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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Sun September 20 2015
October 2015 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 October, 2015. The nominations will run through midnight EST September 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 October is: The Patricia Clark Memorial Library (The MobileRead 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? 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) The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith Spoiler:
(2) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Spoiler:
(3) Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Spoiler:
(4) The Virginian by Owen Wister Spoiler:
(5) The Haunted House and Other Horror Stories by Charles Dickens Spoiler:
(6) Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson Spoiler:
(7) Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey Spoiler:
(8) Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. |
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Sat September 19 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 09/12 - 09/19 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review It's time again for our roundup on all the stuff we posted on our frontpage this past week. E-Book General - News Miscellaneous - Announcements |
Thu September 17 2015
Welcome to our newest moderators |
08:31 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements Ladies and gentlemen from far and near, I'm a little late with the announcement, for which I apologize. It's my greatest pleasure to announce that Blossom, DiapDealer and issybird have joined the ranks of moderators, aka "greenies"! We hope you are as pleased as we are to see the greening of these members, as we feel they are all excellent choices. So get your congratulations in here before you can start blaming them for anything that goes wrong around here. WELCOME! |
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Amazon Announces New Fire Tablets & Fire TV |
01:57 PM by tubemonkey in E-Book General | News Amazon just announced their new fall lineup of the Fire Tablets and Fire TV
New Fire Devices --> Key Specs --> Release Date
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Sat September 12 2015
New Kindle said to be due end September |
03:28 PM by Gazella in E-Book General | News An Amazon rep. has confirmed that a new Kindle model will be announced at the end of this month (final week of September).
But we should see a new Voyage and Paperwhite in November.] |
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Sat September 05 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 08/29 - 09/05 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Gosh we've talked a lot this week. Here's your weekly round up of MobileRead's events. E-Book Readers - Barnes & Noble NOOK |