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

Welcome to another digest entry of MobileRead, where we transform the profound into the bite-sized.

E-Book General - News

• Google announces Literata, its new e-book typeface

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• June 2015 Book Club Nominations

08:07 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for June, 2015.

The nominations will run through midnight EST May 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days.

Book selection category for June is: Award Winners

In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).

How Does This Work?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.

How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.

How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.

How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.

How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.

When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.

The floor is open to nominations. The nominations are now closed. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.

Official choices with three nominations each:

(1) The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Goodreads | Amazon US

(2) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Goodreads | Amazon.com / Kobo CA / Google Play / Overdrive

(3) A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Goodreads | Amazon AU / Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible / Kobo

(4) Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive Audio / Overdrive eBook / Waterstones UK

(5) American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Goodreads | Amazon US / WorldCat

04:47 AM by Dopedangel in E-Book General | News

Google has announced a new typeface for Google Books: Literata.

Replacing Droid Serif as the default typeface for e-books via Google Books, Google says Literata is “perfect for long reads on all devices”.

Created in conjunction with TypeFace, Google began work on Literata in April 2014. The goal was a “new book typeface was needed that would provide an outstanding reading experience on a whole range of devices and high resolution screens running different rendering technologies”.

http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/05...book-typeface/

06:00 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 - News

• Hoopla now supports e-book lending for libraries
• Simon & Schuster Tries Geo-Targeting
• Southwest to Offer Kobo E-books Inflight

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• Vote for MobileRead's best fiction book of 1901-1910

09:16 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | Reading Recommendations

The first voting thread for choosing the ten best fiction books of the 20th Century. This thread covers 1901-1910.

VOTING IS NOW OPEN. Voting totals will be hidden until the poll ends on 15th June 2015(so that no-one is influenced by previously recorded votes), and voting will be anonymous.

You are, of course, welcome to make your choice known during in the discussion thread associated with this poll.

The nominations and nominators are:

1. 1901 Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), epub, mobi (pdurrant)
2. 1901 Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Gutenberg US (German), English eboook links (knuthmeyer)
3. 1902 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), epub, mobi (frddgls)
4. 1902 The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1843-1916), epub, mobi (sun surfer)
5. 1902 The Virginian by Owen Wister (1860-1938), epub, mobi (GA Russell)
6. 1903 The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1876-1916), epub, mobi (Synamon)
7. 1903 The Riddle of the Sands by Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922), epub, mobi (bfisher)
8. 1903 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1959-1932), Gutenberg (gmw)
9. 1904 The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1843-1916), epub, mobi (issybird)
10. 1904 Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Gutenberg (everlod)
11. 1906 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), Gutenberg US, No authorised ebook (obs20)
12. 1906 The Psammead Trilogy by Edith Nesbit (1858-1924), epub, mobi, Gutenberg, Gutenberg (EndlessWaves)
13. 1906 The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain (1835-1910), Gutenberg, Gutenberg (spellbanisher)
14. 1907 Before Adam by Jack London (1876-1916), epub, mobi (Ralph Sir Edward)
15. 1908 Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), epub, mobi (BearMountainBooks)
16. 1910 The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946),Gutenberg US, Amazon UK, AU PD (Lynx-lynx)
17. 1910 Where Angels Fear to Tread by Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), Gutenberg US, No authorised ebook (ccowie)
18. 1910 Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), Gutenberg US, Amazon UK (missimpossible)

All these books are in the USA public domain. For books in the European public domain, links are given to copies in our library, or elsewhere. Otherwise a link is given to the Project Gutenberg copy and to the title at Amazon UK.

Ideally, nominators should now post about their nominated book, and everyone is welcome to discuss the relative merits of the nominations

04:54 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News

Southwest to Offer Kobo E-books Inflight

E-book retailer Kobo is teaming with Global Eagle Entertainment and Bauer Communications to provide Southwest Airlines passengers complimentary in-flight access to e-books. The new inflight e-book platform launched on May 6 and provides access to full books, as well as excerpts, from hundreds of titles published by the major houses.

The new e-book service will include frontlist titles from Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, Kensington, S&S, HarperCollins, Open Road Media, Bauer Communications, and others. Southwest passengers can use the wi-fi on their mobile devices to connect with an entertainment portal to download the titles. If travelers don’t finish the e-book before they land, the Kobo service will deliver an email to them explaining how they can purchase the title.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...-inflight.html

04:54 AM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News

S&S Tries Geo-Targeting in New Marketing Outreach

In the latest effort to enhance book discovery, Simon & Schuster is partnering with mobile content delivery service Foli to offer customers complimentary access to a selection of full-text e-books in airports, museums and hotels around the country. Beginning May 15, David McCullough's The Wright Brothers will be a feature selection at the National Air & Space Museum and 50 venues around the country. Another 18 titles will be available though a select group of hotels and airport lounges.

The new service relies on Foli’s location-based wireless technology, which allows the the delivery of a single title, or group of titles, to a specific geographic location. In order to access the e-books in the program, customers can download the Foli app to their iOS or Android device and read a full-text version of any of the books.

The availability of the e-books will last for three days while they are being accessed at the targeted venue. The service also allows the consumer to buy the book outright at any time.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...erability.html

Not sure how successful it'll be, but it's interesting.

04:53 AM by jhowell in E-Book General | News

Received an email today stating that e-book lending now available from Hoopla Digital

Starting today, hoopla
– your all-in-one digital media library service –
is pleased to bring you its newest format additions:
eBooks & Comics!

For the love of reading
We’re especially proud that these new formats reflect what all hoopla library patrons want most in eBooks and Comics – the love of the digital page. The hoopla eBook focus is all about the love of reading; a centering on connecting people with favorite titles in the way they want, anywhere and anytime.

Action View
hoopla’s groundbreaking Action View, our built-in, enhanced viewing technology enables full-page and panel-by-panel viewing for immersive reading experience.

What are you waiting for? Experience, explore and enjoy your favorite movies, music … and now, eBooks and Comics … and more today.

Remember … update your hoopla app now (unless your device has an automatic updates).