Morning Coffee – 17 August 2017
Here are a few stories to read this morning. Copyright and the Historical Record (CopyHype) Why Note-Taking by Hand Is Better for Your Brain (Intellectual Takeout) 'Lazy and sloppy': historical [Read More ...]
B&N Now Pitching “Nook First Look” Promo Service to Indie Authors
Speaking of copying old ideas, Barnes & Noble is ending out emails to indie authors, asking them to participate in a new marketing service called Nook First Look. Authors on KBoards report that [Read More ...]
Welcome to 2007: B&N Launches a Podcast, Joins Myspace
There are times where I feel bad for heckling B&N for being so far behind the curve that they think it's a flat line. Then they go and do something like this: Barnes & Noble today launched [Read More ...]
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in July 2017 as the Per-Page Rate Dropped
July is the last month before the new KENPC changes take affect, and it went out with a bang. Amazon reported yesterday that the funding pool rose by $1 million in July 2017, to $19 million. At the [Read More ...]
Morning Coffee – 16 August 2017
Here are a few stories to read this morning. Smashwords Introduces “Special Deals”- Automated Merchandising of Onsale Ebooks (Smashwords) Merriam-Webster’s new etymology tool is both [Read More ...]
Amazon Reinvents the Corner Store (Time to Sell Your B&N Edu, CVS, and Walgreen’s Stock)
A few weeks back the Daily Mail confusingly reported that Amazon was about to enter the drug store market. They got the story wrong (selling prescription medications online is not the same thing as [Read More ...]
Infographic: Periodic Table of Literary Villains
The often under-appreciated villains get their just due in the following infographic. From Mephistopheles to Count Dracula and Lady Macbeth to the Queen of Hearts, we love to hate the bad guys. Their [Read More ...]
Morning Coffee – 15 August 2017
Here are a few stories to read this morning. 7 Things People Who Use Bookmarks Will Never Understand About People Who Dog-Ear Books (Bustle) The 4 Great Myths of Book Publishing (HuffPost) I Bought a [Read More ...]
Dasung Paperlike Pro + iPhone (video)
I am still working on new videos for my review of the Dasung Paperlike Pro, but in the meantime I would like to share this video from Sol Computers, Dasung's retail partner here in the USA. Chris [Read More ...]
Self-Centered Bookseller Demands Amazon Subsidize Indie Bookstores
An entitled book buyer at Vroman's Bookstore has responded to Jeff Bezos' asking for philanthropy ideas with a greedily outstretched hand. From the LATimes: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, one of the [Read More ...]
About That “Dramatic Growth of Swearing in Books”
A recently published academic paper has shown that the weakening of censorship inside publishers has lead to a dramatic increase in the use of swear words in American books since 1950. The paper [Read More ...]
Morning Coffee – 14 August 2017
Here are a few stories to read this morning. The Only Rule Amazon Truly Cares About (David Gaughran) HyperCard On The Archive (Celebrating 30 Years of HyperCard) (Internet Archive Blogs) Audiobooks: [Read More ...]
Breaking News: Amazon Is NOT Going to Suffer From the Shifting eBook Market
It is a given, in 2017, that many sites are going to report on "declining" ebook sales. It is also given that almost all of those sites are going to misunderstand and misstate the revenue stats from [Read More ...]
James Patterson Takes a Swipe at Amazon in Latest Novel
Popular media has a long history of bashing the rich and powerful by referencing them as villains. For example, both Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson were parodied as Bond villains. Now James [Read More ...]
Paul Biba’s eBook, eLibrary, eMuseum and ePublishing news compilation for week ending Friday, August 11
Editor's Note: The following is a compilation of tweets from @PaulKBiba, the former editor of Teleread and an editor of Project Gutenberg’s Facebook page. Wikimedia Research Newsletter, May 2017 [Read More ...]