MobileRead Week in Review: 07/27 - 08/03

[Alexander Turcic]

In case you've missed any MobileRead news from this week, here is our usual roundup:

E-Book General - News

• Barnes & Noble between Scylla and Charybdis
• Amazon's love-hate for Kindle porn
• Overstock to Amazon: "If they go to 10 cents, I'll go to 9 cents"
• Australian Parliament recommends consumers be educated on circumventing geoblocking
• Rumor: Next-gen Kindle Fire HD tables - specs are in!

E-Book General - General Discussions

• Reader poll: Preorders
• So, did companies give up on two page devices?
• PDF is not an ebook format!
• Taking e-books to the beach - share your tips
• Back to school? Guide to the right e-reader
• How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
• Your local library and e-books
• DOJ: Let's force Apple to allow in-app links to bookstores

E-Book Readers - Android Devices

• Moon+ Reader Pro 50% off (Android)

E-Book Readers - Apple Devices

• Kindle for iOS 3.9 released

E-Book Readers - Kobo Reader

• Kobo expands footprint in Down Under

E-Book Software - Calibre

• calibre V0.9.41 released, includes new database backend for testing
• calibre V0.9.42 released

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• OpenInkpot section moved into the Archive