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Infographic: World of Typography

18 September, 201918 September, 2019InfographicLeave a comment

Typography is one of the lesser-known modern art forms , but just how much do you know about it? The following infographic is going to tell...

Kindle, Kindle Fires are On Sale This Week

17 September, 201917 September, 2019e-Reading Hardware, Fire, KindleOne Comment

Amazon is throwing another round of sales this week. This time around they have cut the price of several Kindle models as well as a couple...

Are You Desperate Enough to Try the Most Dangerous Writing App?

17 September, 201917 September, 2019Writing2 Comments

I just finished my next guest blog post for The Book Designer. It took me over a day to finish, in part because this was a...

Tor.com’s Free eBook for September is Robert Jordan’s “New Spring”

17 September, 201917 September, 2019FreebiesOne Comment

Tor.com's ebook of the month club is giving away New Spring by Robert Jordan this week. This is a prequel novel in his The Wheel of...

Morning Coffee – 16 September 2019

15 September, 201915 September, 2019Morning Coffee5 Comments

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. While I'm glad that Slate is covering librarians' campaign against library ebook restrictions, I wish they...

Quillbot is the Freshman English Student’s Best Friend

15 September, 201915 September, 2019WritingOne Comment

I found another writer bot, but it's not nearly as good as the ones I wrote about last week (you can find those posts in the...

About the Lack of Morning Coffee Posts …

15 September, 201915 September, 2019blog maintenance12 Comments

There has been a marked absence of morning coffee posts over the past few weeks (as well as a shortage of posts in general). I have...

Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Per-Page Rate Fell in August 2019 While the Funding Pool Grew

15 September, 201915 September, 2019Amazon, ebook salesLeave a comment

Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by two hundred thousand dollars in August 2019, to $25.8 million, from $25.6 million in...

eBook Resale Ruled Illegal in the EU (Actually, No, It Hasn’t)

11 September, 201911 September, 2019Intellectual Property3 Comments

For the past seven years it has been legal to resell software in Europe under what is known as the "UsedSoft" decision, a court ruling that...

Will You Buy the New Kobo Libra H2O? (I Would)

10 September, 201910 September, 2019e-Reading Hardware21 Comments

Kobo's newest ereader went up for pre-order today on the Kobo, Walmart, and Indigo websites, and will be shipping next week; will you buy one? The...

Jeffsum is a Jeff Goldblum Lorem Ipsum Generator

9 September, 20199 September, 2019humor, WritingOne Comment

Back before we had bots almost capable of writing non-gibberish, designers used filler text called lorem ipsum. And with the rise of the internet, developers have...

StoryAI Won’t Put Writers Out of Work, But It Will Save Them Time

8 September, 20199 September, 2019Writing8 Comments

Earlier today I published a post on a bot that could summarize any article you gave it. That bot did not do a good job, but...

“TLDR This!” Can Automatically Summarize an Article or Blog Post

8 September, 20198 September, 2019WritingOne Comment

Bots capable of scanning and summarizing a written work are still a relatively inaccessible field of AI research. At least, I don't know of any free...