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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...