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This year is our tenth anniversary, and by way of the powers vested in us by you we are declaring Saturday, June 23rd, 2012 to be Unshelved Day @ ALA. On that day, wear your Unshelved gear. It can be anything we've ever made, vintage or current: t-shirts, hats, jackets, and there probably still a few WWDD tank tops floating around out there. You can even carry one of our books around.

If you all do this simple... Read more...

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Unshelved on Monday, May 21, 2012

Unshelved, Today, 1:14pm

Oh Canada (and New Book Bundle)

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Gene and I just returned from unseasonably warm Winnipeg, where we spoke at the Manitoba Library Conference. The previous month Gene was in beautiful Jasper, speaking to the Alberta Library Association. In both places everyone was super friendly, but one comment was made again and again: "we'd order more of your stuff, but shipping is too expensive!" Well, international shipping is expensive (and we don't even charge you our full cost!) But in honor... Read more...

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Fierce Reads

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Our sponsor this week is Fierce Reads, four books from Macmillan Kids featuring fierce heroines. Click through to find out more about Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, Struck by Jennifer Bosworth, and Of Poseidon by Anna Banks, including information about their Feirce Reads author tour, coming soon to a bookstore near you! Read more...

Unshelved, Today, 1:14pm

How Amazon is changing the rules for books and movies

Nice complimentary article about Amazon.Money quote:

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Amazon's Kindle family of electronic reading devices gives it the ability to offer books in a way that hasn't been available before. The company can crank out short works, such as Ragsdale's book. It can mine sales data from its international operations to find bestsellers that it then translates and sells to its English-speaking customers, as it did with "The Hangman's Daughter," a German work of historical fiction by Oliver Pötzsch.

Amazon is trying to change the rules in Hollywood as well. The company is creating a new model for making movies and television programs, tapping its vast Web presence to crowdsource concepts. Anyone can upload a screenplay or television pilot script to the Amazon Studios Web site, where Amazon and the community it's developed weed out the weakest and refine the most commercial, before the company commits significant financial resources to production.
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MobileRead Forums, Today, 12:40pm

PRS-350 problem with syncing

hi I have a sony PRS-350 ereader having problem trying to download books which i have purchases from the sony store . They download but keep freezing up when it try to sync . Can anyone help me please ?????
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MobileRead Forums, Today, 12:40pm

Happy Feet: Tips For Healthier Running

Have you thought about switching to barefoot running? New York Times exercise columnist Gretchen Reynolds did — and promptly injured herself. She details what she did wrong — and how to keep your own feet healthy — in her new book, The First 20 Minutes. Read more...

Books, Today, 11:45am

paidContent 2012: The app economy – holy grail or dead end?

Moderator, Tom Krazit, Senior Writer, paidContent/GigaOM: Rob Malda, Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large, Labs Team, Washington Post: Have projects on all sides of the debate. Have apps and HTML5 and agnostic as to which to use. Pick whatever work with the content. If want your stuff to work everywhere then HTML5 is the way to [...] Read more...

TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics, Today, 11:44am

Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO

Section: yro, Department: death-taxes-and-lawsuits
Slashdot, Today, 11:40am

Free (Kindle DRM-free) Berserk by Tim Lebbon [Horror Award-Nominee Author]

Firefox on the netbook, as it turns out, has this nasty habit of eating windows to the taskbar so that I can no longer access them even though they still exist, taking everything I had open in them until I force quit/reload and maybe get to use the Restore Session function.

In any case, a light dip into the slushpile today as I've got 15 minutes.

Today's not-quite-sfnal not-really-backlist treat is a horror novel by multiple award nominee/winner, whose other books I've bought at Fictionwise (okay, only one of them, but it said it was a British Fantasy Award finalist or somesuch).

*Berserk* by Bram Stoker & British Fantasy Award-winner Tim Lebbon (ISFDB (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6715), Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Lebbon)) was originally small-pressed by Necessary Evil in 2005 and picked up by Dorchester/Leisure in 2006, now republished courtesy of Books of the Dead Press which is run by a Canadian, IIRC.

