Today's Top eReading News & Stories - June 29
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Finish the weekend by adding 3 more bargain books and 2 free books to your Kindle library. Make sure to “LIKE” and share with everyone you know. Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has a 4.5 star...
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Need more books? Here’s a set of 3 bargain books and 2 free books to get you on your way. “LIKE” this if you love free books! Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has a 4.5 star rating and is on s...
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Here’s another selection of 4 bargain books and 2 free books for you to download and enjoy. Make sure to “LIKE” and share these deals with a friend or two. Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has...
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Relax with your Kindle today and download these 4 bargain books and 2 free books. Please “LIKE” and share with friends and family. Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has a 4.5 star rating and is...
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Mobile gaming has become pretty efficient at the turn-based grouping systems –you challenge me, I challenge you, and we battle back and forth. This methodology isn’t bad, in fact it’s pretty good –but Dungeon Hunt...
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June 29, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is ISCARIOT — an award-winning work of fiction humanizing the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal – for just $2.99. Overview History has called him many things:...
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Audiobooks were the major trend of the American Library Association Annual conference in Las Vegas. Many of the top eBook distributors to libraries were all showcasing their next generation app platforms that put a priority on synergy an...
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Simon and Schuster has expanded on a 20 library pilot project and has rolled out a Nationwide eBook lending plan. The publisher has mandated that their eBooks will only be made available if libraries opt into selling the eBooks. The Buy ...
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With their texts, tweets and Tumblr blogs, alt lit stars such as Steve Roggenbuck are bringing poetry to a new audience Steve Roggenbuck published his first YouTube video (that I know about) in 2010: close-ups of a chapbook of short poem...
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Skytex is one of the many small gadget makers that first got into ereaders in 2010 and then quickly got out of that market and into tablets. They have produced many Android devices over the past 3 years, both good and bad, and the Skypad...
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Here’s another selection of 3 bargain books and 2 free books. Remember to “LIKE” and spread the word about ENT. Enjoy your evening! Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has a 4.5 star rating...
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Add more books to your Kindle library by downloading this set of 3 bargain books and 2 free books. Please “LIKE” and share with your book-loving friends. Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has a...
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It’s a perfect day to lounge around with your Kindle and download these 4 bargain books and 2 free books. Make sure to “LIKE” and let other book enthusiasts in on your source for Kindle deals. Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-wi...
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Happy Saturday! Here are 4 bargain books and 2 free books to download and enjoy. Please “LIKE” and share ENT with everyone! Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has a 4.5 star rating and is on sal...
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I bought my Kindle for work, honest, but there's been mission creep. I'm so not proud of myself On the day Independent Booksellers Week begins, I feel I should confess: I've become a Kindle owner. Look, sometimes these things just happen...
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Baker & Taylor Axis 360 is the definitive app that library patrons use to read books, listen to audio or watch streaming video. One of the downsides is that B&T relies on many 3rd party companies such as Blio, Acoustic to deliver...
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Eizo's self-calibrating 27in monitor receives a host of upgrades - is the ColorEdge CG277 the perfect professional panel?
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Smashwords and Bookbaby have established relationships with Baker and Taylor for digital distribution to libraries. Both of these companies provide a small list of curated authors that assist the people in charge of acquisitions lives a ...
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June 28, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is THE FIRST WORLD WAR – in remembrance of World War I today, on its 100 Year Anniversary – for just $2.99. Overview Raging for over four years across the tortured landscape...
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TRANSFORMERS 4: AGE OF EXTINCTION opens this weekend in theaters — check out the trailer, here in the NOOK Screening Room! In the aftermath of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Autobots and Decepticons have all ...
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The used ebook marketplace Tom Kabinet is only a week old but it is already facing legal challenges to its business model. eReaders.nl reported this morning that the Groep Algemene Uitgevers (GAU), the Dutch Trade Publishers Association,...
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[Press Release] McGraw-Hill Education Expands Boston Office, Opens New Technology Hub in Seattle to Advance Digital R&D Efforts New and expanded offices will see arrival of around 140 new hires from hotbeds of technology and innovati...
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Self-published authors who’ve experienced a measure of success in their writing careers often cite the usual reasons for their decisions to publish independently. These authors have grown tired of the query game and the contract ne...
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[Press Release] Ingram’s MyiLibrary Platform Available to More Libraries through SirsiDynix eResource Central Ingram Content Group Inc., today announced a collaboration with SirsiDynix to expand the reach and simplify the discovery...
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Never one to pass up an opportunity to have a sale, Amazon is known the world over for pushing their prices as low as legally possible but unfortunately for the retailer that limit just got a little tighter in France. Yesterday the Frenc...
