Sat October 10 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 10/03 - 10/10 |
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 |
Tue October 06 2015
Waterstones is removing Kindles from stores |
06:14 AM by rjcroy in E-Book General | News This is interesting. It follows another recent new report that paper book sales had increased by nearly 5% in the last year. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/wa...-stores-313827 "“Sales of Kindles continue to be pitiful so we are taking the display space back in more and more shops...We’re not seeing a great deal of people who are buying an e-reader for the first time now,” he said. “People are buying e-reader replacements, but that’s it.” I have been surprised by how few people around me have bought e-readers. It doesn't look like it will get beyond niche in the near future. |
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Sat October 03 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 09/26 - 10/03 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Welcome to another digest entry of MobileRead, where we transform the profound into the bite-sized. E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Fri October 02 2015
October 2015 Special Run-Off Vote |
12:23 PM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs October 2015 Mobile Read Book Club Special Run-Off Vote Since this month's vote resulted in a tie, we are having a Special Run-Off Vote between the two leading candidates. I will not vote in this poll unless my vote is needed to break a tie. This poll will be open for 3 days, and all MobileRead members are invited to participate. This is a visible, multiple-choice poll. We will start the discussion thread for this book on October 20th. Please select from the following two Choices: • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Spoiler:
• The Virginian by Owen Wister Spoiler:
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Wed September 30 2015
B&N is Teasing the Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6 as the Next Nook Tablet |
10:04 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News If the details B&N posted to their developer pages are correct, the next tablet to bear the Nook brand could be the Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6. With specs on par with the Fire HD 10, this is much cheaper tablet than the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook and will likely cost a lot less. The Galaxy Tab E 9.6 has a screen resolution of 800 x 1,280. The model currently being sold by Verizon runs Android 5.1.1 on a 1.3 GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7730SE CPU with 1.5GB of RAM, 16GB of storage (plus 128GB microSD card support), and two cameras (2MP and 5MP). If this is the next Nook device, it will be bigger than the Tab S2 Nook, but not nearly as good. It will also be a lot cheaper. The Verizon model has 4G and costs $329. The B&N model, should it exist, will likely cost in the range of $249 to $279. |
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Sun September 27 2015
October 2015 Book Club Vote |
12:02 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs October 2015 MobileRead Book Club Vote Help us choose a book as the October 2015 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is You may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. We will start the discussion thread for this book on October 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith Spoiler:
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Spoiler:
• Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Spoiler:
• The Virginian by Owen Wister Spoiler:
• The Haunted House and Other Horror Stories by Charles Dickens Spoiler:
• Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson Spoiler:
• Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey Spoiler:
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Spoiler:
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Sat September 26 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 09/19 - 09/26 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Here are the highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Mon September 21 2015
Oyster shutters its ebook service |
08:04 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News Oyster announced late Monday afternoon that it was shutting down its ebook service. Rumors are circulating that the company has been sold, but all we know at this time is that Oyster will be:
Not surprised. Oyster was the smaller than Scribd or KU, and after Scribd faced a couple setbacks this summer, it was obvious that Oyster would soon have problems as well. The only remaining question is whether someone bought Oyster, and what is going to happen to the tech. Would anyone care to guess? |
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