Free without DRM for who knows how long @ Amazon... Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 11:20am

KDE Announces Partner Network

Section: linux, Department: building-infrastructure
Slashdot, Today, 11:20am

Free (Amazon) Assorted Titles May 23rd listed separately

Don't have much time to post today but it seems most promos are repeats anyway. Here's one with mixed reviews. Third book will be available in June.

The Fringe Worlds (Human Chronicles #1) by T.R. Harris
http://www.amazon.com/Fringe-Worlds-Human-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B005VGB16A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337785033&sr=8-1

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Adam Cain is an alien with an Attitude!

After all, how would you feel if you were abducted by aliens and transported into a strange, new universe away from your home, your family -- everything familiar to you? Would it make you happy? Not likely!

Now imagine you're stronger, faster and more coordinated than every alien you encounter. Would you start kicking some ass? Of course you would!

This is the story of Human superiority in the galaxy, a gritty, realistic profile of a young Navy SEAL who doesn't like aliens very much -- and he makes them pay for disrupting his happy life back on Earth!
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MobileRead Forums, Today, 11:04am

Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri

Section: search, Department: dave-what-are-you-doing
Slashdot, Today, 10:58am

Italian Constitiution crippled by DRM

Got the following email from Paolo Amoroso: Italian engineering Professor JuanCarlos De Martin @demartin has found that the Italian Constitution downloadable from the official government site is effectively crippled with DRM. It’s a PDF document that prevents content copying (not even for accessibility) and search engine indexing. Some details are available in this blog post: http://ildebugger.com/2012/05/23/la-costituzione-drm-governo/ [...] Read more...

TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics, Today, 10:45am

IBM bans Apple's Siri. Concerns about intrusiveness and security breaches.

Image: http://cdn2.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/siri2.jpg

IBM bans Apple's Siri from its Networks because of concerns about intrusiveness and possible breaches of security.

*Wired Magazine*
*IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips

By Robert McMillan
Email Author
May 22, 2012 |
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"If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phones voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isnt welcome on Big Blues networks.

The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina. And the story of what really happens to all of your Siri-launched searches, e-mail messages and inappropriate jokes is a bit of a black box.

IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MITs Technology Review this week that her company has banned Siri outright because, according to the magazine, The company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere.

It turns out that Horan is right to worry. In fact,... Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 10:41am

paidContent 2012: The new publishers

Moderator, Larry Kramer, President and Publisher, USA Today: Jim Bankoff, Chairman, CEO, Vox Media: Only in the digital arena in sports and tech coverage. Started with advantage of starting with clean slate, but have the disadvantage of not having the cash flow of older companies. Model is to find web-native talent and empower them. [...] Read more...

TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics, Today, 10:38am

Options For Good (Not Expensive) Office Backbone For a Small Startup

Section: it, Department: office-with-small-o-is-fine
Slashdot, Today, 10:33am

paidContent 2012: The new publishing landscape

Moderator, Robert Andrews, Senior Editor, International, paidContent/GigaOM Nick Bogaty, Director of Busines Development, Digital Publishing Group, Adobe Systems: Started software project with Wired three years ago. Great initial excitement when iPad come out. But now are at the point of growing real businesses with real content, real advertising and real subscribers. Provide software creation tools [...] Read more...

TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics, Today, 10:13am

Chrome Browser Usage Artificially Boosted, Says Microsoft

Section: technology, Department: depends-who's-counting
Slashdot, Today, 10:11am

How to add books to Library Through Calibre

Hi,

I'm sorry if the question is simple but I cannot figure out!

My Calibre library is about 5 Gb (since there are a lot of PDF manuals).
I switched the internal SD with the External one using the trick (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168640) so now I have 32Gb of Internal storage.

I read the thread Edge & Calibre workflow (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=177506) but in my case I cannot use that system because my lib is more than 2Gb of Dropbox cloud space).

I try to simply connect my EE to PC, open Calibre (which correctly recognize it) and "send books to device"...but when I move to EE the library is empty.

So my questions are:

1. Where the books transferred by Calibre are been stored?
2. How can I put them into the EE Library?

Thanks in advance for the suggestions.
Daniele. Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 9:58am

paidContent 2012: Q&A with Bob Sauerberg

Moderator: Staci C. Kramer, Editor and Senior Writer, paidContent/GigaOm Bob Sauerberg, President, Conde Nast: Conde Nast needed to think differently and figure out how to go digital. Gourmet digital was their leap forward and now has 1 million plus users. Digital magazines have been a great business. Is a stand-alone business now. Half a million [...] Read more...

TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics, Today, 9:34am

SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme

Section: yro, Department: always-use-bitcoins-for-lego-arbitrage
Slashdot, Today, 9:28am

E-book readers as stand alone device

Wonder how e-readers work without the desktops the force u to use (that dont work for me )
Specialy after a reset, does your e-reader work as mass storge device ?
Yes you cant read drm books ,but can you put books as a file on them ?
No test give any info on that subject .
Why i want to know ? Simple i have no WC or MAC :D So there desktops dont work.
My (old) nokia phone connects as a mass storage to my computer, so i can copy the books to it Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 9:13am

Changes Planned at N.Y. Public Library Are Assailed

NY Times – “The New York Public Library came under fire Tuesday night during a panel discussion held to debate its $300 million plan to remake its flagship Fifth Avenue branch. We’re being told that the only way to save the library is to rip out its innards,” said David Nasaw, a panelist and a [...] Read more...

Library Stuff, Today, 9:08am

Further: Beyond the Threshold by Chris Roberson

Just noticed this new space opera by an increasingly well-known author is only £1.99 on Amazon UK and $3.19 on Amazon US. It's only just out.

http://www.amazon.com/Further-Beyond-the-Threshold-ebook/dp/B005ML3BW6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337778373&sr=8-2

Book description:

Humankind is spread across three thousand light years in a myriad of worlds and habitats known as the Human Entelechy. Linked by a network of wormholes with Earth at its center, it is the world Captain RJ Stone awakens to after a twelve-thousand-year cryogenic suspension.

Stone soon finds himself commanding the maiden voyage of the first spacecraft to break the light speed barrier: the FTL Further. In search of extraterrestrial intelligence, the landing party explores a distant pulsar only to be taken prisoner by the bloodthirsty Iron Mass, a religious sect exiled from the Entelechy millennia before. Now Stone and his crew must escape while they try to solve the riddle of the planets network of stone towers... Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 9:08am

paidContent 2012: Tablets – not just an iPad world

James McQuivey, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research: It is an iPad world right now. 34% of the US population will have a tablet by 2016. That’s 112.5 million tablets. No other device in the history of consumer electronics has achieved such a high penetration in such a short time. Future will not be made only [...] Read more...

TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics, Today, 9:08am

New Entries to the National Recording Registry

LOC – “Recordings by Donna Summer, Prince and Dolly Parton Named to the National Recording Registry. The voices of former slaves, the sounds of Native American culture, the creative wordplay of “Rapper’s Delight,” Donna Summer’s electric 1977 hit and the only surviving recording of a stage icon are among the sound recordings selected for induction [...] Read more...

Library Stuff, Today, 9:03am

Librarian, Distressed

The Millions – “If you’ve spent any time at all in a public library in the past couple of years — (in the last decade I’ve worked at four separate libraries, both public and academic) — you’ll notice that the focus is changing. Less hushed repose and reading and more shuffling through bins for DVD [...] Read more...

Library Stuff, Today, 8:58am

Free Kindle ebook. Award-Winning Thriller "WHITE HEAT" Begins where the 'Rodney King

“Marks writes fearlessly about his characters, and he also writes fearlessly about prejudice, rage and injustice.” – Jon P. Bloch, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer, The Kindle Book Review

“...once you start reading this searing, driving novel, you will be compelled to finish it in one long, satisfying gulp.” – Amazon reviewer M2

P.I. Duke Rogers finds himself in a combustible situation in this racially charged thriller. His case might have to wait... The immediate problem: getting out of South Central Los Angeles in one piece during the 1992 "Rodney King" riots and that's just the beginning of his problems.
http://www.amazon.com/White-Heat-Rogers-Series-ebook/dp/B007SIR8QG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1337777156&sr=1-1
*Get your free Kindle copy of award-winning novel WHITE HEAT by Paul D. Marks – Wednesday – Friday May 23rd-25th only! *
Image: http://www.pauldmarks.com/whiteheatcover4ebook2.jpg Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 8:54am

Calibre default reader vs. Kindle app question

I'd like to use the Calibre reader on my MBP to read books. Currently, when I open an ebook in Calibre the Kindle application launches and the book is opened in Kindle instead. How do I change the default reader?

Thanks! Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 8:52am

Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon

Section: science, Department: reopening-the-tang-mines
Slashdot, Today, 8:48am

Plant Eater's Paradise: 2012's Best Summer Cookbooks

These cookbooks take fruits and vegetables fresh from the field and the farm stand to delectable extremes. Writer T. Susan Chang has gleaned 10 top cookbooks that will make even the most devoted carnivore slip into accidental vegetarianism. Read more...

Books, Today, 8:42am

Jailbreaking Kindle 5.1 Unsuccessful

Hello all,

I am trying to jailbreak my Kindle Touch using this method (http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Touch_Hacking#data.tar.gz_method). I am not having any luck though it seems like I am following the steps exactly. When I restart my Kindle, it reboots normally and never enters into diagnostic mode. What am I doing wrong? Has this happened to anyone else?

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MobileRead Forums, Today, 8:29am

Next page / view

I have been using Calibre for some time but now I mainly use it as a library. I am using Kindle PC to read and there is only one reason. Frequently at the top or bottom I get only half a line (half the font). This NEVER happens on Kindle PC.
See attachment. Is their a solution for that. I find it extremely annoying.

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MobileRead Forums, Today, 8:23am

Legislation In New York To Ban Anonymous Speech Online

Section: yro, Department: enjoy-funding-the-internet-anonymity-police
Slashdot, Today, 8:13am

Scientists Turn DNA Into Rewritable Memory

"DNA, the strings of chemicals which define us, acts like a kind of read-only biological data storage device. Now, though, synthetic biologists have managed to turn DNA into a form or rewritable memory, just like that in our computers.
While it's not the first rewritable biological storage system to be madeothers have used proteins which bond to DNA to perform a similar functionit is the first time such an effect has been achieved in the DNA itself, and it could make synthetic digital cells a possibility.

To achieve it the researchers, from Stanford University, spliced genetic elements from a bacterium-infecting virus into the DNA of Escherichia coli. What they were left with is a system which contains a stretch of DNA flanked by sites which indicate to enzymes that the DNA can be "cut" and then "pasted" in reverse orientationand that's just what happens. In fact, the process can be performed over and over, with the team so far demonstrating that is can be done at least... Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 7:20am

maureen551

please can any one tell me what I have to do to register a second hand e reader, I have registered the product, but it still shows as registered to the previous owner....help:help: Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 7:09am

'Bodies': 'Wolf Hall' Sequel Outshines Original

The second novel in Hilary Mantel's trilogy positions Thomas Cromwell as Henry VIII's trusted consigliere and a specialist at getting unwanted wives out of the way. But if the machinations in Bring Up the Bodies are of the cruelest kind, Mantel's language couldn't be more sublime. Read more...

Books, Today, 7:00am

Spotify valued at $4,000,000,000 USD

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/spotify-is-raising-millions-in-a-deal-that-would-value-it-at-4-billion

Other interesting stuff:

*Spotify Revenue:*

2008: $0.612 million USD
2009: $18.1 million USD
2010: $99 million USD
2011: $236.4 million USD
2012: projected at $889 million USD

*Spotify paid subscribers:*

January, 2010:------------ 250,000 paid subscribers
March 17, 2010:----------- 320,000
July 20, 2010: ---------------- 500,000
December 8, 2010: ------ 750,000
March 8, 2011:--------------- 1,000,000
July 14, 2011: -----------------1,600,000
Sept 21, 2011: ---------------- 2,000,000
Nov 23, 2011: ------------------2,500,000
Jan 26, 2012: -------------------3,000,000 paid subscribers

Spotify pays about $0.0055 per stream.
About 165 streams = 1 Itunes download (revenue wise). Read more...

MobileRead Forums, Today, 6:45am