It looks like Amazon is losing interest in opening new bookstores. It has recently either abandoned or adapted three Amazon Books locations, raising questions whether Amazon is going to...
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Morning Coffee – 7 December 2018
Here are a few stories to read this Friday morning. Amy Collins "laments" the end of the era where she could spam book reviewers with requests to review her...
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Are Email Verification/Validation Services Worth the Cost?
If you hang around where business people (this includes authors) talk about marketing, the topic of mailing lists will come up a lot, and every so often someone will...
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Kindle Android App Now Lets You Store eBooks on Your SD Card
Amazon just released a new update for the Kindle Android app in Google Play today. There's no new feature listed in the "What's New" section, but it does show this...
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Morning Coffee – 5 December 2018
Here are a few stories to read this Wednesday morning. A Canadian book prize has canceled Amazon's sponsorship following a public outcry. Electric Literature wonders why Americans why don't...
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Here’s What You Can Do with That Old Blog After Launching a New Website
If you write online for years on end there will come a point where you will end up with multiple old blogs and abandoned writing projects residing on various...
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Amazon Freetime Unlimited Users Report Service Outages
For the past couple weeks Amazon's child-centered subscription service has been having a few problems. Amazon Freetime Unlimited is supposed to provide access to a selection of apps videos,...
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Tumblr Reminds Us Why Creators Need to Own Their Platform, Part Three
Almost like clockwork, every couple years Tumblr gives us another example of how if you don't own your own platform, you don't get to decide what you can say....
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Sony to Discontinue Its Marlin DRM (?)
There's an as yet unconfirmed rumor going around that Sony "has chosen to discontinue the commercialization" of its Marlin ebook DRM. Supported by Sony DADC, this DRM was an...
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Barnes & Noble Releases New 7″ Nook Tablet After Black Friday
Barnes & Noble has defied conventional wisdom, and is launching its new Android tablet two weeks into the holiday season rather than weeks before. They've just announced a new...
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Morning Coffee – 3 December 2018
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. eBook startup Ganxy is shutting down. It's funny how romance gets sneered at and yet none of the authors...
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E-ink’s New JustWrite Screen Tech is Intended to Let You Write with Near-Zero Latency
E-ink has developed a new screen tech that could one day replace notepads or compliment Wacom tablets, but it is being weirdly passive aggressive in promoting it. The tech...
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Will you Nominate me for the Writer’s Digest Best Websites for Writers List?
Every year Writer's Digest compiles a list of the top 101 best websites for authors. This is an authoritative list of all the best "writing communities, publishing resources, agent advice,...
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Morning Coffee – 30 November 2018
Here are a few stories to read this Friday morning. How many of the best-sellers from the past 100 years can you recall? How many have you read? Much...
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Drunk Take: Amazon Should Buy B&N
About five or six years ago there was a popular drunk take that Walmart should buy Barnes & Noble as a bulwark against Amazon. I call it a drunk...
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