Five Billion Years Of Solitude Epub 12
Dorian Blessing
Amy Watson pulled together disparate reports in the public domain, and her December 2018 report suggested a market share of 19 per cent for ebooks. This aligns closely with our own off-the-record briefings from trade and academic publishers.
As Fable Grows, the Mobile Book Club Platform Adds Personalization Features
27 November 2023 (Publishers Weekly)
The mobile platform for online book clubs has added a personalized book discovery and discussion feed called Fable For You, bringing the platform closer to a social media service.
This app wants reading to be a social experience
23 November 2023 (Mashable)
Featuring thousands of book clubs and a personalized feed, Fable is an answer to those looking to share their reading experiences. Reading has become a social media-adjacent activity as much as it has always been an individual one.
Older Nook e-readers will not be able to buy ebooks anymore
15 November 2023 (Good E-Reader)
Barnes and Noble have announced that they are suspending the service of older Nook e-readers. Barnes and Noble want people to upgrade to newer Nook e-readers.
Harry Potter ebooks now available on Kobo Plus
9 November 2023 (Good E-Reader)
The beloved fantasy books will be available to Kobo Plus subscribers in English, Dutch and French starting November 8th. Dutch, Belgian and French booklovers can access Kobo Plus via the Kobo Books App for iOS or Android and directly on Kobo e-readers.
Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Use of Pirated Ebooks Tech Giants
26 October 2023 (Ticker)
The plaintiffs claim that Meta, Microsoft, and Bloomberg trained their LLMs using a dataset provided EleutherAI, which allegedly contained information scraped from around 183,000 pirated ebooks.
VAT abolished on e-books and audiobooks in Ireland
13 October 2023 (Good E-Reader)
Ireland announced it is finally doing away with the VAT that has so far been applicable to e-books and audiobooks so far, independent.ie reported.
Why You Should Try Oyster, The Netflix For EBooks
12 October 2023 (Cellular News)
One of the primary benefits of Oyster is the unlimited access it offers to its library of eBooks. No longer do you have to worry about the costs associated with purchasing each eBook individually. For a monthly subscription fee, you can dive into a wealth of literary gems.
Six-Month Sentence For Sharing Pirated eBooks & Paywalled News Articles
28 June 2023 (TorrentFreak)
A man who shared copies of more than a thousand eBooks and articles obtained from a paywalled news site has been handed a six-month suspended sentence by a court in Denmark. Prosecutions for sharing paywalled articles are extremely rare but in this case supported by a laundry list of additional offenses including fraud and movie piracy.
Lenovo Smart Paper goes on sale in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
12 June 2023 (GizmoChina)
The Lenovo Smart Paper can be used comfortably to read in dark or dimly lit environments, thanks to its front light. You can also turn off the light and use ambient light for reading content. The tablet has a cover that puts the device in sleep mode whenever the screen is covered. If the Smart Paper is not strictly speaking a reader, know that it still has access to the Ebooks.com platform and its two million books.
High Prices Make Textbook Piracy Acceptable to Most Students
4 June 2023 (Torrent Freak)
Prison threats are not much of a deterrent but they are willing to change if prices drop significantly.
Over a million e-books hacked from Korean e-book store Aladin, investigations underway
22 May 2023 (Good E-Reader)
Aladin posted a notice on its website under the name of CEO Choi Woo-kyung, expressing deep apologies to the publishers and authors for the leakage of e-book products.
New ChatGPT-based e-Book Generator tool from Ink AI can create full-length e-books easily
18 May 2023 (Good E-Reader)
Apart from its ability to create content based on your ideas and concepts, the e-Book Generator also comes with several advanced features as well. Those include the ability to generate tables of contents as well as incorporating graphics and text. These apart, the tool will also let you create content in downloadable PDF file formats or FlipBooks. Then there are also the instant e-book illustrations as well that you can use besides having the ability to embed external links within your e-book.
Z-Library eBook site disrupted again by FBI domain seizures
5 May 2023 (Bleeping Computer)
Besides the b-ok.lat, booksc.me, and b-ok.as (first spotted by TorrentFreak), the list of domains taken down in this new round of seizures also includes singlelogin.me, which was previously the main URL used for logging in and registering new accounts.
