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Penguin Random House Pulls eBooks and Audiobooks From Netflix-Style Subscription Access Services

22 January, 202022 January, 2020Publishing2 Comments

PRH is backing out of its contracts with ebook and audiobook subscription services. Last week they pulled their ebooks from several Europe-based Kindle Unlimited competitors, and...

Morning Coffee – 20 January 2020

20 January, 202020 January, 2020Morning Coffee6 Comments

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The state of Missouri wants to stop kids from reading (or bring back book burning). Library...

Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Fell in December 2019

16 January, 202016 January, 2020AmazonOne Comment

Amazon announced on Wednesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by one hundred thousand dollars in December 2019, to $26.3 million, from $261. million in...

Audible Settles with Publishers in Audible Caption Lawsuit

15 January, 202015 January, 2020Amazon, Audiobook5 Comments

Remember that lawsuit from last August over Audible's new captioning feature, the feature that everyone is publishing was soooo absolutely certain was infringing on copyright? Well,...

Scribd Continues to Steal From Former Subscribers

15 January, 202015 January, 2020ScamLeave a comment

There's an old joke in tech circles that the only reason that AOL was still profitable at the end was that the company was still receiving...

The Kindle is On Sale Again – at Black Friday Prices ($85 for the Paperwhite)

14 January, 202014 January, 2020KindleLeave a comment

Amazon is having another sale today on their Kindles. Kindle prices have been reduced to Black Friday levels, making this sale the best deal you can...

Morning Coffee – 13 January 2019

13 January, 202013 January, 2020Morning Coffee3 Comments

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Why we love untranslatable concepts. Here are a few tips on managing a 500-title ebook library. ...

“Kill Sticky Headers” Cleans Up Webpages for a Better Browsing Experience

12 January, 202012 January, 2020e-Reading Software3 Comments

I was going to write a post today about a new "reading mode" Chrome extension that Boing Boing found, but then I noticed that they only...

Updates From CES 2020 (#1): Lenovo’s E-ink Laptop, Hisense’s Color E-ink Smartphone, and More

8 January, 20208 January, 2020e-Reading Hardware10 Comments

CES has grown to be a trade show attended only by the most brave or foolhardy (plus a few blackmail victims). I stopped going a few...

Amazon Launches Audible Suno App in India

8 January, 20208 January, 2020Amazon, Podcast5 Comments

Amazon launched a new audiobook app in India about a month ago. The Audible Suno app, which is available exclusively in India, features more than 60...

Library Extension Turns Amazon.com Into a Branch of Your Local Library

8 January, 202010 January, 2020Amazon, Library eBooks21 Comments

A reader has tipped me to a Chrome extension which lets users browse Amazon.com and see if a book or ebook is available at their local...

Amazon is Talking About Opening Retail Stores in Germany – What, Again?

6 January, 20206 January, 2020Amazon5 Comments

Over the past few years Amazon has repeatedly been queried by the press about opening retail stores in Germany. (I see I have written about this...

Morning Coffee – 6 January 2020

6 January, 20206 January, 2020Morning Coffee5 Comments

Here are a few stories to read this first Monday in 2020. Despised by grammar nazis who were never able to stop it from being commonly...

Waveshare Now Sells a 10.3″ E-ink Monitor for $540

5 January, 20205 January, 2020e-Reading Hardware2 Comments

I just found another vendor carrying E-ink monitors. (Thanks, source!) The electronics parts warehouse Waveshare is now carrying an unbranded 10.3" E-ink monitor (1404 x 1872...

Fujitsu Rebrands Netronix eReaders as the Quaderno A5 and A4

2 January, 20202 January, 2020e-Reading Hardware3 Comments

Fujitsu has joined the ranks of companies that have licensed hardware from the Taiwan-based OEM, Netronix. Late last year Fujitsu launched a pair of writing slates...