Sat November 09 2013
MobileRead Week in Review: 11/02 - 11/09 |
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 |
Fri November 08 2013
UK Ofcom report on online copyright infringement tracking |
06:09 AM by sun surfer in E-Book General | News The report came out in September and uses information gathered from March-May 2013. Of particular interest here is the section on ebooks. I've only skimmed it so far so others may find other tidbits, but I found interesting that they estimate 1% of the (presumably UK) internet population download ebooks illegally. They've also listed where respondents get their ebooks from, which gives the side effect of providing some info on ebook seller market shares in the UK (though I'm not certain exactly how accurate it is since it's respondents versus hard data, and it's not really shares since respondents could choose multiple answers). These estimates also include sites that can be used to acquire ebooks illegally, which give a very interesting view on the situation. Here are the percentages of respondents who used the top services: 79% - Kindle (Amazon) The last two are coloured differently presumably as they are conglomerates of various options that can be used for illegal acquisition, so at least 7% who download ebooks use those kind of sites. |
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Thu November 07 2013
Archive.org's scanning center destroyed by fire |
10:54 AM by drjenkins in E-Book General | News http://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/s...-help-rebuild/
They are looking for donations to replace the $600,000 worth of book, film and microfilm scanning equipment lost in the fire. |
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onyx BOOX‘s new android eink reader C65HD/C65ML is for user testing now! |
05:10 AM by batchaesir in E-Book General | News onyx is carrying out a user testing of their android based eink reader BOOX C65HD/BOOX C65ML. Six members from ONYX official forum have already got the sample devices. Onyx is working hard to adapt android to their eink readers, and BOOX C65HD/BOOX C65ML will be their first one on the market featuring android, while sony closes the ability to hack their android based PRS T1/T2/T3. |
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Wed November 06 2013
Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" Wins Display Shoot-Out. |
04:11 AM by anthony81 in E-Book General | News Folks over at Display Mate have released there comprehensive test of flagship tablet displays. Tested was Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9”, Apple iPad Air, Google Nexus 10. Overall winner was Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9”! |
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Sat November 02 2013
Kindle First: Amazon wants to use you as a free beta tester :) |
06:59 PM by thomass in E-Book General | News
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MobileRead Week in Review: 10/26 - 11/02 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been absent and are keen to find out what MobileRead was up to this week, check out the links below: E-Book General - News |
Fri November 01 2013
FAA will allow use of electronic devices during takeoff |
05:25 AM by ElspethB in E-Book General | News Now it's up to the individual airlines. |
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