11:50 AM by Dopedangel in E-Book General | News

Russian handset maker Yota Devices has revealed details of its second generation e-ink display equipped YotaPhone today at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona.

The new device follows in the footsteps of the original, but shows a maturation of the technology concepts it was showing off first time around. For example, while the new model does still sport two screens, with one of them being a low-power e-ink affair, both are now full touchscreen displays allowing for easier control and extra functionality.

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/0...y-back/#!w3cGE

Now that the new version can be fully run on the eink side only this makes it very interesting. The rest of the phone specs also match most top of the line android phones.

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Once again, our weekly roundup of highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

E-Book General - News

• Amazon/Liquavista Hiring Process Engineers
• WSJ: 32% of the 100 top selling e-books on Amazon each week, on average, is self-pub

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• March 2014 Book Club Nominations

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• Announcing the Windows Devices forum

06:35 AM by Top100EbooksRank in E-Book General | News

Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...98604044404682

In 2013, self-published books accounted for 32% of the 100 top selling e-books on Amazon each week, on average

B&N (April 9 2013):
http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/pre...s_release.html

Customer demand for great independent content continues to dramatically increase as 30% of NOOK customers purchase self-published content each month, representing 25% of NOOK Book™ sales every month.

12:13 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

MobileRead Book Club
March 2014 Nominations

Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for March, 2014.

The nominations will run through midnight EST February 28 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days.

Book selection category for March is:

Travel/Adventure

In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).

How Does This Work?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.

How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.

How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.

How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.

How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.

When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.

The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.

Official choices with three nominations each:

(1) The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Amazon US / Project Gutenberg

(2) On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads by Tim Cope
Amazon US / Kobo

(3) Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle / ePub

(4) Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
No links provided.

(5) The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Barnes & Nobel / Kobo

(6) South: The Endurance Expedition to Antarctica by Ernest Shackleton
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle

(7) Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Amazon US / Kobo

(8) Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub

The nominations are now closed.

10:23 AM by pilotbob in Miscellaneous | Announcements

Mobileread is happy to announce that we have added a forum section specifically for discussing reading on Windows Devices.

Windows Devices Forum

With the release of Windows 8, the Surface and also Windows Phone 8 there is now a large and growing market of these devices. Due to this it was time to provide a home for our members to discuss reading with these devices, and also device selection and other issues.

Feel free to discuss Windows Tablet, Phone and PC reading software and other tips and tricks.

Mobileread Team

09:55 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

Amazon bought Liquavista from Samsung last March, so they've had the company for nearly a year now. I was just looking for news, and I came across some interesting job ads from Liquavista that were posted in the past month:

Operations Program Manager (Asia based)
Process Quality Engineer
Product Test Engineer
Process Development Engineer
Product Development Manager

and several others.

It looks to me like Liquavista think that the basic R&D is done, and that now they are moving towards mass production for a mass market product.

I have no idea how long a ramp up to volume production takes. I suppose they might just manage it in time for a product launch this Autumn.

But I'd be very surprised if we didn't see a Kindle using a Liquavista electro-wetting display by the end of 2015.

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

• EU Court of Justice on DRM circumvention
• Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Engineering Staff
• Hugh Howey presents: Amazon author earnings
• Author turned down $1.5 million book advances to continue to self-publish
• Open Road Media acquires E-Reads

04:48 AM by bgalbrecht in E-Book General | News

I used to buy a lot of E-Reads books back in the Fictionwise days, but I think they had been not been acquiring many new titles the last few years.

From the announcement:

Open Road Integrated Media, the largest independent ebook publisher, announced today that it has acquired E-Reads, the oldest independent ebook publisher in the field. E-Reads’ more than 1,200 titles, a majority of which are science fiction and fantasy and also span the mystery, thriller, romance, and horror genres, will now be published by Open Road and marketed through the company’s proprietary platform. E-Reads founder Richard Curtis will consult with Open Road during the transition.