A new survey from USA Today and book discovery website Bookish finds that U.S. adults who own a tablet or e-reader read more books than the device-less. The survey also found differences in reading habits between adults under 40 and adults over 40.
The survey polled 1,000 adults nationwide and an additional 819 adults who own an e-reader or tablet. Overall, it found that 40 percent of adults — and 46 percent of those between 18 and 39 — owned a tablet or e-reader, “doubling the numbers from less than two years ago.”
Thirty-five percent of those who owned a device said they read more since getting it. Of the device owners, those ages 18-39 had read an average of 21 books in the past year, while respondents ages 40 and over had read an average of 16 books in the past year.
Those who didn’t own a device read…
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The link below is to an article that reports on the latest update to the free audiobook website LibriVox.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/free-public-domain-audiobook-site-gets-update_b78477
The link below is to an article that reports on Apple’s appeal against the sentence handed down in the ebooks price fixing lawsuit.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/apple-appeals-ebook-collusion-charges_b41203
The link below is to an article that looks at ebook subscription services and in particular Oyster and Scribd.
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http://www.futurebook.net/content/playing-oyster-card
By now most people familiar with books and authors will know that Tom Clancy has died. Tom Clancy wrote the Jack Ryan series of novels, including ‘The Hunt for Red October,’ ‘Patriot Games’ and ‘Clear and Present Danger.’ He was perhaps the author I favoured most and he will be sadly missed.
The links below are to articles that report on the life and death of Tom Clancy.
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– http://www.npr.org/2013/10/02/228485169/tom-clancy-dies-left-indelible- mark-on-thriller-genre
– http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/02/228457438/tom-clancy-master-of-military- techno-thrillers-dies
– http://www.npr.org/2013/10/03/228815430/remembering-tom-clancy-faulkner-in-a-flak-jacket
– http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/03/228758394/book-news-tom-clancy-remembered-as-the-father-of-a-genre
– http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/03/tom-clancy-top-five-novels
– http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2013/oct/03/tom-clancy-video-games
– http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/03/tom-clancy-novelist-business-franchise
– http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/02/tom-clancy-dies-aged-66
The link below is to another article that reports on Scribd’s new ebook subscription service.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/04/229207519/new-e-book-lending-service-aims-to-be-netflix-for-books
There seems to be no end of ebook subscription services at the moment. Now Scribd has got in on the act, introducing a new subscription service for a monthly fee. The link below is to an article that reports on the service being provided by Scribd.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/scribd-introduces-ebook-subscription-service_b41104
Probably a good thing because nobody was going to buy it anyway: Sony (s SNE) is not going to sell its new e-reader, the PRS-T3 released earlier this month, in the United States.
The company cited “the region’s market changes” — i.e., competition from Amazon (s AMZN), Barnes & Noble (s BKS) and Kobo — as the reason it won’t launch here. Sony’s e-reader market share in the U.S. has dwindled to negligible levels in recent years.
Here’s Sony’s rationale, in a statement via The Digital Reader:
“Sony will not be offering the Reader PRS-T3 in the United States. In response to the region’s market changes, Sony will be focusing instead on mobile and tablet devices, including the Xperia Tablet Z and Xperia Z smartphone. Digital reading and ebooks remain an important priority for Sony. Reader Store will still help book lovers find and read their next story, anytime…
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Over at Metafilter they’re talking about this New Yorker article, in which book critic Lee Siegel explains why he doesn’t want to write negative book reviews anymore (here’s the MF thread). I posted my thoughts on the matter there, but it’s worth posting them here too. Here’s what I said.
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I was a professional critic of film and music for a number of years and I didn’t shy away from giving negative reviews when I felt negative about the work. But it’s worth noting that when I was doing that work, I wasn’t given the option of what work to review; particularly with film, my job was to review every film that came into town. With music, what I reviewed was mostly assigned, not chosen.
These days people are interested in knowing my reviews of books (particularly in science fiction and fantasy). By and large with books…
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