Wed February 04 2015
January 2015 Author Earnings report |
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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Oyster announces partnership with Pottermore |
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
February Book Club Vote |
12:10 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs February 2015 MobileRead Book Club Vote 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 You may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. 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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Sat January 24 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 01/17 - 01/24 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Gosh we've talked a lot this week. Here's your weekly round up of MobileRead's events. E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Fri January 23 2015
Amazon launches eTextbook creator |
09:21 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News Via Fortune:
More at the source and Amazon. No mention of the eink readers but with the multicolor highlighting they're obviously targetting tablets. |
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Tue January 20 2015
February 2015 Book Club Nominations |
12:01 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs MobileRead Book Club Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for February, 2015. The nominations will run through midnight EST January 31 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 February is: Romance 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.
(1) The fault in Our Stars by John Green Spoiler:
(2) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Spoiler:
(3) Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said Spoiler:
(4) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Spoiler:
(5) Latakia by JF Smith Spoiler:
(6) Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy Spoiler:
(7) Echoes by Maeve Binchy Spoiler:
(8) Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy Spoiler:
(9) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. |
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Sat January 17 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 01/10 - 01/17 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Feast your eyes on some of the discussions from this week at MobileRead... E-Book General - News |
Fri January 16 2015
Apple: 1 million new iBooks customers each week since iOS 8 launch |
11:43 AM by Lin2412 in E-Book General | News
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