E INK is on a hiring spree to beef up their workforce
20 March 2023 (Good E-Reader)
Their screens can be found on the Kindle e-readers, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Boox, Remarkable and other major brands. They recently released new colour e-paper solutions which many companies will be incorporating into new products later this year.
Libro.fm Plans Expansion to U.K., Australia, and New Zealand
9 March 2023 (Publishers Weekly)
Digital audiobook platform Libro.fm, which directs a portion of each audiobook sale to a customer-selected independent bookstore, is launching service in the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand in July. The employee-owned North American company will work directly with commercial publishers
Huawei MatePad Paper Receives Update with Enhanced E-Reader and Note-Taking Capabilities
7 March 2023 (GizmoChina)
Huawei has recently launched a new update for its MatePad Paper Ink Tablet, which includes an exciting e-reader app that has been developed in partnership with Palm Reading. This new app promises to provide users with the best e-book reading experience possible on the MatePad Paper tablet.
Z-library is Back
27 February 2023 (The Gazelle)
After getting shut down by US authorities, the well-known e-book piracy website has returned to the public access internet with unique domains for each user. While never truly offline, Z-library had been pushed into the dark web until recently due to legal repercussions. A Z-library blog post published on Feb. 11 announced its comeback on public-access Internet.
Oral Argument Set in Internet Archive Copyright Case
21 February 2023 (Publishers Weekly)
Months after a final round of reply briefs was filed, a federal judge is now ready to hear oral arguments for summary judgment in a closely watched copyright case filed by four major publishers against the Internet Archive over its program to scan and lend library books.
Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI
14 February 2023 (Wired)
After a backlash, Spotify paused an arrangement that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.
Korean Textbooks to go digital in 2025
23 February 2023 (The Korea Herald)
The ministry said it would begin with three subjects: English, Mathematics and Information. Other subjects will be decided in May. Digital conversion of paper-based books to electronic books will be carried out by developing tailor-made technologies for each subject, helping students and teachers learn and teach the courses efficiently.
VERMONT STATE UNIVERSITY GETS RID OF PHYSICAL LIBRARY FOR DIGITAL-ONLY, DESPITE PROTESTS
14 February 2023 (Book Riot)
Administrators apologized for the way the decision was communicated, announced late in the day, but they will not be changing course. They said the decision came as a result of a student survey that said most students were satisfied with digital-only resources.
Storytel prepares an all-you-can-eat global roll-out
12 February 2023 (The New Publishing Standard)
According to the Storytel international landing page, Storytel is now in 26 markets. In fact, of course, that should be 27, because while Storytel shuttered its Russia operation, Storytel is in 26 other countries as listed, and also in the USA, under the brand Audiobooks.com.
Storytel shares fall 12% in a week
10 February 2023 (Simply Wall St)
Institutional investors have a fair amount of stake in Storytel. This implies the analysts working for those institutions have looked at the stock and they like it. But just like anyone else, they could be wrong.
Public Libraries Lend One Billion Titles with the Libby Reading App
25 January 2023 (Press Release)
Libraries played a critical role during COVID, providing essential services even while most buildings were closed. Consequently, more people than ever discovered the benefits of borrowing ebooks and digital audiobooks from their public library.
E Ink Gallery 3 color e-paper expected to start a new era of color e-readers and e-notes
16 January 2023 (Good E-Reader)
Color content, be it illustrations or comic books, all look markedly better on Gallery 3, so much so that color e-paper is finally able to do justice to the color magazine segment.
Legible Provides Corporate Update and Announces $550,000 Unit Offering Private Placement
16 January 2023 (Business Wire)
In addition to raising capital, the Canadian startup will be busy this year: Release of a premier membership plan featuring unlimited search and reading via our AI recommendation engine, branded as Librarian AI. Introduction of audiobooks. Launch of an app for offline reading.
Global Book Reading Survey Results Released
16 January 2023 (PR underground)
English-speaking book readers around the world say they plan to read more in 2023 than they did in 2022. Although eBooks and even audio books are increasingly popular, paper books remain the preferred format for readers around the world. This according to a survey of 945 book readers in 56 countries, conducted by THGM Writing Services.