I Am Back Online
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay a postal worker from their rounds, but winds were certainly enough to knock me offline. Starting yesterday morning, the northern Virginia [Read More ...]
blog maintenance
So I Have a New Home Page
This took me a good three months longer than I had planned, but today I am ready to unveil the new home page for this site. The new layout deemphasizes the blog and brings more attention to the tech [Read More ...]
The Digital Reader is Now Ad-Free
While everyone was off on vacation last week, I was busy behind the scenes doing scut work on my websites. I rebuilt the Valiant Chicken site, added HTTPS, stripped out a dozen plugins I didn't need, [Read More ...]
Please excuse the mess (and the explosions, and the screams of innocent bystanders, and all the fire trucks)
I'm sorry about the mess today, folks. You may have noticed that the site was down several times Friday afternoon and evening. We were trying to track down an intermittent bug that kept crashing the [Read More ...]
Happy Thanksgiving
A happy thanksgiving from all of us at The Digital Reader to all our [Read More ...]
Attention, Authors: WordPress 5.0 Will Change Everything You Know About WordPress
If you are one of the millions who blog on WordPress, your world is about to change. Due out next year, WordPress 5.0 is going to feature a new framework called Gutenberg. It hasn't been discussed [Read More ...]
Yes, I Respond to Media Queries
Recent events have convinced me that I need to formally announce a policy on answering questions from bloggers and journalists. Yes, I answer media queries either as an expert or on background [Read More ...]
Boom! Kablooie! Crunch!
This blog had an unexpected hiatus today while we were trying to upgrade to HTTPS. I did not crash the site (this time, anyway) but I did successfully lock myself out of the admin pages for a while. [Read More ...]
Hire Us
This is a gentle reminder that, in addition to being the best surviving ebook blog, The Digital Reader also solves web problems for authors and publishers. I build and maintain WordPress sites, but [Read More ...]
2016 Was Not Kind to Book Industry Blogs
When we look back on 2016 it is going to be remembered as the year of The Donald; the year we lost everyone from Prince to Florence Henderson to Bowie; and in a smaller way 2016 should also be [Read More ...]
We’re Moving (Please Excuse the Mess)
The Digital Reader is taking an extreme step to solve its recent database issues: we're switching hosting companies. If everything works out then the site should be migrated tonight, and after that [Read More ...]
We’re Back, Baby!
Reports of this blog's demise were greatly exaggerated. The adequate engineers at MediaTemple were able to recover the database in the backup from early Sunday. This has cost me all the posts from [Read More ...]
News of the eBook World
Today I am officially unveiling a new page on my site. News of the eBook World shows headlines and links from RSS feeds for six sites which cover ebook news. The list includes Publishers Weekly [Read More ...]
Tip Us
This is a periodic reminder that you can send news tips and suggestions to [email protected], or via the contact page, or by sharing a document or folder in your preferred cloud storage [Read More ...]
Test Post
Right now I'm working on porting this blog's email newsletter to Mailchimp, and I need to test a few features. I still don't know for sure that I will move from Feedburner, but I rather like a few of [Read More ...]