Mon February 09 2015
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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 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. |
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Sat February 07 2015
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Previously at MobileRead: E-Book General - News
E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Wed February 04 2015
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08:07 AM by Lin2412 in E-Book General | News I'm definitely not Australian, but I'm glad of this news! [more love for ebooks in Australia article] eBook sales have flattened out or even begun to decrease in North America and the UK. This isn’t the case in Australia though, where in the last two years the industry has seen rapid growth.
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08:05 AM by ElspethB in E-Book General | News Amazon has released software called Kindle Convert that enables you to convert printed books into Kindle format, according to this article. Of course, you still have to go to the trouble of scanning your book, spread by spread or page by page, depending on the book size and your scanner. Way back in the late 90s I used to scan my books and use an OCR program to turn them into digital files that I could read on my Palm Pilot. It was laborious. Still, for $19 I might try it out. I have a few old books I'd love to read on my devices for which no e-book exists. |
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08:03 AM by GlenBarrington in E-Book General | News This publication pace is HARD to keep up with! "Go Set A Watchman" what is essentially a sequel to "To Kill A Mockingbird", though written first will be published in July. Link to story: http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/...le9010301.html |
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08:02 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News Dig up your munchies of choice, there's a new report from AUTHOR EARNINGS: http://authorearnings.com/report/jan...rnings-report/ The executive summary says it all.
Details and raw data, with lots of pretty charts, at the source. Here's a taste:
Edit: the section on ISBN usage is especially illuminating. |
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08:02 AM by Bookworm_Girl in E-Book General | News Earlier this month Macmillan made 1000 titles in their backlist catalog available on Oyster and Scribd. Now the Harry Potter series is available on Oyster. It appears to be an exclusive for now. There are 3 additional Hogwarts-related books that aren't available on Kindle Unlimited. Those would be Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. They've also created custom themes for reading related to the various houses. http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/109...ne-and-ron-and
Here are some links to other articles.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/28/oys...-harry-potter/
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Sun February 01 2015
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12:10 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
Help us choose a book as the February 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 We will start the discussion thread for this book on February 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Goodreads | Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US Spoiler:
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / ePub (Complete Works) / Kindle | Feedbooks / Google Play / ManyBooks / Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
• Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said Spoiler:
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Spoiler:
• Latakia by JF Smith Spoiler:
• Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy Spoiler:
• Echoes by Maeve Binchy Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble UK / Barnes & Noble US / Kobo Spoiler:
• Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy Spoiler:
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Kobo Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. |
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