Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Here's a new Epub making tool that is based on the static site generator, 11ty. Netflix is planning more interactive...
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Author: Nate Hoffelder
Nate Hoffelder is the founder and editor of The Digital Reader:
He's here to chew bubble gum and fix broken websites, and he is all out of bubble gum. He has been blogging about indie authors since 2010 while learning new tech skills at the drop of a hat. He fixes author sites, and shares what he learns on The Digital Reader's blog. In his spare time, he fosters dogs for A Forever Home, a local rescue group.
A Dozen Tools for Managing Your Kindle Notes and Highlights
Amazon's Kindle is a great reading platform with a number of useful annotation features, but sometimes it's not enough. I recently updated my four-year-old post on Kindle annotation tools, and...
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Artists Perform in Apple Stores, Get Paid in Merchandise
The following story is going to incite rage in certain circles. KQED reports that Apple doesn't pay artists that perform in its stores. Instead, it gives them AirPods. For...
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Kindle Unlimited Per Page Rose in February 2019 as the Funding Pool Shrank
Amazon informed authors on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool shrank in February. It totaled $23.5 million, down from $24.7 million in January 2019. At the same...
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Morning Coffee – 15 March 2019
Here are a few stories to read this Friday morning. Joanne Harris published a Q&A on ebook piracy. Another post on food in fantasy. My tenure as CEO of...
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Amazon Knocks the Basic Kindle Down to $49 (No Adverts)
We are smack dab in the middle of a sale on the Kindle Paperwhite ($99) and Amazon has apparently decided that two sales are better than one. They have...
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AAP Reports eBook Sales Down 5% in January 2019
The Association of American Publishers reported Thursday that publisher reported revenue fell in the first month of 2019. Combined revenue for trade (consumer) books was $543.8 million in January...
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How to Download Your Kindle Notes and Highlights and Export Them (Updated for 2018)
Amazon has a great reading platform in the Kindle, but sometimes it's not enough. Sometimes I need to take the notes I make in a Kindle ebook and use...
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Early Look at the Wiskey E-Pad (videos)
The Wiskey E-Pad is an upcoming 10.3" ereader slash notepad running Android 7.0 on a deca-core CPU. We're still two weeks out from the official launch of the E-Pad's...
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Morning Coffee – 13 March 2019
Here are a few stories to read this Wednesday morning. Audible has launched a Spanish-language audiobook section. (Almost) every letter in English is silent at one point or another....
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How to Make Your iPad or iPhone Read eBooks Aloud
Audiobooks are fun to listen to during a commute, or a jog, or any time your hands are busy, but they often cost a lot and you can't always...
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John Scalzi’s “The Collapsing Empire” is Tor.com’s Free ebook of the Month
The Tor.com eBook Club just announced their latest free ebook. This month's free ebook is The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. It can be downloaded for free on or before...
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Amazon Launches New eBook Quality Dashboard in KDP
So as you may know, I used KDP to list a couple of my workbooks in the Kindle Store last fall. I wasn't expecting to sell a lot, and...
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Writer’s Digest Parent Company F+W Media Files for Bankruptcy
I was hoping to present at the Writer's Digest Conference in NYC this August, but now it looks like the conference could be canceled. Forbes reports that F+W Media...
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Kindle for iPad and iPhone is Getting a Siri Shortcut
Amazon released an update for its Kindle iOS app last Tuesday, and it's a pretty useless one. According to the changelog, some time in the next few weeks we...
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