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Best Buy is Now Using Spectra E-ink Shelf Labels

11 January, 202111 January, 2021e-Reading Hardware, Screen Tech3 Comments

I was in Best Buy this morning, buying a new laptop when I happened to notice that the store now had digital product labels decorating the...

1,172-Character Japanese Typewriter (video)

7 January, 20217 January, 2021Blast from the PastLeave a comment

The average typewriter had up to 40 keys and could type around 60 characters. Originally made in Japan in the late 1940s, the Toshiba Typewriter Model...

NetGalley Has Been Hacked

23 December, 202023 December, 2020Security & Privacy5 Comments

NetGalley sent out an email today (and put a notice on their home page) informing users that the e-galley service has been hacked on Monday. The...

Google Play Books Updated With New Analytics Page

16 December, 202016 December, 2020Google PlayLeave a comment

Google sent out an email today, bringing our attention to their new sales data page. Dear Partner, We’ve redesigned how sales data appears in your Google...

E-ink is Beta-Testing Electronic Window Tint (video)

21 November, 202021 November, 2020E-ink2 Comments

Tinted windows are great – they give you privacy and limit the amount of sunlight which can penetrate. But they are not so great when lighting...

Google Play Books Now Offers Promo Codes

23 October, 202023 October, 2020Google Play3 Comments

Google just gave us another reason to set up an author/publisher account in their bookstore: Promo Codes. The ad network giant sent out an email via...

E-ink to Launch New Kaleido Screens by Year’s End (Digitimes)

23 October, 202023 October, 2020E-ink, RumorsOne Comment

Remember how I told you back in August that Onyx teased a 7.8″ color ereader based on the Boox Nova2? Well, Digitimes says that the screen...

Google Play Books Now Pays a 70% Royalty in 60+ Countries

13 October, 202013 October, 2020Google Books, Google Play2 Comments

Back in July Google started testing new royalty terms in the US, Canada, and Australia, and now they are expanding the terms to cover all markets....

E-ink is Developing a Second-Gen ACeP Color ePaper (video)

4 September, 20204 September, 2020Screen Tech4 Comments

A little over 4 years ago E-ink launched a 7-color epaper screen for the signage market. The 20″ and larger screens have not seen widespread use...

Ask The Expert: When Can We Expect Better Color E-ink Screens?

16 August, 202022 August, 2020Screen Tech10 Comments

Someone asked a question in the comment section of the blog the other day about color E-ink screens. He wanted to know when we would see...

E-ink Shows Off (Another) Foldable 10.3″ Display, This Time With a Frontlight

11 August, 202011 August, 2020E-ink, e-Reading HardwareLeave a comment

Foldable E-ink display prototypes are old hat in 2020 – the oldest prototypes are actually older than some of my nieces. With just the one foldable...

Waveshare Now Carries a 5.65″ ACeP E-ink Display

11 August, 20204 September, 2020E-inkOne Comment

How would you like to get your hands on one of E-ink’s ACeP displays? Well, Waveshare has a 5.65″ screen unit which it will soon be...

Go Change Your Wattpad Password

26 July, 202026 July, 2020Security & PrivacyLeave a comment

Wattpad may have been the victim of a security breach some time in the past few months, so you may want to go change your password:...

Google Books Ngram Viewer Updated – Now Includes Books Published as Late as 2019

16 July, 202016 July, 2020Google BooksOne Comment

I was just reading on a mailing list for editors, Copyediting-L, that Google has updated the Ngram Viewer. Here’s the original announcement from Twitter: The Google...