Nate Hoffelder, Author at The Digital Reader

Morning Coffee – 18 January 2018

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Here are a few stories to read this Friday morning. The Guardian has spun The Authors Guild's bogus income report as blaming Amazon. That is not my take.. This...

The Authors Guild Calls for a “Public Lending Right”

16 January, 201918 January, 2019Intellectual Property, Libraries17 Comments

The Authors Guild looked at the survey report on author income that they released a couple weeks ago, and they have come up with a solution that won't actually...

Morning Coffee – 16 January 2019

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Here are a few stories to read this Wednesday morning. "Bandersnatch" creator isn't wasting any time with people who hate the movie. Kobo placed a story with the NY...

Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Dips Bbelow Half a Cent in December 2018 while the Funding Pool Grew

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Amazon sent ut an email to authors on Tuesday with the news that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew to $23.7 million (plus bonuses) in December 2018 , up...

What to Do With an Eight Year Old Android Tablet?

15 January, 201916 January, 2019e-Reading Hardware, Tips and Tricks11 Comments

I have been covering Android tablets on this blog since the very beginning. I wrote about the first pretty awful Pandigital tablets when they were still locked down as...

BookNet Canada: Print Sales Remained Flat in 2018

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Data collected by BookNet Canada shows that print book sales in the Canadian English-language trade market remained flat in 2018 when compared to the previous year. At the same time,...

Barnes & Noble Removes Nook Signage From Stores

14 January, 201914 January, 2019Barnes & Noble, e-Reading Hardware11 Comments

When Barnes & Noble started taking the Nook kiosks out of its stores this summer, they moved the hardware to the customer service desk and put up big signs...

Morning Coffee – 14 January 2018

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Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure books has filed a bogus trademark lawsuit against Netflix over its...

How to Cancel Your Kindle Unlimited Membership

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Amazon's Kindle Unlimited launched in July 2014. It costs anywhere from $3 to $11.50, depending on the market, and provides limited access to a catalog of over one million ebooks,...

Apple’s Latest Deals Raise Possibility of Apple Books App Coming to Android

11 January, 201911 January, 2019Apple4 Comments

For the longest time now optimists have been hoping that Apple would launch the iBooks app on other platforms. Given Apple's long-standing policy of only offering their services on...

Morning Coffee -11 January 2019

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Here are a few stories to read this Friday morning. The ultimate guide to introducing your child to books. Judith Briles explains how authors can best use their email...

Kyocera Card-Keitai E-ink Phone Runs Android (video)

10 January, 201910 January, 2019e-Reading HardwareLeave a comment

Aside from a single model made by Onyx, E-ink phones are basically dead as a door nail. Ar at least they were until Kyocera released the Card-Keitai phone in Japan...

Thalia and Mayersche to Merge, Will Be Germany’s Biggest Bookstore Chain

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Barnes & Noble is avoiding talking about its finances, but the news from Europe is more positive. Lesen.net and other sites report that two German bookstore chains have announced...

Barnes & Noble Won’t Say How Much They Sold in the 2018 Holiday Season

10 January, 201910 January, 2019Barnes & Noble2 Comments

A lot of people have been eagerly awaiting B&N's financial report on its holiday sales. The consensus both among its employees and pundits is that B&N will have a...

PublishDrive Launches an eBook Production Tool

10 January, 201910 January, 2019content creation, ebook tools3 Comments

eBook distributor PublishDrive just launched their own ebook conversion tool. It takes in DOCX files and produces Epub and Mobi files. BTW, I also added this new tool to...

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