Sat January 25 2014
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07:27 AM by Mims in E-Book General | News
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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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
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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
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05:23 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News
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
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01:06 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
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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Sat January 18 2014
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11:19 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News Thanks to The Digital Reader for more news on an interesting new reflective LCD display. While it clearly is initially aimed at watches and similar devices, it can scale to ereader sized displays. At 3mW to 4mW for a 6" display, a 3.7V, 1.9Ah battery like the one in a Kindle could power the display for 70 days or so. Of course, that's just the display, power is needed for the computer part of an ereader too, but it shows that the display is low power enough to be used in an ereader. The displays going into production have a reflectance of 32% and a contrast ratio of 20:1 In comparison, eInk's Carta display has a reflectance of 44%, but a contrast ratio of only 15:1. Japan Display claim 40% reflectance for their large screen prototype. I really hope some ereader manufacturer produces a device with this display. |
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11:01 AM by Loosheesh in E-Book General | News Today I got an email from eChristian.com about their site closing down
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Previously at MobileRead: E-Book General - News |