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Amazon Claims to Accurately Measure Pages Read in Kindle Unlimited, Neglects to Mention There’s no Standard Page Size

19 June, 201819 June, 2018DeBunking, Kindle7 Comments

Earlier this week Amazon released a statement tangential to the ongoing problem of cheating in Kindle Unlimited, but as with many of Amazon's statements the bigger story...

Authors, Don’t Be Taken in by the Blockchain/Bitcoin Hype

4 June, 201825 June, 2018DeBunking, Self-Pub7 Comments

If you have been following tech news then you've probably heard the term blockchain mentioned more than once. This word is rarely explained in non-technical terms,...

Cockygate: Faleena Hopkins Has Registered a Trademark on Cocky, and is Using it to Threaten Other Romance Authors

5 May, 20186 May, 2018DeBunking, Lawsuit, Self-Pub84 Comments

Trademark bullying is a pox on industries ranging from breweries to whatever over-priced junk Monster Cable is making this week. A trademark bully's ostensible goal is...

Amazon to Spend a Billion Dollars to License “The Three-Body Problem”?

28 March, 201826 July, 2018Amazon, DeBunking, Rumors9 Comments

The Three-Body Problem is one of those books that many people have heard of but few have read. Originally published in Chinese, the English translation of...

Major UK Booksellers Throw Up Their Hands When Accused of Selling Far-Right Titles

21 March, 201821 March, 2018Amazon, DeBunking5 Comments

Remember last year when everyone wrung their hands over Amazon selling Holocaust denial books and completely ignored the fact that you could find those same books...

If eReaders Are Dead Then So Are Film Cameras. And Horse Riding. And Fountain Pens. And Digital Cameras. And Lots of Other Stuff

27 February, 201827 February, 2018DeBunking, e-Reading Hardware11 Comments

Last week Tom's Hardware published a piece which used flawed assumptions to ask whether the ereader was dead: Yes, reading now is a little bit different...

Updated: eBooks are a Stupid Product, and Other Blinkered Ramblings

19 February, 201820 February, 2018DeBunking, Publishing31 Comments

Lagardère Publishing CEO Arnaud Nourry gave an interview to Scroll.in this weekend that showed both that he was remarkably ignorant about his products as well as how...

Edmonton Airport Wastes Money on a Short Story Printer

16 January, 201816 January, 2018DeBunking, e-Reading Hardware4 Comments

So the latest hot and trendy bookish gimmick is a receipt printer that has been gussied up as a "vending machine" that prints short stories. This...

No One Wants to Buy LitFic Anymore, So a UK Arts Council is Going to Waste Taxpayer Funds On It

17 December, 201720 December, 2017DeBunking, statistics8 Comments

A new report from the Arts Council England has confirmed what everyone already knew: people aren't buying nearly as much literary fiction as before. Don't ask...

No One Knows Exactly How Many eBooks Indie Authors Published Last Year, Much Less ISBNs

23 October, 201711 November, 2017DeBunking, ebook sales2 Comments

In our next trip behind the publishing industry curtain, we are going to take a look at Bowker's annual report on ISBN registrations and discuss how...

The Publishing Industry Thinks Facebook and Netflix Are Doomed

12 October, 201719 November, 2018DeBunking15 Comments

The legacy publishing industry keeps bleating about "screen fatigue" as the cause of why people are buying fewer of their ebooks (because it could not possibly...

Lies, Damn Lies, and Book People Statistics

21 September, 201726 August, 2018DeBunking, ebook sales8 Comments

When Mark Twain popularized the phrase "lies, damn lies, and statistics", he was referring to the way that one can selectively report statistics and tell just...

Children Turn Their Backs on eBooks as ‘Screen Fatigue’ Takes Hold, And Other Fictions

10 September, 201720 February, 2018DeBunking5 Comments

As I am sure many people know, The Guardian takes every opportunity - and sometimes invents those opportunities - to proclaim that ebooks are dying and...

Correcting the Record – Amazon’s Naggar Tells Publishers to Slash eBook Prices … to Help Unknown Authors

5 September, 20176 September, 2017Amazon, DeBunking7 Comments

There's a story going around this week that the Amazon VP of Kindle Content, David Naggar, advised publishers to slash their ebook prices to boost sales....

No, Amazon ISN’T Teasing Alexa on Kindles

27 August, 201728 August, 2017DeBunking, e-Reading Hardware9 Comments

The usual disreputable source is making stuff up again. In the past they've claimed that sources told them that Amazon would release a Kindle with a...

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