eBook Rumors

Axios reports that libraries have now enlisted state governments to help them battle legacy publishers’ greedy push to force overpriced eBook titles on the public.

Android Authority lists the updates and add-ons that would make the Amazon Kindle eReaders perfect.

CengNews lists the best eBook Readers for the year 2021. (If you’re planning to gift one over the holiday season.)

The Baltimore Sun writes about the sad state of legacy publishing that appears to be having trouble pushing their outdated business model onto the ever-changing hi-tech social media world. The article exposes the deep thinking that goes into their publishing process–they guess.

Instead of just selling compelling books at reasonable prices, they try to game a system they do not understand. Similar to the old days, minus the outrageous profits.

The Kathmandu Post writes about the inevitability of eBooks and digital publishing.

Here are some web sites with Free eBooks to help pass the time while social distancing, and to stock your eLibrary. You’ll find a wide selection of classics, contemporary, and non-fiction titles. Bookmark these pages.

Manybooks.net This has become my favorite with thousands of free titles in a wide variety of trouble-free formats.
GetFreeeBooks.com Just what it says.  A huge selection.
Project Gutenberg  Their mission statement: to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. Too many titles to count…
G. Wells Taylor has several FREE and/or affordable titles/sequels that are receiving great reviews at GWellsTaylor.com. Multiple formats available.
Smashwords offers a long list of FREE eBook titles in formats to suit your new eBook reader.

GoodeReader writes about changes at eBook subscription service Scribd.

Neowin introduces the new Calibre 5.31.1 update for the excellent open source eBook library management platform.

FREE ~ Book1: THE URN ~ FREE

The Urn is Available for FREE at:
Amazon, Google Play, Apple Books
Barnes & Noble, Kobo

Dracula of the Apes picks up where Bram Stoker’s Dracula left off and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes began.

Dracula’s Gypsy servant Horvat has the special duty of preserving his master’s body if the worst should ever happen—and the worst has happened!
Van Helsing’s team of vampire hunters has decapitated the count and reduced him to dust and ashes.
Horvat’s instructions are simple. Dracula’s remains must be stored in a special urn and bathed in blood while en route to South Africa where a mysterious ally will see to his resurrection.
But fate steps in off the African coast and a shipwreck casts Horvat and his precious burden into the jungle setting of another literary classic.

GoodeReader reports that the Tolino Vision 6 eReader will be released next week.