month] |
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Sat July 09 2016
MobileRead Week in Review: 07/02 - 07/09 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week. E-Book Software - Calibre Companion |
Tue July 05 2016
Calibre Companion for iPhone has been started! |
08:31 PM by Steve_Haley in E-Book Software | Calibre Companion Hello everyone, I'd like to announce that Calibre Companion for iPhone has been started. It's been a long time coming! To reintroduce myself, I worked with Chaley on the original Android version a few years ago. We're still a way off from making a public iPhone version, but the community here has been so fantastic in helping us test that we'd like to ask again. Who would like to be an alpha tester? Obviously you'll need an iPhone or iPad. Update: we now have enough people for the initial test, thanks to everyone who volunteered. The plan would be to send a version out in about two weeks. It will contain the basic functions for CC: connecting 'as a wireless device', syncing books, sorting and the grouping drawer, and handing books over to a reader app. Testing the connecting is the main thing we'd like help with, as that took us quite a while to get right last time round. After that initial version, the timeline is a bit more vague. It took chaley and me a few months to get the original CC Android version ready. This time round will be a bit quicker, but it will still take at least a month. So please don't get too excited, even though we do realise you've waited a long time for this. (This time, it will be nice to skip some of the errors we made with the first version. For example, we originally thought people would only want to have 10 to 50 books on their devices at one time. That clearly turned out to be wrong as people now routinely have thousands of books!) Thanks, |
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Sat June 25 2016
MobileRead Week in Review: 06/18 - 06/25 |
06:00 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 E-Book General - Reading Recommendations E-Book Software - Marvin |