Tue June 16 2015
Amazon Faces EU Antitrust Probe Into E-Books Contracts |
05:58 AM by Dopedangel in E-Book General | News http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...ooks-contracts Now Amazon seems to be under the fire of EU. |
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US Copyright Office report on Orphan Works & Mass Digitization |
05:58 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News Thought this might be of interest to some folks. The US Copyright Office has just published a 234 page report on Orphan Works & Mass Digitization. PDF link |
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Mon June 08 2015
PW: Trade book sales down across the board |
09:28 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News From Publisher's weekly:
AAP numbers are normally year to year dollars, not unit sales. It lets them report a gain *somewhere*. Gory details at the source. |
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Sat May 30 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/23 - 05/30 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Been away? Fear not! Here is your chance to check out what appeared on our frontpage this week: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Thu May 28 2015
Interesting Kindle Upgrade |
03:39 AM by Waylander in E-Book General | News Saw this in my daily The Passive Voice email: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046678/...at-doesnt-suck Apparently, the update is being rolled out to the actual ereaders later in the summer, so no specific date, but it is coming soon. What does anyone else think? |
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Baen can no longer provide automatic delivery to Kindle by email. |
03:34 AM by gbm in E-Book General | News This was posted on Baen's Bar today.
They have updated the ereader instructions page:
Spoiler:
bernie |
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Wed May 27 2015
June 2015 Book Club Vote |
12:15 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs June 2015 MobileRead Book Club Vote Help us choose a book as the June 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 June 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Spoiler:
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Goodreads | Amazon.com / Kobo CA / Google Play / Overdrive Spoiler:
• A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Goodreads | Amazon AU / Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible / Kobo Spoiler:
• Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive Audio / Overdrive eBook / Waterstones UK Spoiler:
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman Goodreads | Amazon US/ MP3 / WorldCat Spoiler:
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Sat May 23 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/16 - 05/23 |
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 |