Tue May 19 2015
Google announces Literata, its new e-book typeface |
04:47 AM by Dopedangel in E-Book General | News Google has announced a new typeface for Google Books: Literata. Replacing Droid Serif as the default typeface for e-books via Google Books, Google says Literata is “perfect for long reads on all devices”. Created in conjunction with TypeFace, Google began work on Literata in April 2014. The goal was a “new book typeface was needed that would provide an outstanding reading experience on a whole range of devices and high resolution screens running different rendering technologies”. |
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Sat May 16 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/09 - 05/16 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Been so busy reading e-books that you haven't had time to keep up on the week's news? Here's some of what you've been missing: E-Book General - News
E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Fri May 15 2015
Vote for MobileRead's best fiction book of 1901-1910 |
09:16 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | Reading Recommendations The first voting thread for choosing the ten best fiction books of the 20th Century. This thread covers 1901-1910. VOTING IS NOW OPEN. Voting totals will be hidden until the poll ends on 15th June 2015(so that no-one is influenced by previously recorded votes), and voting will be anonymous. You are, of course, welcome to make your choice known during in the discussion thread associated with this poll. The nominations and nominators are:
All these books are in the USA public domain. For books in the European public domain, links are given to copies in our library, or elsewhere. Otherwise a link is given to the Project Gutenberg copy and to the title at Amazon UK. Ideally, nominators should now post about their nominated book, and everyone is welcome to discuss the relative merits of the nominations |
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Thu May 14 2015
Southwest to Offer Kobo E-books Inflight |
04:54 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News Southwest to Offer Kobo E-books Inflight
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Simon & Schuster Tries Geo-Targeting |
04:54 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News S&S Tries Geo-Targeting in New Marketing Outreach
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...erability.html
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Hoopla now supports e-book lending for libraries |
04:53 AM by jhowell in E-Book General | News Received an email today stating that e-book lending now available from Hoopla Digital
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Sat May 09 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/02 - 05/09 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Been so busy reading e-books that you haven't had time to keep up on the week's news? Here's some of what you've been missing: E-Book General - News |
Fri May 08 2015
EU plans to allow lower VAT rate on ebooks |
04:25 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News According to a report at Ink, Bits & Pixels, The EU Commission (having just spent the past four years suing France and Luxembourg for reducing the rate of VAT they charge on ebooks) plan to introduce changes to the VAT rules to allow countries to charge their lower rate of VAT on ebooks! Unfortunately, it seems likely that it'll be some years before the rule changes actually get implemented. |
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