Sat February 01 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 01/25 - 02/01 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review It was the week that was. Here's what MobileRead's been talking about since last Sunday: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
February Book Club Vote |
01:11 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs February 2014 MobileRead Book Club Vote Help us choose a book as the February 2014 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 You may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. We will start the discussion thread for this book on February 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Spoiler:
• Dirty Little Secrets (Romantic Mystery) by Liliana Hartk Spoiler:
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Spoiler:
• Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan Spoiler:
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Spoiler:
• Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer Spoiler:
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Spoiler:
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Spoiler:
• Local Custom by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Spoiler:
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Tue January 28 2014
Simon & Schuster Expands Library eBook Pilot to OverDrive |
06:18 AM by tubemonkey in E-Book General | News Simon & Schuster Expanding Library Ebook Pilot This is the first time for OverDrive. Earlier pilots involved 3M and Axis 360. This pilot includes full access to S&S's entire catalog - both frontlist and backlist. Check the list below to see if your library is included. So far, only half of the libraries selected have jumped in. Don't know who the other 16 are yet.
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Sat January 25 2014
Fictionwise's last hurrah: Buywise club refund |
07:27 AM by Mims in E-Book General | News Did you have an account with Fictionwise? Did you have membership in their "buywise club"? If the answer to both is "yes", check your email for an email from "support@penchecks.com" with subject line "PenChecks Participant Distribution Notification". It contains information and a PIN to get a refund from Pencheck for your unused Fictionwise membership. I had forgotten that this was due and very pleasantly surprised to get this email today. Barnes & Nobles are using penchecks to distribute cheques with pro-rata refunds of the buywise club membership fees. |
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MobileRead Week in Review: 01/18 - 01/25 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Missed some of our big stories this week? Time to catch up: E-Book General - News
E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Fri January 24 2014
Overdrive moves to MP3 for audiobooks - drops DRM |
08:20 AM by skinmaan in E-Book General | News Thought someone out there might find this interesting... http://boingboing.net/2014/01/23/all...s-going-t.html
For me, this is great news. Great to see the industry moving in this direction. skinmaan |
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Wed January 22 2014
Adobe Digital Editions 3.0 released |
05:23 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News Adobe have just released Adobe Digital Editions 3.0 with a new DRM scheme, although news of it seems confined to their US web site at present. Thanks to Nate the Great at The Digital Reader for the heads-up. UPDATE: What does this mean for me? The new DRM encryption will only be used on ePubs downloaded for the first time with ADE 3.0. (The retailer's server needs updating too, but that's harder for an end user to tell.) So to avoid the new DRM scheme, make sure that you only download any newly purchased ePubs with ADE 2.0 for now. Eventually (possibly even as early as July 2014), Adobe might require the use of ADE 3.0 for new purchases. But until then, using ADE 2.0 is my advice.
More Secure DRM Scheme Enhanced Support for Vertical Layout
Support for CSS 2.1 Text Properties
PDF Search Improvements Migration to the Latest Version of Compiler on Mac |
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Mon January 20 2014
February 2014 Book Club Nominations |
01:06 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 February, 2014. The nominations will run through midnight EST January 31 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 February is: Romance 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) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Spoiler:
(2) Dirty Little Secrets (Romantic Mystery) by Liliana Hartk Spoiler:
(3) The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Spoiler:
(4) Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan Spoiler:
(5) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Spoiler:
(6) Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer Spoiler:
(7) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Spoiler:
(8) I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Spoiler:
(9) Local Custom by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Spoiler:
The nominations for February are now closed. |
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