01:07 PM by AnemicOak in E-Book General | News

Amazon just removed one of the biggest roadblocks for sharing things you've bought with someone else in your family — at least for some of the things you buy off Amazon. Alongside its new line of Kindle announcements, it's introducing a new feature called Family Library that lets people in the same household share books, audiobooks, Prime Instant videos, and any apps or games that were bought off Amazon's Appstore. Not included on that list are things like purchased music, movies, or TV shows.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/17/63...ture-explained

12:12 PM by TCSimpson in E-Book General | News

Seeing that the Amazon/Hachette dispute and this stuff in general always generates a robust debate, placing this here seems a good fit.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/au...n-board.html-0 Let the opinions flow.

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

What was going on this week at MobileRead? Here's your chance to catch-up if you missed something!

E-Book General - News

• Charting Nook's Decline
• Pew Report on Younger Americans and Public Libraries

08:00 AM by ElspethB in E-Book General | News

An overview of a recent Pew report.

Some interesting findings here, including the fact that 88% of American adults under age 30 read at least one book in the past year versus 79% of those age 30 and older. Also, the use of e-books among young adults has increased.

08:00 AM by charmian in E-Book General | News

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014...nooks-decline/

Nook's revenues have been decreasing, but lately they have also decreased their losses.

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

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for our weekly roundup of what's new and interesting in the world of e-books.

E-Book General - News

• Joan Rivers Book Sales Spike 70,750 Percent

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• Listen Up - We've got a brand new audiobook forum
• A Change in the "Deals, Freebies, and Resources (No Self-Promotion)" Stickies

11:10 AM by WT Sharpe in Miscellaneous | Announcements

In the interest of making things easier for everyone, there has been a change in the way the book deal stickies for the various genres work in the Deals, Freebies, and Resources (No Self-Promotion) forum. Whereas before they all remained active for only one month, now each sticky will have a one year time limit. You will notice the change in the titles of the threads immediately. That means all of you who have been creating new threads each month and asking for them to be made stickies will now only have to do that one a year on the first of January.

09:57 AM by Froide in E-Book General | News

Lewis, Andy. (09/04/2014 11:53 PM PST). "Joan Rivers Book Sales Spike 70,750 Percent (Yes, you read that number correctly)." The Hollywood Reporter

Familiar story, in most areas of arts and entertainment. For example:

• "Michael Jackson Has Sold More Albums Since His Death Than Over The Last 13 Years of His Life"
• "Posthumous fame of Vincent van Gogh"

About the image:
"Joan Rivers 2010 - David Shankbone" by David Shankbone - Cropped from Joan Rivers at Musto's 25th Anniversary. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.