01:17 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

The US Supreme Court has ruled on a case that has been extensively discussed at MobileRead.

I'm very pleased to say that they have "ruled that you do have the legal right to resell legally purchased content that was produced outside the US." (A 6:3 verdict.)

This is a very important decision that will affect our US members, and may well affect non-US members if the ruling is taken into account in deciding similar questions in other jurisdictions.

You can read the full ruling here, or read about it at The Digital Reader here.

06:16 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

JManga, a site that offered digital versions of Japanese Manga books is shutting down.

Users of the service lose all access to their purchased content at the end of May 2013.

Since users were never able to download their purchased content, this represents a complete loss of access.

News from The Digital Reader

Original announcement

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

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

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• MobileRead Dev Hub closes doors on April 1st

05:35 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

We started the MobileRead Dev Hub with the mission to provide MobileRead developers with free disk space, a revision control system (SVN) and a bug tracker (Trac). At that time, free options where limited.

Fortunately things have improved greatly since. It's easy to host new projects on free and reliable platforms, including those that we greatly recommend such as GitHub and Bitbucket.

We decided that the Dev Hub served its purpose and that the time has come to close its doors. We will therefore disconnect the software versioning and bug tracking system by April 1, 2013. Files currently stored on the Dev site will be archived for a limited time afterwards in case anybody needs to access them.

Cheers,
Alex

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Previously at MobileRead:

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• Scheduled Maintenance 03/10 @ 05:00 EDT

09:44 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

We will be performing scheduled maintenance to run a few security updates.

Maintenance work has been scheduled for Sunday, March 10th, 05:00 AM - 05:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00)*.

For status updates, please follow our Status blog.

Cheers,

Alexander
MobileRead Team

* that's right - Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, meaning at least some of you'll spring ahead and move your clocks forward one hour (and, unfortunately, lose that hour of sleep)

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Been so busy reading e-books that you haven't had time to keep up on the week's news? Here's some of what you've been missing:

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• March 2013 Special Run-Off Vote

06:49 PM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

March 2013 Mobile Read Book Club Special Run-Off Vote

Since this month's vote resulted in a tie, we are having a Special Run-Off Vote between the two leading candidates. I will not be voting in this poll unless my vote is needed to break a tie. This poll will be open for 3 days, and all MobileRead members are invited to participate. This is a visible, multiple-choice poll.

We will start the discussion thread for this book on March 20th. Select from the following Two Choices:

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
MobileRead Library - Mobi Format / MobileRead Library - EPub Format