Tue November 11 2014
Netherlands Amazon Store now online |
05:07 PM by Katsunami in E-Book General | News 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: 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. |
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“Sony Developing New DRM to Make Used eBooks Viable” |
03:57 AM by disconnected in E-Book General | News http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-n...-ebooks-viable From the article -- “Sony plans on making their new eBook encryption system very appealing towards publishers and e-reader manufactures.” “ I have heard from a reputable source that Sony already has six publishers locked up and will be leveraging those relationship in order to establish new ones.” “…. define a clear path of ownership, this will allow people to sell a used eBook and it will actually physically disappear from the original owners account.”
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Mon November 10 2014
The guardian: Self-publishers are... |
09:18 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...elf-publishing
More at the source, including this:
Ouch. |
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Sat November 08 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 11/01 - 11/08 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week. E-Book General - News |
Fri November 07 2014
Scribd adds Audiobooks to its Plan |
10:23 AM by tubemonkey in E-Book General | News Scribd Adds Audiobooks To All-You-Read Library, Piling Pressure On Amazon
This adds a new dynamic to these subscription plans. The ball is now in Amazon's court. |
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Sat November 01 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 10/25 - 11/01 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Ok kids, time for the weekly roundup of what we've covered this week: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations E-Book Readers - Kobo Reader |
November 2014 Book Club Vote |
12:11 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs November 2014 MobileRead Book Club Vote We will start the discussion thread for this book on November 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko Spoiler:
• The Bat by Jo Nesbø Spoiler:
• Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Spoiler:
• The Iron King by Maurice Druon Spoiler:
• As Red as Blood by Salla Simukka Spoiler:
• How to Make Love To a Negro Without Getting Tired by Dany Laferriere Spoiler:
• Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier Spoiler:
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Thu October 30 2014
New online preview feature on Kobo's website |
09:59 AM by GeoffR in E-Book Readers | Kobo Reader I just noticed there is a new preview option available on the Kobo website. I can preview a book in a popup window in my browser, I don't need to be logged in or download the preview to a Kobo app or device. This is from the New Zealand site, it might not be everywhere, so I've added some screenshots of what I see: |
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