Tue January 13 2015
Scribd signs up Macmillan |
02:58 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News Another announcement from Scribd of a big publisher signing up with them. After Houghton Mifflin Harcourt they now also have Macmillan. See the announcement on their blog. But it's not Macmillan's entire catalogue. Only 'more than a thousand'. |
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Amazon takes over university's textbook sales operation |
02:55 PM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News From the Boston Globe:
More at the source. |
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Sat January 10 2015
Can E Ink Corp. Help You Build Your Own Ara eReader? |
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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MobileRead Week in Review: 01/03 - 01/10 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been absent and are keen to find out what MobileRead was up to this week, check out the links below: E-Book General - News |
Wed January 07 2015
Kindle sales have 'disappeared', says UK's largest book retailer |
06:14 AM by Lin2412 in E-Book General | News Amazon launched the Kindle, which is now in its seventh generation, in 2007. Sales peaked in 2011 at around 13.44m
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Sat December 27 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 12/20 - 12/27 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Once again, our weekly roundup of highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Tue December 23 2014
E-readers 'damage sleep and health,' doctors warn |
06:18 AM by Halk in E-Book General | News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30574260 The article, however is not talking about electronic readers it's talking about using a tablet instead of an electronic reader. It's a very badly written article. "The researchers said other e-readers such as the Nook and Kindle Fire produced similar wavelengths of light and would have the same impact." Some Nooks do not produce similar wavelengths of light. |
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Sat December 20 2014
January 2015 VOTE |
10:04 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs MobileRead Book Club Help us select the next book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for January, 2014. Book selection category for January is: Second Chance There will be no nominations this month. The way Second Chance works is that the poll is comprised of selections that either came in second place or tied for second place during the previous 11 months. 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. Here are the selections you will be considering: • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger <><><> Descriptions <><><> February: Romance Spoiler:
March: Travel/Adventure Spoiler:
April: Classics Spoiler:
May: Mystery/Thriller Spoiler:
June: Award Winners Spoiler:
July: Non-fiction Spoiler:
August: Science Fiction Spoiler:
September: Banned/Challenged Books Spoiler:
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Tie for 2nd place) Spoiler:
October: Patricia Clark Memorial Library Spoiler:
November: Foreign (originally non-English) Spoiler:
December: Short Stories Spoiler:
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