Sat January 24 2015
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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
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09:21 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News
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
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12:01 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
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
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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
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11:43 AM by Lin2412 in E-Book General | News
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Tue January 13 2015
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02:58 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News
See the announcement on their blog. But it's not Macmillan's entire catalogue. Only 'more than a thousand'. |
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02:55 PM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News
More at the source. |
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Sat January 10 2015
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10:15 PM by Marseille in E-Book Readers | Android Devices You may have heard of Project Ara, Google ATAP's modular phone. It went through two developer's conferences and two tech spirals last year in a surprisingly open development process. A lot of what we got to see usually happens behind closed doors. This month will be the third conference, and Google wants to sell its first devices this year, though it would be a 'limited market pilot' at first. There are long form articles posted in the top item in this FAQ: http://www.projectara.com/faq/ Some are a bit old (fortune is the newest in August), but they all do a good job of explaining what Ara is and how it came to be. Basically you can build your own phone and pick your own processor, storage options, battery capacity, cameras and peripherals, and upgrade any one without having to upgrade the entire device. Some modules are hot swappable, so you can flip in, for example, a fully charged battery module to replace a drained one on the go (no power down needed). Screens are also modules, and thus the reason for this post. Ara probably won't succeed without market demand. Google has big partners unlike a lot of modular programs out there you might hear about. Toshiba, NVIDIA, Marvell, Rockchip, Quanta, etc are all on board, and that's important. And they've also sought to develop smaller partners worldwide with these development conferences. But I don't see marketing budgets like Samsung's or Apple's ever coming to bear here. This will be more democratic. It will succeed or fail depending on demand from users. Diversity of modules may depend on how active users are. This post is for anyone who might want to build, not just a phone, but any mobile device, to their own tastes. As we're all readers here, I'm asking you to tweet at E Ink and ask them to support @ProjectAra so we can all build our own eReaders, independent of any one store front. So we can use our own readerware, news readers, browsers. So we can keep audiobooks, podcasts and music on board and do TTS. So we can choose a size of eReader that suits us. So we can choose our own battery capacity or make our dedicated eReader a little less dedicated and more multiuse if we so please. If you're interested, please tweet to E Ink at https://twitter.com/EInk that you want them to make an eink screen for @ProjectAra and post below to let me know if you do. Feel free to ask questions here if you're curious about Ara. |
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