Three Possible Problems With Bowker’s Self-Pub Stats
Did you catch the hot self-pub story today? Bowker released the stub of a new report which analyzes the ISBNs registered to self-published titles in the...Continue reading
Category: DeBunking
A Flawed Survey Shows Amazon Has 79% of eBook Market in UK, 11% of Brits Use eBooks, and Other Nonsense
There’s a new survey out today for Ofcom, and if you have already read about the survey in The Bookseller then I suggest that you forget...Continue reading
Seeking Alpha is Wrong About the Potential Qalcomm/Nook Media Partnership
Have you seen the new editorial over on Seeking Alpha about Qualcomm and NookMedia? If you haven’t read it yet, don’t bother. And if you have...Continue reading
Don’t Blame Apple if Your Third Party Charger Explodes
Tell me, have you been following ChargerGate? There have been a spate of tech horror stories over the past few weeks about Apple products supposedly harming/maiming/killing...Continue reading
Why The Grammar-Nazis Are Literally Wrong
There has been a tempest circulating the WWW these past few days over the use of the word literally (what, again?). A number of blogs are...Continue reading
Om Malik, Neil Irwin, and Nicholas Carr are Wrong: eBook Sales Aren’t Flattening
There’s been a brouhaha this past week over the recent book sale data from the AAP, and I just realized this evening that I am at...Continue reading
I Wouldn’t Read Too Much Into That Quartz Article About Liquavista Screen Tech
There’s an article over on the Quartz website that has been getting a lot of attention this last week – much to my dismay. The article,...Continue reading
Debunked: Amazon, Kobo and Sony DIDN’T Request eReaders be Exempt from Accessibility Laws
Did you catch the story that was posted over at MobileRead yesterday about the major ereader companies trying to get out of complying with accessibility laws?...Continue reading
WSJ Claims Apple is Working on an iPad Maxi – I Still Say No
Remember that rumor that came out of Korea in early June about Apple supposedly working on a 12.9″ iPad? The WSJ is reviving the rumor and...Continue reading
The Guardian Discovers That Amazon Wants to Make Money on Books And Does Not Approve
There seems to have been a flare up these past few weeks of the belief that Amazon, a for-profit corporation, is evil for wanting to make...Continue reading
Did Wired Prove a Connection Between Browser Tabs and Battery Life? I’m Not So Sure
There’s a new article over on the Wired website yesterday that claims to prove a connection between the dozens tabs many people like to have open...Continue reading
Author Solutions Rep Claims Its Critics Are Being Sued for Racketeering, Insists the Company is Regulated by FCC
If you’ve been following digital publishing news for any length of time then you are probably aware of Author Solutions, the Random Penguin Solutions vanity press...Continue reading
Why Apple Really Wanted iBooks – An Alternate Theory (And Why Everyone is Wrong)
If you’ve been following the ebook news this past week then you’ve probably read about Apple, iBooks, and how Apple wanted to make a lot of...Continue reading
Open Question: Did the Kindle App for Win8 Stop Supporting Older Kindle eBook Formats? (Did It Ever Support Them?)
There’s a story circulating today about Amazon’s latest misdeed, only I am not so sure that the Satan of Seattle has actually done anything evil today....Continue reading
The Scholarly Kitchen Joins in on the Amazon Bashing
It’s a sad day in the blogosphere. The Scholarly Kitchen, a blog that used to be known for the merit and quality of their posts, joined...Continue reading