Mon May 19 2014
Backward-Looking Authors' Guild Faces a New Challenger |
06:56 AM by Ninjalawyer in E-Book General | News Ah the Authors Guild, notable mainly for its fear and hatred of anything new (Amazon text-to-speech, Google book scanning, etc.), or that isn't entirely aligned with a small number of top authors and big publishing houses. If only there was an organization for authors in the U.S. that actually embraced the future for the benefit of its members, rather than one that has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the present. Well, now one is launching. The Authors Alliance is launching May 21st, with a plan to "further the public interest in facilitating widespread access to works of authorship by helping authors navigate the opportunities and challenges of the digital age. We provide information and tools designed to help authors better understand and manage key legal, technological, and institutional aspects essential to a knowledge economy of abundance." |
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Sat May 17 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/10 - 05/17 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Been away? Fear not! Here is your chance to check out what appeared on our frontpage this week: E-Book General - News |
Fri May 16 2014
RIP Mary Stewart |
05:48 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News Well known British author Mary Stewart has died at age 97.
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Sat May 10 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/03 - 05/10 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Is it really Sunday again? Hoorah! Time to dig in to another digest of MobileRead delectables E-Book General - News |
Thu May 08 2014
Sony closing Europe and Aus stores 16 June 2014 |
07:20 AM by Lynx-lynx in E-Book General | News Email received just now:
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Navy eReader Device (NeRD) |
04:59 AM by JAcheson in E-Book General | News Engadget has a story about the US Navy's new eReader device, which is a locked-down eInk device containing a static library of books: http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/navy-e-reader/ It's hardly attractive to me, but if I were serving on a ship with no other source of reading material, it would be a lot better than nothing. I wonder if it is waterproofed? |
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Sat May 03 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 04/26 - 05/03 |
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 |
Fri May 02 2014
News Corp buys Harlequin |
03:33 PM by BearMountainBooks in E-Book General | News This may have been reported already elsewhere? But it looks like Harlequin is now part of News Corp. and will be under the HarperCollins imprint/control. I wonder if this means those books will be on Scribd and be discounted now and then... http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27261500 edited to add this related article: |
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