Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Here are 13 of Margaret Atwood’s tips on writing. Victoria Strauss has an in-depth look at the Audible returns issue. ...Continue reading
Here’s Why ALLi Downgraded Audible to “Caution”
When I reported a few weeks ago that Audible was actively promoting returns as a benefit of subscribing, I apparently missed the bigger picture. It’s not just that Audible is...Continue reading
E-ink is Beta-Testing Electronic Window Tint (video)
Tinted windows are great – they give you privacy and limit the amount of sunlight which can penetrate. But they are not so great when lighting is bad. Luckily for...Continue reading
Disney Reportedly Withholding Royalties From Alan Dean Foster Over Star Wars, Aliens Novels
Disney has replaced Amazon at the top of many people’s shit-lists this week when the SFWA publicly criticized the media giant for not paying royalties to Alan Dean Foster. From...Continue reading
Morning Coffee – 16 November 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. European antitrust regulators caught Amazon with their hand in the cookie (data) jar. Educators in the UK continue to protest...Continue reading
Amazon Launches New Author Portal
About three years back Amazon started beta-testing a new author portal called Amazon Author (not to be confused with Author Central). That new portal officially launched this past week with...Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose by $300K in October 2020
Kindle Unlimited maintained its position in October 2020 of being the market that all of Amazon’s competitors (with the possible exception of Apple) wished they owned. The KU funding pool...Continue reading
Infographic: World Reading Habits in 2020
2020 was a strange year, for obvious reasons. Many of us spent a lot of 2020 in lockdown, either trying to keep up with work or looking for a new...Continue reading
Morning Coffee – 9 November 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Here’s what to do if your favorite children’s book didn’t age well. The next unsuccessful Amazon challenger is having early...Continue reading
Annotate The Web With Hypothes.is
A new web design project is going to involve embedding a story online, and letting readers annotate it, and said project has brought my attention back to an annotation tool....Continue reading
Read at Triple Your Normal Speed with One of These Five Chrome Extension
They say that the typical person is capable of reading at a speed of 300 words per minute. Given the sheer volume of news and other information thrown at us...Continue reading
Build and Manage Series Pages in the Kindle Store
For a number of years now Amazon has been making series pages for Kindle ebooks. One of their bots would identify all of the books in a particular series, and...Continue reading
Amazon is Actively Promoting Audiobook Exchanges as an Audible Subscription Feature
I wasn’t going to touch this story because I thought at first that the claim was an exaggeration or misinterpretation, but I was wrong. If you’ve been listening to the...Continue reading
Morning Coffee – 2 November 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. A hardware hacker built a color E-ink picture frame to prank his mother (it didn’t work). Dracula is often depicted...Continue reading
Amazon is Killing Kindle Owner’s Lending Library on 4 January
When I reported several months ago that Amazon had shut down the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library, several commenters argued I was wrong because they knew a loophole (find a book...Continue reading