04:26 AM by Cosimo in E-Book General | General Discussions

I noticed tonight that under Product Information is an item titled Download Options where it lists the file type and if it is DRM protected.

I believe this is new, I haven't noticed it before and I visit the site several times a day.

12:07 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

MobileRead Book Club
December 2014 Nominations

Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for December, 2014.

The nominations will run through midnight EST November 30 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 December is:

Short Stories

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?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.

How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.

How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.

How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.

How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.

When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.

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) The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub (Complete Works) / LibriVox (Audiobook) / Project Gutenberg (Various Formats)

(2) The Altar of the Dead by Henry James
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub (Complete Works) | Kindle / LibriVox (Audiobook) / Project Gutenberg (Various Formats)

(3) Mistletoe in Manhattan: A Christmas Story by Talli Roland
Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US

(4) The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

The nominations are now closed.

08:05 AM by Dopedangel in E-Book General | News

Now that Nokia is free of microsoft they are coming out with a tablet. Always liked the hardware was disappointed they went windows for their OS instead of Android the main reason I feel that they got destroyed in smartphones.

http://www.androidcentral.com/nokia-...llipop-out-box

Not a bad device for $249

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for our weekly roundup of what's new and interesting in the world of e-books.

E-Book General - News

• The guardian: Self-publishers are...
• “Sony Developing New DRM to Make Used eBooks Viable”
• Netherlands Amazon Store now online
• Amazon Wins Auction for .Book Domain
• Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute
• Family Library now available for Kindle eReaders

04:35 AM by tubemonkey in E-Book General | News

New Features for Kindle E-Readers Now Available

New features including Word Wise and Family Library coming to Kindle e-readers as part of a free, over-the-air software update

Amazon today announced a software update for Kindle e-readers that includes exclusive features such as Word Wise and Family Library. This free, over-the-air software update will be delivered automatically in the coming weeks to the newly announced $79 Kindle and Kindle Voyage, as well as the most recent version of Kindle Paperwhite, or you can visit www.amazon.com/kindlesoftwareupdates to download the software update starting today.

Family Library—For the first time, you can access not only your own Kindle books, but also books from the Amazon account of a spouse or partner. See a screenshot: www.amazon.com/family-library.

04:35 AM by tagboy in E-Book General | News

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/te...1&pgtype=Blogs

or

http://tinyurl.com/oc9yolv

06:51 AM by SteveEisenberg in E-Book General | News

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...ok-domain.html

The new generic TLD strings (including .buy which Amazon also won) were introduced by ICANN in an effort to address a maxed out marketplace for .com names. ICANN hopes to foster increased commercial activity in the Internet name marketplace.

Amazon won the auction despite a filing by the Association of American Publishers in 2013 that opposed its bid, and described the possible control of the .book TLD by the retailer, or by any private company, to be counter to the public interest.

05:07 PM by Katsunami in E-Book General | News

Source

Synopsis:

Starting next Wednesday, Amazon will start selling e-readers, 20.000 books in Dutch, and 3 million books in other languages in The Netherlands. Amazon hopes to be able to make a difference regarding their devices and apps functionality, as they think they will not be able to lower the price of e-books in The Netherlands. "Normally, the price of a book is decided by the publisher or the author," says Amazon.

This will put Amazon in a very different position towards publishers, compared with the US, where Amazon is now fighting Hachette regarding e-book pricing. "Dutch publishers are modern, and have embraced digital reading, so negotiations went well, compared to other countries," says Ezequiel Szafir.

Amazon will be selling around 20K books in Dutch; less than Bol.com, who is working together with Kobo, selling around 30K titles in Dutch. Amazon does sell a lot more titles in other languages; 3 million vs. 2 million. Almost 60% of Dutch e-books in the Netherlands are sold by Bol.com.

Amazon will sell three Kindles:
Kindle Basic, €59.
Kindle Paperwhite, €109 (temporarily; later €129)
Kindle Voyage, €189

Books sold by Amazon can only be read on the Kindle. However, Dutch stores now normally sell EPUB ooks protected by a watermark only, which will make them readable on all (EPUB) devices and apps.

It's not yet clear if other parts of Amazon, such as clothes an physical goods will be brought over to the Netherlands.