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

We know, you're busy. You'd like nothing more than to keep up with the witty kids at MobileRead live and in real-time but, it's tough. We understand. Here is our weekly round-up:

E-Book General - News

• Project to Translate Classical Indian Literature

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• March 2015 Book Club Nominations

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• Guideline update: Firmware links

05:03 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

Occasionally users may post download links that don't point to the official vendor website. The firmware could be unofficial or custom-made. For example, if you are familiar with Android, you probably heard of the CyanogenMod distribution, which is a popular community firmware based on Google Android along with plentiful gee-whiz custom code. One issue with unofficial firmware is that it may contain proprietary software not licensed for free distribution. Another issue is that installing such a firmware would likely void the warranty of your device.

Our take on this onwards is that you can link to firmware downloads, but you should be aware of potential licensing issues. We are not responsible for the content on any linked websites which are not under our control, nor should the inclusion of an external link be understood as an endorsement of that site. Last but not least remember that applying or using an unofficial firmware could void your warranty, brick your device or cause unintended head turns at your next high-school reunion, so proceed with caution.

12:10 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

MobileRead Book Club March 2015 Nominations

Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for March, 2015.

The nominations will run through midnight EST February 28 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:

Travel/Adventure

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.

The nominations for March are now closed.

Official choices with three nominations each:

(1) West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Amazon US / Audible / Kobo

(2) The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
No links provided.

(3) Timeline by Michael Crichton
Goodreads | Amazon US / Google Play / Kobo CA / Overdrive US / Overdrive

(4) Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Kobo

(5) A Lady Cyclist's Guide To Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
Amazon US

(6) South by Ernest Shackleton
Goodreads | Amazon US / Kobo US

(7) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Albert Lansing
Amazon US / Kobo

(8) The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
[I]The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / Kindle

05:17 AM by Hamlet53 in E-Book General | News

I found this broadcast last week on the On Point NPR show interesting. I do not know a whole lot about classical Indian literature and have only read a couple of translations into English. I'm glad to hear of this project to produce many more translations.

A Loeb Library For Indian Literature

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

• Scribd teams up with Marvel
• Kindle Unlimited launched in Canada and Mexico

10:42 AM by JoHunt in E-Book General | News

Amazon have just launched Kindle Unlimited in their Canadian store:

"Enjoy unlimited reading from over 750,000 titles on any device for just CDN$ 9.99 a month."

That's just US$8 according to current rate of exchange.

Kindle Unlimited at Amazon Canada

Kindle Unlimited also launched in Mexico today for 129 pesos (US$8.60) a month.

Kindle Unlimited at Amazon Mexico

Venture Beat article

10:17 AM by ottdmk in E-Book General | News

Caught this on the Newsarama site.

Looking through the article it sounds like Marvel will be making trade paperbacks available, as opposed to single issues of its comics.

The interesting thing to me is that Marvel already has its own subscription service, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited. I wonder if Marvel is looking to move out of that business space?

06:38 AM by drjenkins in E-Book General | News

I saw this at Cory Doctorow's fabulous site BoingBoing.

Kickstarting a new life for out-of-print sf classics
http://boingboing.net/2015/02/05/kic...fe-for-ou.html

Singularity is looking to, once again, rescue out-of-print SF and make them available as free or low cost e-books.

They have met their goal of $15,000, but it's not too late to make a pledge.