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Millennial Reading Habits Have Changed the Definition of a Classic , and Other Lazy Writing

13 August, 201813 August, 2018Book Culture, DeBunking13 Comments

Millennial-bashing is popular among the media, and this is a problem not just because it's lazy writing but also because sometimes it distracts from what is...

Republican Congressional Candidate Shamed for Allegedly Writing Bigfoot Erotica

30 July, 201830 July, 2018DeBunking6 Comments

The 2018 election cycle has taken a turn for the obnoxious. There's a story going around that the candidate for a Congressional district in central Virginia...

Forbes Deleted That Ridiculous Anti-Library Piece

24 July, 201824 July, 2018DeBunking, Libraries3 Comments

On Saturday Forbes published a poorly-researched, badly-argued piece that failed to convince anyone that Amazon Books stores should replace public libraries. According to Quartz, the piece...

Updated: Amazon Books Should Replace Local Libraries, and Other Publisher-Serving “Solutions”

22 July, 201824 July, 2018DeBunking, Libraries14 Comments

Do you know how companies sometimes like to buy editorials that support their position (I see this a lot in the WSJ), or even go so...

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...

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Millennial Reading Habits Have Changed the Definition of a Classic , and Other Lazy Writing

Republican Congressional Candidate Shamed for Allegedly Writing Bigfoot Erotica

Forbes Deleted That Ridiculous Anti-Library Piece

Updated: Amazon Books Should Replace Local Libraries, and Other Publisher-Serving “Solutions”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edmonton Airport Wastes Money on a Short Story Printer

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

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

The Publishing Industry Thinks Facebook and Netflix Are Doomed

33 Ornament, Dingbat, and Other Decorative Fonts You Can Use (Legally and For Free) in Your Next eBook

How Make an XRay File for Your Kindle eBooks