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Exclusive: Amazon Has Shut Down Liquavista

15 October, 2018 // 2 Comments

Here's a fascinating footnote to tomorrow's Amazon news. I have official confirmation today of a rumor that circulated in March: Amazon has shut down its screen tech sub, Liquavista. An Amazon rep [Read More ...]

Thalia Buys 50% Stake in Skoobe

9 October, 2018 // 0 Comments

The German bookstore chain Thalia is about to become a 50% shareholder in subscription ebook service, Skoobe. Launched in 2012 as a partnership between Bertelsmann and Holtzbrinck, Skoobe is a more [Read More ...]

Google+ Isn’t Shutting Down, But It Will Be Retasked For Enterprise Use

8 October, 2018 // 6 Comments

It's been pretty obvious for a while now that Google's social network has been so completely abandoned by the public that its remaining users, Google employees, could use it to share sensitive [Read More ...]

Gutenberg Will be Released with WordPress 5.0 on 19 November – Here’s What You Need to Do

6 October, 2018 // 11 Comments

We have known for the past 18 months that Gutenberg was going to one day change just about every aspect of running a WordPress site from publishing posts to designing pages. As I explained a couple [Read More ...]

Guest Post: 7 Reasons Authors Should Be on Holonis

24 September, 2018 // 14 Comments

Join the #holoauthor family No matter what type of business you’re in, nothing is more important to personal brand than storytelling. No one knows that more than us authors. A good story helps our [Read More ...]

The Digital Reader is Now on Instagram and Pinterest

14 September, 2018 // 9 Comments

It belatedly occurred to me this evening that I've never announced that I've expanded my bloging to include Pinterest and Instagram. As a result of an epiphany about blogging I had a few weeks back, [Read More ...]

Guest Post: Science Fiction Was Around in Medieval Times – Here’s What it Looked Like

12 September, 2018 // 1 Comment

Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green “children of Woolpit”, who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk [Read More ...]

Interactive Fiction is the Little Market That Could

11 September, 2018 // 5 Comments

There's a post referenced in tomorrow morning's link post that touches on interactive fiction. That piece claims IF is a new idea that is changing the market. The former claim isn't true, obviously, [Read More ...]

Instapaper is Charging for Premium Once More – The Free Ride is Over

7 August, 2018 // 0 Comments

One of the first things that Pinterest did when it bought Instapaper from Betaworks 2 years ago was to make Instapaper's premium service free for all users. Now that Instapaper is independent (and [Read More ...]

Gutenberg, WordPress, & You: the What, the Why, and the How

6 August, 2018 // 3 Comments

If you have a WordPress site, chances are you have heard of something called Gutenberg. You could have seen one of the posts written about it over the past 18 months (such as mine), or you may have [Read More ...]

Come Join my Facebook Group

5 August, 2018 // 0 Comments

I've mentioned this in various places on social media, but I don't think I've announced on the blog that I officially launched my Facebook group last month. It's called The Help Desk, and it's a [Read More ...]

Germany’s Weltbild Launches an eBook Subscription, Also Reminds Us Why Amazon is Winning the Book Market

1 August, 2018 // 7 Comments

The German retailer Weltbild has offered its customers a limited ebook subscription service via its stake in Tolino since last November, and now it is launching an even more crippled version of [Read More ...]

Twitter Will lock Your Account If You Change the Display Name to “Elon Musk”

26 July, 2018 // 4 Comments

I just found a 100% effective way to cut back on my time wasted on Twitter. In what is very likely a response to scammers impersonating the South African billioniare, Twitter is now automatically [Read More ...]

How to Download Audiobooks from Google Play Books – DRM-Free!

23 July, 2018 // 4 Comments

When Google started selling audiobooks in Play Books back in January I was quick to dismiss their service because the audiobook experience was simply awful. It was so bad that I concluded "Google [Read More ...]

No One Wants to Own Instapaper

17 July, 2018 // 9 Comments

Originally launched by Marco Arment as an iPhone app, the save for later service Instapaper was sold to Betaworks in 2013, who then sold it to Pinterest in 2016. Now Instapaper is being spun out as [Read More ...]