Google Play Books is Now Renting Novels Published by Open Road Media
A reader just tipped me to a new section in Play Books that contains around 200 ebooks you can rent (Thanks, Tom!). All the ebooks appear...Continue reading
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Google is Beta-Testing Custom Shelves, Search Features
Do you like trying the newest features before anyone else? I prefer tools that work, but for those who are more adventurous, Google announced a new...Continue reading
Google Play Books Ends Discounting in Canada, Australia, and USA – Now Pays a 70% Royalty
Remember a couple months back when I reported that Google was insisting that authors sign up for an account with Play Books even though the author's...Continue reading
How to Stop Websites From Harassing You About Notifications and Location Tracking
Update: It's July 2019, and I am suddenly seeing a rash of websites asking to send me notifications, so I went into Chrome to block them...Continue reading
How to Erase Your Google History (Yes, All of it)
Like Facebook, Google makes most of its money from selling ads, and like FB one way Google tries to make the ads more effective is by...Continue reading
Microsoft eBook Refunds Are Coming in July
When Microsoft announced in April that it was shutting down yet another ebookstore, they told customers that we'd be getting a complete refund and a credit...Continue reading
ClearInk SID Display Week 2019 (video)
Charbax caught up with ClearInk at SID Display Week last month. The company reps talked a very good game in the hopes of distracting us from...Continue reading
Google Play Books is Cutting Out the Middleman, Now Wants a Direct Relationship with Authors and Publishers
Many authors and publishers use a company such as PublishDrive or Draft2Digital to handle their distribution to smaller ebook retailers. They trade a small cut of...Continue reading
JK Rowling Facebook Fan Page Stolen – From Facebook
Facebok has long had an issue with hackers stealing control of pages. This problem has been cropping up every year since at least 2012, but now...Continue reading
Fourteen Amazing Google Docs Hacks to Make Writing Your Next Novel Easier
Google Docs is a popular word-processing tool that lets you access your documents and files from any internet-connected device. I for one have found it to...Continue reading
How To Write A Book In Google Docs (video)
The above video is the work of Stefanie Newell. It came across my desk courtesy of The Book Designer's Carnival of the Indies monthly link post,...Continue reading
How to Stop Amazon From Sharing What You Say to Alexa with Contractors
Millions of people have smart speakers like the Echo. They are great tools that let you schedule tasks, play audiobooks, look up basic info, and what...Continue reading
Six Default Amazon Security Settings You Can Change for More Privacy
So as you may know, my mother is on my Amazon account. (There is a point to this anecdote, trust me.) We mainly use it to...Continue reading
Google Play Books 5.1.9 Adds Audiobook Download Quality Settings, Custom Skip Duration Settings
When Google started selling audiobooks last January, the Play Books Android app made the experience so frustrating that only masochists would try it more than twice....Continue reading
The Internet Archive Recovers 490,000 Music Files “Lost” by MySpace
It's not fair to expect a platform to host content for free forever (cough Flickr cough) but when MySpace deleted a dozen years worth of content...Continue reading