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Indulge in another set of 3 bargain books and 2 free books. Remember to “LIKE” and share with everyone. Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has a 4.5 star rating and is on sale for only $2.99 ...
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News reports are coming out of Russia today that Yota Devices, makers of the dual-screen Yotaphone, have filed some type of lawsuit against the Russian subsidiary of the Ukrainian ereader maker Pocketbook. According to Itarr-Tass, the Ru...
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Amazon launched its Kindle Worlds fan fiction platform just over a year ago, and the concept has been a great success for both the rights holders who license content to the site and the fans who adore the concepts and story lines of thei...
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Here are 3 more bargain books and 2 free books for you to enjoy. Make sure to “LIKE” and let friends and family in on the deals. Book Of The Day: Ghost Detective by award-winning author Scott William Carter has a 4.5 star rating and is o...
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June 27, 2014: Today’s BONUS Free Friday is RANDOM VIOLENCE – a thought-provoking novel about mysterious crimes that are all connected. Happy Friday, and happy reading! Overview In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in gated communities...
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In March, we hosted a popular series of webcasts covering three major areas in ebook production today: design and typography, source file preparation and digital workflow development. All three of those sessions were flooded with questio...
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Revenues flattening out as predicted, Simon & Schuster widens ebook access for libraries, five tips for digital publishing start-ups, Forgotten Books launches subscription services and much more.
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Tokyo, June 27, 2014 – Kobo Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, Inc., today announced the company will collaborate with the famous Japanese girl pop group Nogizaka46 at the Japan Expo in Paris, France, to showcase th...
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Even someone who has never stepped foot on the Internet (so to speak) knows what YouTube is. Considered to be the largest platform for video streaming and viewership in the world, YouTube is little more than the sum of its parts: each of...
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It didn’t take long to start hearing about the hardware options headed our way that will take advantage of Android TV –with one of the first big announcements coming from Razer (a company best known for high-end gaming PCs, l...
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The corporate world is a little bit lost right now when it comes to mobile devices. Once upon a time, BlackBerry was the logical (and only) choice –Research in Motion (RIM) was highly security conscious and their smartphones were s...
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June 27, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is UP AT BUTTERNUT LAKE — Mary McNear’s charming and uplifting debut novel about facing the past to move forward – for just $1.99 . Overview In the tradition of Krist...
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FREE FRIDAY BOOK June 27, 2014: Today’s Free Fridays book selection is DECEIVE NOT MY HEART – a story of inescapable love and the first book in the Louisiana Ladies series from Shirlee Busbee. Overview Leonie Saint-Andre, the grand...
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How many times a day do you unlock your smartphone? I’d be willing to wager that for a great number of you, the answer is in the hundreds. Having your phone locked is responsible and pretty much required, while unlocking it is anno...
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Blackberry has all but abandoned the Playbook and very few apps are being released through official channels. The Waterloo based company recently signed a deal with Amazon to have the Amazon App Store be the sole distribution system wi...
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Everybody would like a personal assistant, and for many of us, Google Now is the closest thing we are going to get. Recently, with the app up, you could summon this digital Jeeves with the phrase: “OK Google.” Now that hotwor...
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As reported earlier today, Simon & Schuster announced that it is converting its pilot on library ebook lending to a national program. Frankly, for some time I thought this day would never come. Flash back to a wintry day in …
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Unless you’ve been following international ebook news (or reading this blog) you might not have heard of Bookmate. Primarily focused in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the third world, Bookmate is a lesser known competitor to Scribd an...
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Among the announcements at this year’s Google I/O conference was the news that App Indexing would be expanded to all developers and their apps. This update brings the concept of contextual and meaningful search to a whole new level...
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We are expecting to see more Google Maps announcements very soon with enhancements that include an entirely redesigned interface and clearer images, but the flagship navigation app wasn’t left out of the Google I/O conference excit...
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Fellow Netflix addicts will have already noticed that the icon has changed colour (from red to white), but a few other things have changed as well. The UI has been updated on Android to be a little darker (showing more shadowy tones), bu...
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Mobile gamers rejoice: Google Play Games was not left out of the spotlight yesterday at Google’s annual I/O conference. With several enhancements and additions, Google plans to take gaming to a whole new level (as well as rivaling ...
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One of the best things about the annual Google I/O conference is that many of the biggest and most active development houses save their coolest updates to share with that group. To that end, Hotel Tonight announced yesterday that they fe...
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Amazon expanded their publishing empire today with the launch of 4 new Kindle Worlds. The tech company announced today that they were opening up new opportunities for writers to contribute stories set in series created leading authors. F...
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[Press Release] Forgotten Books launches an unlimited download subscription service with nearly half a million titles for just $8.99 per month. Forgotten Books’ move to unlimited access provides users with more books than they coul...
