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

If you've been too busy to check out MobileRead this week, check out our usual roundup:

E-Book General - News

• Crowdfunding: E-ink dev board & SDK with screens up to 9.7"
• New Zealand: Book sales down 15% but ebook sales "explode"
• USA TODAY article: 40% of adults own an e-reader or tablet
• ImcoV6L eReader – HD E-ink, Android, & Frontlight f
• And the Nobel prize for literature 2013...

E-Book General - Deals, Freebies, and Resources (No Self-Promotion)

• 65% off Baen's November 2013 Bundle

08:57 AM by owly in E-Book General | News

..goes to Alice Munro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro

Press release in English http://nobel.svenskaakademien.se/press_en.html

06:03 AM by jlynton in E-Book General | News

This one looks interesting, especially at €99:

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20.../#.UlQs3bNoZB0

6"-EBook-Reader
E-Ink-Pearl-Display (HD), Multi-Touch + Function buttons on body
Resolution: 1024 x 758; 16 Gray tones
Frontlight
4 GB internal memory
WiFi 802.11 b/g
microSD-Slot (max. 32 GB)
3.5mm-Headphone socket
Incorporated loudspeaker
EPUB, EPUB2, EPUB3, PDF, FB2, MOBI, TXT, RTF, HTML, HTM, CHM, DOC, DOCX, XLS/XLSL, PPT/PPTX, PDB, DJVU, DJV, ZIP, RAR, 7ZIP, MP3, WAV, WMA
Adobe DRM, PDF reflow
DRM10 (WMDRM)
Android OS (Free App Installations)

07:17 AM by DreamWriter in E-Book General | News

An article in USA Today titled "E-books are changing reading habits" discusses results of a poll regarding e-reader/tablet ownership and reading habits:

A poll conducted for USA TODAY and Bookish, a website designed to help people find and buy books, finds that 40% of adults — including 46% of those ages 18 to 39 — own an e-reader or a tablet. That's more than double the numbers less than two years ago.

Reading devices are even more popular among college graduates (60% say they have one) and those with annual household incomes of at least $75,000 (62%).

According to the poll, 35% of those with reading devices say they're reading more books since they got their reading devices.

12:35 PM by GeoffR in E-Book General | News

New Zealand Herald, 6th October 2013

According to industry experts:

* Book sales have dropped 15% in the last 6-9 months

* International publishers including Hachette are pulling out of the New Zealand market

* New Zealand ebook market has gone from nothing to US proportions in 12 months

05:09 AM by KevinShort in E-Book General | News

The same group of people who started the campaign to fund an E-ink Monitor / Ebook Reader have come up with another idea: an E-ink-compatible board just for developers.

The new Indiegogo campaign has been set up so that you can pick from a variety of displays. There's the standard 6" display with or without capacitive touch and/or a frontlight, and they also have grayscale 9.7" and color 8" E-ink displays. If you don't care about electronic paper, you can also choose a 7" LCD with touch.

The board itself has a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, 512MB of DDR3 RAM, 4GB flash memory, Wi-Fi, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a speaker, USB host and OTG support, and HDMI output.

Now, I do quite a bit of tinkering with my Kobo devices, and I'm quite happy with how hackable they are. But If I had the extra cash I'd seriously consider getting myself one or two of these dev boards

03:40 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

Just a reminder that if you want to buy Baen's November 2013 Bundle, six SF/Fantasy books for $18, you only have TEN days left to buy it. The bundle will come off sale sometime on the 15th October, and the full bundle can be downloaded by those who've bought it sometime from the 16th onwards.

The total cost of the individual books is about $52. So if you don't already have any of the books in the bundle, that's a saving of 65%!

The books in the November bundle are:

• Trade Secret by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
• Come and Take Them by Tom Kratman
• Spheres of Influence by Ryk Spoor
• A Cosmic Christmas 2 You edited by Hank Davis
• Rising Sun by Robert Conroy
• Darkship Renegades by Sarah Hoyt

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

Is it really Saturday again? Hoorah! Time to dig in to another digest of MobileRead delectables

E-Book General - News

• (Sweden) Adlibris launches new ebook web site
• HarperCollins Pursues E-Book Subscription Service With Scribd
• A report on the global e-book market 2013
• Public Library Zinio access now has back issues
• Adobe Hacked: Customer Info Stolen