11:21 AM by Dr. Drib in E-Book General | News

The great novelist and science fiction writer died Feb. 02.

Time to reacquaint myself with his work, which I read years ago. I remember reading The Space Machine: A Scientific Romance, and (I think) The Inverted World.

Time to visit some delusional alternate realities...

03:58 AM by Fbone in E-Book General | News

According to Duke University, these are a sample of books and plays that entered US public domain January 1st 2024. They also list some films and audio recordings too.

D.H Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (in the original German, Die Dreigroschenoper)

Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (in the original German, Im Westen nichts Neues)

W.E.B. Du Bois, Dark Princess

Claude McKay, Home to Harlem

A. A. Milne, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, House at Pooh Corner (introducing the Tigger character)

J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (because the play’s script was not “published” for copyright purposes until 1928; note that Barrie’s 1911 novel “Peter and Wendy” has been public domain since 1967)

Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

Evelyn Waugh,Decline and Fall

Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train

Wanda Gág, Millions of Cats (the oldest American picture book still in print)

Robert Frost, West-Running Brook

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, The Front Page

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/

04:27 AM by lumping-sugar66 in E-Book Readers | Kobo Reader

Hello folks,

There's this post over at Reddit by the "Kobo Research Team" asking for participation on a 10 minute survey to collect some data. I think our community may want to contribute to the survey.

The post is available here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/commen...bos_future_by/

(Note: I have no ties with Rakuten, I'm just sharing the post)

r/Kobo community, help shape Kobo's future by sharing your thoughts in our 10-15 minute survey!

Survey - Approved by Mods

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

If you missed our frontpage news at any point this week, here is the best way to catch up:

E-Book General - News

• Libraries: ‘We can’t do this on our own’
• RIP David Drake
• [New York Times] Will Books Survive Spotify?

03:20 PM by orebmur in E-Book General | News

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/o...algorithm.html

»Spotify may have made it easier than ever for us to listen to an enormous trove of music, but it extracted so much money in doing so that it impoverished musicians. Now the company is turning its attention to books with a new offering. It will do the same thing to writers, whose audiobooks Spotify has begun streaming in a new and more damaging way.«

[ without paywall: https://archive.is/UMNkC ]

01:14 PM by shalym in E-Book General | News

It looks like the State of CT may be getting ready to challenge publishers on the pricing scheme for e-books. They're going at it from both a consumer protection angle and from state contract law angle, since library budgets come from municipal budgets. Should be interesting, if anything comes of it.

http://digitaledition.courant.com/in...f-9e87748e5e1e

Shari

09:34 AM by gbm in E-Book General | News

https://david-drake.com/

I enjoyed his works a lot.

Just an announcement on his web-site.

bernie

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

We know, you're busy. You'd like nothing more than to keep up with the witty kids at MobileRead live and in real-time but, it's tough. We understand. Here is our weekly round-up:

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• The 2024 Annual Reading Challenge List Thread