Tue September 10 2013
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07:51 AM by jswinden in E-Book Readers | Apple Devices
Amazon has released what they call a mandatory update of the Kindle app for those who plan to upgrade to iOS 7. This update will prevent the loss of registration information and books, which could occur if you don't update the app before upgrading to iOS 7. Download link: iTunes |
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07:34 AM by AlPe in E-Book Software | Reading and Management
The project has been developed by three students, under my supervision, at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Padua), Italy. You can get the APK, the code (MIT license) and some EPUB ebooks featuring parallel texts (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license) from the GitHub public repo: https://github.com/pettarin/epub3reader Screenshots are here: https://github.com/pettarin/epub3rea...SCREENSHOTS.md The app is not production-grade yet, but I think it shows some interesting UI tricks novel or not widely adopted in EPUB reading systems. Please see the README for a discussion. Comments are welcome. |
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Sun September 08 2013
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09:23 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News
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04:15 AM by chaley in E-Book Software | Calibre Companion
This release:
Please comment or report problems with this release on this thread or by making a new thread. |
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02:33 AM by doctorow in E-Book General | General Discussions
From AllThingsD:
Here is the video: |
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02:25 AM by doctorow in E-Book General | News
Bloomberg has it as its Chart of the Day:
Did textbooks just get so much better, or is it a problem that professors, who are in charge of determining what their students have to buy, usually don't have any control over the cost of the textbooks? [image: wohnai via Flickr] |
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Sat September 07 2013
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05:44 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News
So is that really all? The author of the post doesn't exclude the possibility of other "invisible" watermarks, such as random variations in text or punctuation. How to know for sure? By comparing two separate purchases of the same book. |
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01:44 PM by K. Molen in E-Book General | General Discussions
On the one hand, it's still buying the book from a legal seller and the only thing that's making it a gray area is where I'm physically located. On the other hand, I'm denying authors some of their profits. To illustrate what I'm talking about, the Kindle ebook for Margaret Atwood's latest, Maddaddam, is $17.49 on Amazon.com and $9.98 on Amazon.in, so if I were to buy this via Amazon India I'd effectively deny Atwood approximately 50% of her royalties on that sale. I say approximately 50% because the list price show an even bigger difference, and I think authors probably earn their royalties on that price. In addition to the authors, I'm obviously also denying publishers some profit and possibly Amazon as well, although I'm less sure about the latter. So yeah... thoughts? [image: Pen Waggener via Flickr] |
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