Sat April 05 2014
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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
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10:13 AM by charmian in E-Book General | News
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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10:08 AM by issybird in E-Book General | News
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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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
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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 |
Thu March 27 2014
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06:52 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
Help us choose a book as the December 2013 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is We will start the discussion thread for this book on April 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Spoiler:
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Spoiler:
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Spoiler:
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Spoiler:
• The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Eugine Petrov Spoiler:
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Spoiler:
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Spoiler:
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Spoiler:
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Spoiler:
• Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Spoiler:
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Tue March 25 2014
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03:44 PM by geertm in E-Book General | News
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...onth/#comments According to one of the comments it is true. |
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Sat March 22 2014
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review What was going on this week at MobileRead? Here's your chance to catch-up if you missed something! E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |