New Features Kindle Touch/4 driver: Upload cover thumbnails when sending books to device by USB to workaround Amazon bug of not displaying covers for sync-enabled books Support for updating metadata in FB2 files Set a different background color when ch…
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Somehow Smashwords seems to get all the press, but Wattpad is a force to be reckoned with on a worldwide basis. Here are some numbers: 3.2 million stories posted with another 300,000+ added every month Over 1 BILLION minutes spent on Wattpad each …
From the press release: Diesel eBooks has just rolled out a suite of new mobile products designed to deliver more choice and freedom, and to counteract what it sees as a totalitarian eBook environment which tethers customers to specific devices and eBo…
It all started harmlessly enough with Amazon’s Kindle with Special Offers. That’s the cheaper Kindle that displays ads when the device is in sleep mode or at the bottom of the screen when paging through the owner’s catalog of books. I…
From The Unoffical Apple Weblog: If you’re someone who does a lot of work on the road, and needs to reference PDF source material, you’ll find that QuickSearch PDF (US$4.99) from Olive Toast Software is the tool you didn’t realize y…
From an article by Farhad Manjoo in Slate: … It’s taken time for the magazine industry to catch up to the new iPad—only in the last few weeks have some of my favorite magazines, including the New Yorker, released apps that take advantage …
From Shelf Awareness: Waterstones, the last major independent bookstore chain in the U.K., will begin selling Amazon Kindles and e-books in its nearly 300 stores this fall, the companies announced today. Although Kindles are sold in a variety of bric…
Good article in yesterday’s Gigaom about the failure of Plastic Logic. So typical of start-ups, they had a great technology but were never able to execute. I remember being blown away by a demo of the product when it was first shown to the pu…
New Features EPUB Input: When setting the cover for a book that identifies its cover image, but not the html wrapper around the cover, try to detect and remove that wrapper automatically. When deleting books of a specific format, show the number of boo…
Do You Hide Your Reading Habits on an e-Reader?
It has been suggested that many women are gravitating towards e-readers to hide reading erotica or young adult fiction. Many males claim that they tend to read fantasy and science fiction on their ebook readers. Is this really the case?In a poll cited by The Daily Mail, 34% of a test group of 1,863 British subjects admitted to having used their e-reading devices to read erotic novels. 57% of the same group of adults said they had used theirs to hide the fact that they were reading young adult literature, like Harry Potter, and 28% to disguise their sci-fi book habit. Overall, 58% of respondents said they use their e-readers specifically to “hide” what they are reading.e-Readers often do a good job at obfuscating what you are reading more than a tangible book. If you are reading an erotica book on the bus or public transit may people will have a peek or look over your shoulder. With an e-reader you do gain the anonymity factor that many people desire when they are reading books and feeling guilty.Do you hide what you are reading on your ebook reader? If so, tell us why by dropping a comment below.
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