Thu February 20 2014
March 2014 Book Club Nominations |
12:13 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs MobileRead Book Club 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? How Does a Book Get Selected? How Many Nominations Can I Make? How Do I Nominate a Book? How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? When is the Poll? The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.
(1) The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Spoiler:
(2) On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads by Tim Cope Spoiler:
(3) Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Spoiler:
(4) Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Spoiler:
(5) The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Spoiler:
(6) South: The Endurance Expedition to Antarctica by Ernest Shackleton Spoiler:
(7) Wild by Cheryl Strayed Spoiler:
(8) Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. |
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Tue February 18 2014
Announcing the Windows Devices forum |
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. 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 |
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Sat February 15 2014
Amazon/Liquavista Hiring Process Engineers |
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) 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. |
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MobileRead Week in Review: 02/08 - 02/15 |
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 |
Fri February 14 2014
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. |
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Author turned down $1.5 million book advances to continue to self-publish |
04:48 AM by Top100EbooksRank in E-Book General | News Saw this post from the PassiveVoice, it's interesting so I thought I would share. http://www.thepassivevoice.com/02/20...in-trad-deals/ From author H.M. Ward on Kindleboards:
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Wed February 12 2014
Hugh Howey presents: Amazon author earnings |
10:27 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News Real world data massaged, charted, ready for analysis. Original site: Since the site is overwhelmed with traffic, Joe Konrath is hosting a copy. Howey says:
There is a whole lot more at the sites. With more to come. I suspect a lot of debate will follow. Just consider this chart: Spoiler:
Kabooom! Edit: Original source site is accesible by now. |
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Mon February 10 2014
Barnes & Noble Fired Its Nook Engineering Staff |
03:57 PM by afv011 in E-Book General | News "Barnes & Noble laid off its Nook hardware engineers, according to a source that tipped Business Insider. [EDIT]Later info says it's wasn't the hardware engineers.[/EDIT] |
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