MobileRead ForumsMobileRead - the resource for mobile geeks seeking information and advice for keeping their gadgets happy.File rot - NYTime's David Pogue wants to interview you for TV!- August 10, 2008 http:www.mobileread.comuploadnews2007-11kindlehand.jpgWell-known New York Time personal technology writer, David Pogue, is doing some interviews in advance of a CBS News Sunday Morning show about how people are losing important personal data. The reason Always changing data formats and storage media issues. While he doesn't specifically mention DRM issues, I'm sure it will be deserving of a prime spot in his story. Most likely, there are readers here with legitimate collections of personal...http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27583&goto=newpost Kindle coming to Germany this fall (yes, it's a rumor)- August 9, 2008 http:www.mobileread.comuploadnews2008-08_0E613D6A-22B7-4B26-B8D5-8F6E194C9B2C_Picture.jpgDon't place your bets just yet, but rumors are beginning to swirl about Amazon's Kindle going overseas - to Germany! Georg Meck of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reports: ---Quote--- Im Herbst soll es so weit sein, ist in der Verlagsszene zu hren. Ein groer Auftritt Amazons zur Frankfurter Buchmesse Anfang Oktober wird vermutet. Der Geschftsfhrer von Amazon in Deutschland, Ralf Kleber,...http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27563&goto=newpost MobileRead Week in Review: 0802 - 0809- August 9, 2008 Welcome to another digest entry of MobileRead, where we transform the profound into the bite-sized. E-Book General - News and Commentary News4Me: Readius goes on trial with Deutsche Telekom (http:www.mobileread.comforumsshowthread.phpt=27327) Stanza Desktop available for Windows (http:www.mobileread.comforumsshowthread.phpt=27446) Libraries step into the age of ...iPod (http:www.mobileread.comforumsshowthread.phpt=27485) Textbook Torrent is back - more headache for publishers...http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27551&goto=newpost Feedbooks releases RSS feeds sync tool- August 9, 2008 http:www.mobileread.comuploadnews2008-08newsstand01.png ---Quote--- The News section of Feedbooks (http:www.feedbooks.comnews) offer an easy way to transform RSS feeds into a format supported by your reading device. But we're all lazy: that's the reason why we created a software to auto-sync those feeds to your device. Available for Windows, News Stand use our API (http:www.feedbooks.comapi) to synchronize all of your subscriptions as soon as you plug in your device (any UMS device should be..http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27550&goto=newpost Is your favorite book not available on Kindle- August 9, 2008 http:www.mobileread.comuploadnews2008-08requestkindle.jpgAt last! Hopefully this is not old news but Amazon has added a "button" on the left side of a book's page listing in the Main Book Store that allows you to click on it to request the book's publisher issue it in Kindle format! The button is under the book's cover illustration. Now we can ask a publisher to fill in those books in a series that have been omitted somehow from the Kindle format. Or those old favorites that we'd like to...http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27545&goto=newpost |