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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose in May 2018

17 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

In spite of cheats like Chance Carter, the third largest ebook market in the world continued to expand in May 2018. Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool total $22.5 [Read More ...]

Microsoft Edge Browser for Android Now Claims to Support eBooks

12 June, 2018 // 4 Comments

Launched in October, Microsoft's Edge web browser for the Android always struck me as a product that was released so MS could check off another box, but it looks like I was wrong. Microsoft released [Read More ...]

E-ink Booth Tour SID Display Week 2018 (videos)

4 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

The ereader market is mostly dead, but E-ink is still showing off nifty looking new prototypes. For example, E-ink showed off their new 10.3" flexible display last week at SID Display Week. Yes, [Read More ...]

ClearInk is Still a Year Away From Mass Production (video)

31 May, 2018 // 5 Comments

ClearInk demonstrated the latest examples of their screen tech at SID Display Week 2018. The screens missed their promised ship date of last quarter, but ClearInk says that in spite of the delay they [Read More ...]

Microsoft Edge Browser for iPhone, iPad Now Supports eBooks

30 May, 2018 // 4 Comments

Launched in November, Microsoft's Edge web browser for the iPad and iPhone always struck me as a product that was released so MS could check off another box, but it looks like I was wrong. Microsoft [Read More ...]

Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool, Per-Page Rate Increased in April 2018

17 May, 2018 // 0 Comments

The third largest ebook market in the world continued to grow in April 2018. Amazon announced on Tuesday that the funding pool increased to $21.2 million in April, up from $21 million in March. At [Read More ...]

Tea eReaders Use Non-Adobe DRM on Pocketbook Hardware

16 May, 2018 // 1 Comment

Tea is a French ereader startup that has gotten little attention outside of France, and it is about time that changed. This several year old startup recently signed a deal to provide the DRM used on [Read More ...]

Making Your Own Custom Facebook and Twitter Share Links/Buttons for Beginners

14 May, 2018 // 2 Comments

Share buttons for social media such as Facebook and Twitter are a great way to grow your audience organically and let your readers support your work by sharing it their social media networks. The [Read More ...]

Dropbox Quietly Launches an Epub Viewer

1 May, 2018 // 3 Comments

Dropbox is a popular way to store your ebooks and other files online, and now they have made it a little easier to read those ebooks. A reader has tipped me to the news that Dropbox now has an Epub [Read More ...]

Thirty Minutes a Day is All It Takes to Automate Your Social Media Activity, But I Don’t Recommend it

23 April, 2018 // 6 Comments

As I am sure you know, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all your work done. This is why we are always looking for new ways to automate tasks, and why I started the Tech Tools for Authors [Read More ...]

You Can Now Strip DRM from Amazon’s Kindle KFX Format

16 April, 2018 // 4 Comments

When Amazon launched the newest version of its Kindle ebook format in 2015, the improved typography and hyphenation came at a price. Each KFX ebook was delivered as a collection of files with no [Read More ...]

With “Talk to Books”, Google Wants to Replace English Lit Professors

15 April, 2018 // 3 Comments

Google's developed a new way to ask its search engine research questions, and it could make English Lit classes a breeze. Talk to Books is Google's solution to answering fuzzy or nonspecific [Read More ...]

Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Dips in March 2018 as the Funding Pool Increases

15 April, 2018 // 3 Comments

While the Kindle Unlimited funding pool grew by 5% in March 2018, the per-page royalty did not. Amazon announced on Friday that the funding pool increased to $21 million in March, up from $20 million [Read More ...]

I’m Leaving Twitter

12 April, 2018 // 29 Comments

The problem with Twitter is that the folks who run the show don't understand their userbase or their product. We can see this in how Twitter's more useful features such as hashtags and quote retweets [Read More ...]

Tech Tools for Authors #4: Social Media

11 April, 2018 // 2 Comments

Authors have to juggle a lot of balls in today's book industry. Not only do they have to write that next book, they also have to market it, balance the ledgers, woo their fans on social media, do [Read More ...]