Sat April 19 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 04/12 - 04/19 |
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: Miscellaneous - Announcements |
Wed April 16 2014
The MobileRead wiki turns 8 years old |
05:53 PM by DaleDe in Miscellaneous | Announcements The MobileRead wiki turns 8 years old this month. You can see a history and status of the wiki at Wiki Statistics. To celebrate this event I have redone the eBook Reader Matrix with an all new page with all new devices. All of the products shown are available this year. I saved the original E-book Reader Matrix page for posterity. It has 1.9 million views and was around even before the wiki existed. It now shows what may have been the heyday of eBook readers but it out of date with the current generation of products. The wiki itself continues to grow with over 1200 pages in the main pages and over 1300 total content pages. It has a viewership of over 27 million views. The top 3 pages have more than 1 million views each and the top 7 is over 500,000. Kindle is well represented with 10 of the top 30 pages and 12 pages with over 100,000 views. Of course this wiki is for everyone and anyone can edit it to improve the content. It will take a lot of us to keep the pages up to date. So take a look and add to the knowledge base. Remember there is a link to the wiki at the top of the forum page. It is meant to be a handy reference for forum topics and a knowledge base for all things Mobile Read. Thanks to all that have helped with the wiki. Without you the wiki would be sparse and inaccurate. Enjoy, |
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Sat April 12 2014
Amazon acquiring digital comics platform Comixology |
09:14 AM by Dopedangel in E-Book General | News http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/10/56...orm-comixology I hope this doesn't mean I will loose access to my collection. Amazon does not sell Kindle here or ebooks. |
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Sat April 05 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 03/29 - 04/05 |
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 |
Mon March 31 2014
E Ink forecasts loss as ebook device demand falls |
10:13 AM by charmian in E-Book General | News http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/.../29/2003586752
The e-ink reader market is not doing too well (double digit percentage decline). This makes me suspect this year we'll see only incremental spec bumps in new e-ink readers (if any). |
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Kobo No Longer at Ebates |
10:08 AM by issybird in E-Book General | News I went to purchase a book at Kobo just now and noticed that my Ebates button didn't go green. When I checked, I found that Kobo is no longer among the stores offering rebates through Ebates.com. It used to be a very nice deal, especially as the rebate was alway calculated on the Kobo price before any coupons; the 5% back they offered most recenty translated to 95% off during the recent madness. Earlier, their 10% rebate knocked $13 off the price of my Glo, although I bought it with a $60 coupon. The end of an era. And it makes me wonder if, now that Sony is dead in North America, if Kobo isn't poised to cut back on the deals and discounts. The generous coupons during the most recent contest perhaps suggest the alternative. Frankly, I don't get what's going on, but that's Kobo. |
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Antitrust fallout: retailers sue conspirators |
10:08 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News US antitrust is primarily about consumer harm (hence the recent compensation awards) but it also offers (small) companies a venue for redress of anticompetitive behavior by other companies. In the price fix conspiracy case, the publishers settled to limit liability but since Apple refused to settle, the evidence and findings still ended up in the public record. Now comes word of the fallout: small independent ebookstores that have folded or died stillborn are suing Apple and the publishers for anticompetitive behavior, painting themselves as collateral damage of the conspirators' favoritism towards Apple. Publishing Weekly has a (very slightly slanted) report on the lawsuits and the plaintiffs: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...st-claims.html
PW takes a skeptical view of the suits because of the small size of the companies filing but anybody who remembers the aftermath of the Microsoft case knows that it is the smaller players that receive the most sympathetic treatment in court under antitrust enforcement. (Especially when the judge is annoyed.) And that once the small players win, the bigger ones pile on. And in this case, if the small Adept-based ebookstores can make a case that gheh were harmed by the conspiracy to reduce competition in the BPH ebook market, then so can Adobe, Sony, and Google. And, because the Agency pricing of ebooks enabled Nook and Kindle to sell eink readers at or below cost, so can hardware-only reader vendors like Pocketbook, Bookeen, Aztak, etc. (Essentially anybody that signed up to sell generic Adept ebooks and hardware has at least a ghost of a chance.) Once the rulings start piling up, the lawsuits start snowballing. Apple really should have settled. |
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Sat March 29 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 03/22 - 03/29 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been too busy to check out MobileRead this week, check out our usual roundup: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |