Sat August 09 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 08/02 - 08/09 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Have something interesting to say about e-books or mobile computing? Join our forums and share your view on topics like the ones discussed at MobileRead this past week... E-Book General - News |
Sat August 02 2014
End of Sony consumer readers confirmed |
05:32 PM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News Comes third hand via the Digital Reader Blog via lesen.net:
Expected but still... Hindsight being 20-20; they did have an amazing knack of zigging when the market was zagging. |
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MobileRead Week in Review: 07/26 - 08/02 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Here are the highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead: E-Book General - News |
Fri August 01 2014
Format shifting now legal in the UK |
05:35 AM by avantman42 in E-Book General | News I doubt it makes much practical difference, since many people assumed it was legal anyway, and circumventing DRM isn't allowed. All that said, I'm happy to see this change, because I think it's reasonable to want to format shift, and reasonable activities shouldn't be illegal.
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Wed July 30 2014
Kindle iOS 4.4 |
09:34 AM by Loosheesh in E-Book General | News The latest Kindle iOS app update has some interesting new features (I think they've been getting ideas from Marvin ):
(Above text copied from: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/29/...-improvements/) |
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Tue July 29 2014
Apple acquired BookLamp |
06:21 AM by jhowell in E-Book General | News I haven't seen this mentioned here yet. Forgive me if I missed a thread on this. TechCrunch: Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon
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Author Earnings looks at Nook... and Hachette... |
06:20 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News Well, now, this one is unexpected... http://authorearnings.com/july-2014-barnes-noble/ Oh, not the indie vs tradpub breakdowns--those mirror Kindle, as generally expected:
But, comparing their February Nook look to the new July numbers...
Hachette has... uhmm... declined... from 9% of Nook total sales to 7%... Good thing there is a massive exodus of buyers from Amazon. |
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Sat July 26 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 07/19 - 07/26 |
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
E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |