Fri February 20 2015
March 2015 Book Club Nominations |
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? 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.
Official choices with three nominations each: (1) West with the Night by Beryl Markham Spoiler:
(2) The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby Spoiler:
(3) Timeline by Michael Crichton Spoiler:
(4) Lost Horizon by James Hilton Spoiler:
(5) A Lady Cyclist's Guide To Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson Spoiler:
(6) South by Ernest Shackleton Spoiler:
(7) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Albert Lansing Spoiler:
(8) The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain Spoiler:
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Tue February 17 2015
Project to Translate Classical Indian Literature |
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. |
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Sat February 14 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 02/07 - 02/14 |
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 |
Thu February 12 2015
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
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Wed February 11 2015
Scribd teams up with Marvel |
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? |
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Mon February 09 2015
Singularity Kickstarter to Save Old SF Books |
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
MobileRead Week in Review: 01/31 - 02/07 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Previously at MobileRead: E-Book General - News
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Wed February 04 2015
Australians Love Affair with eBooks |
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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