Kobo published a self-congratulatory post on Medium this week which was sorely lacking in any achievements worth celebrating. They've posted the text of the talk Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn gave...
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Category: Stupid Nonsense
Clickbait: B&N Plans to Close 197 Bookstores by 2022
There's a ridiculous little story making its way around the web this week. A certain ebook blog has used bad math, a magic 8-ball, and their own wild guesses to...
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The Atlantic: Amazon Just Replaced the Public Library
When a news organization has to cover an important story like Amazon's new bookstore, they can usually either find an expert to write the article, or just have a...
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Japanese Readers Spend the Most on eBooks, And Other Unsubstantiated Clickbait
So yesterday Business Insider posted a nifty-looking chart that claimed Japanese readers would be spending the most on ebooks this year, followed closely by Brits. As you can in...
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Book Industry Hates Its Biggest Customer, Collectively Calls on DoJ to Investigate Amazon
Judging by the media circus that just came to town, something huge is about to happen in the book world. The book industry has kicked off a massive coordinated media...
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HarperCollins Missed an Opportunity With the “Watchman” Excerpt
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman is due to hit store shelves next week. This is one of the more anticipated releases of the year. The publishers ( HarperCollins in...
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New Conspiracy Theory: Amazon to Expand Pay-Per-Page to Entire Kindle Store
I hope you have had your tin foil hat ready because I have a whopper of a conspiracy theory for you today. Update: Before you go further, let me...
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YOLO Juliet Improves on Shakespeare By Adding TextSpeak
Over the past 400 years Shakespeare's works have been staged innumerable times, with each new performance making subtle alterations to the original. Few of those productions, however, have made changes quite as...
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Girl Ordered to Stop Reading on the Bus Because “She Might Poke Herself in the Eye”
A Canadian bus driver has starter a one person campaign to save the next generation from becoming a bunch of eyepatch wearing book lovers. The CBC reports: An eight-year-old...
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Porter Anderson Wants Indie Authors to Sit Down And Shut Up
In a classic case of concern trolling, noted publishing industry pundit Porter Anderson calls on leading indie authors to stop being so noisy at recruiting new authors to their...
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Ancestry.com Files Bogus DMCA Notice to Keep Public Domain Records Offline
Long the go-to site for declassified US govt documents, The Black Vault has recently faced a setback in its efforts to digitize and upload records from Project Bluebook, the...
Continue readingFrance Bans Wifi From Nursery Schools
If I had to put together a list of all the things I don't fear, the harmful effects of Wifi would come right after dihydrogen monoxide and kittens. Guess what...
Continue readingTime Thinks “Amazon’s Dispute With Hachette Might Finally Be Hurting Its Sales”
Over the past 6 months I have read many questionable arguments about the Amazon-Hachette dispute, but few rose to the level of sheer unsubstantiated clickbait as the piece that Time...
Continue readingApple Just Shipped the 500 Millionth iPhone, But if They Don’t Ship an iWatch in the Next Couple Months They’re Doomed
In the past 7 years Apple has sold more smartphones and more tablets than anyone, but according to one analyst none of that matters if Apple neglects to ship...
Continue readingThe “Book as a Luxury Item” is not the Future of Publishing
Do you recall how David Streitfield, Mike Shatzkin, and others have been writing about the general market failure of anything but the more basic ebooks? Some are misinterpreting that...
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