06:11 AM by zebradude in E-Book General | News

Dear ZebraDude,

We are writing to announce an upcoming change to your NOOK® service and to explain what it means for you.

Effective March 15, 2016, NOOK will no longer offer third party applications (Apps) for sale from the NOOK Store™. All of your existing Apps previously purchased from the NOOK Store will remain in your NOOK Library™ and will continue to be accessible on compatible NOOK devices. This means that you will still be able to download and install previously purchased Apps from the NOOK Library on your device.

You will also continue to be able to discover, purchase, and use third party applications from the wide selection available at the Google Play store on your compatible NOOK device.

No action is necessary on your part, but should you have questions, please visit our FAQs page or contact us.

Please note that our standalone NOOK Reading Apps for Android and iOS are not affected by this change and will remain available on Google Play and iTunes respectively.

Of course, we will continue to offer our full service of books, magazines, and newspapers on both NOOK devices and our standalone Reading Apps, and look forward to bringing the best in digital reading to your NOOK experience.

Sincerely,

The NOOK Team

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06:10 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News

Just saw this in the Baen newsletter and thought it might be of interest to some.

ATTENTION: EBOOK RELEASE DATES ARE CHANGING

Dear Baen Readers,

I am writing to let you know that we are reconciling the release dates of ebooks and paper books. From the publication month of April 2016 onward, the release dates will be the same (that is, the ebooks will not be available two weeks earlier than the paper books).

We will not be changing the time the Monthly Bundles are initially offered for sale, we will continue to offer eARCs as usual, and all other policies regarding ebook bundles will remain in place. We will not be making the period you can buy Monthly Bundles shorter, but longer.

The April 2016 bundle contains the ebooks that will be available in print on April 5th. The final versions of these ebooks would have been scheduled to go live as ebooks on all retail venues on March 16, 2015, and will now be available in their entirety April 5, 2016. At that point, the Monthly Bundle will become unavailable for sale.

We will continue to publish two newsletters per month to help you keep track of our offerings, one highlighting the print books which will come out two weeks in advance of the release date, the other highlighting ebook and website offerings on (or very close to) the release date itself.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns, and our whole team will be happy to help.

Good reading!

Toni Weisskopf
Publisher, Baen Books

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

Another week, another steady stream of e-book goodness here on MobileRead. Our authentic roundup of what's been going on:

E-Book General - News

• The Nook UK store is closing down

04:12 AM by dfgdagsg in E-Book General | News

Barnes & Noble are closing down the Nook UK store, and transferring customers to the Sainsbury's Digital Entertainment on Demand store, along with as many of their nook UK ebooks as possible.

http://www.nook.com/gb/notice

Nook UK customers should receive an email before the end of March telling them of the steps to take to transfer their account successfully.

From 15th March nook UK will no longer sell ebooks in the UK.
It looks like the UK nook store will turn off at the end of May, 2016.

[original post]
Looks like Nook UK may be closing:

http://welcome.sainsburysentertainment.co.uk/

02:55 AM by Josieb1 in E-Book General | News

I'm not sure where this post should go so mods please feel free to move it. Samhain Publishing has announced it is winding down its operations and will be closing.

Apparently they will be having a 40% off sale on Monday.

http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2016/02/samhain-closing/

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

• Copyright Office asking for opinions on DRM, Defective By Design replies

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• March 2016 Book Club Nominations

12:04 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for March, 2016.

The nominations will run through midnight EST February 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days.

Book selection category for March is: Patricia Clarke Memorial Library.

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?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.

How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.

How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.

How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.

How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.

When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.

The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.

Official choices with three nominations each:

(X) The Crock of Gold by James Stephens
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle |LRF

(1) Starfish by Peter Watts
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

(2) Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

(3) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle | LRF

(4) The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

(5) A Drama in Muslin by George Moore
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

(6) Music of the Spheres by Wander Bonanno
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

The nominations are now closed.

09:35 AM by eschwartz in E-Book General | News

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/dm...ention-comment

[...] Finally, the folks in Washington are starting to listen. On December 29th, 2015, the United States Copyright Office put out a Notice and Request for Public Comment on the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA. Congress asked them to study the effects of the anti-circumvention rules and the process of granting exemptions. This call for comment presents us with a rare opportunity to have our voice heard when they are finally paying attention.

But if they just hear from us, they might go on ignoring our pleas. That is why we need your voice added to the chorus. We have prepared a comment to be submitted that we want you to co-sign. Each co-signer represents another person who is fed up and wants a return of control to the user. As we make clear in our comment, a band-aid won't fix the gaping wounds caused by this broken system: we have to stop this attack on user freedom once and for all by repealing the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions.

I can't say that I had even realized the Copyright Office was interested in caring. Possibly I wasn't the only one.

You can sign the petition here: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/c...id=439&reset=1