Literary Hub announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a book review aggregation service called Book Marks. It’s more or less Rotten Tomatoes clone, only for books. Book Marks aggregates reviews from more...Continue reading
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Fakespot Responds to Complaints Over Book Review Ratings, Promises Changes
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the week since I first reported on Fakespot’s system for analyzing Amazon reviews, it’s that Fakespot‘s algorithms completely miffed on book reviews. Numerous authors have complained both...Continue reading
Okada Books is an Indie African eBookstore
The indie author movement is so loud and boisterous in the Western world that it often drowns out similar efforts elsewhere in the globe. In Africa, for example, Okada Books has been...Continue reading
Amazon Refines Customer Review Process With New Ratings Options
It’s always been easy to post a review on Amazon; simply jot down a few sentences, select a star rating, and you’re done. It’s so easy to post a review,...Continue reading
Kobo is Listing eBook Formats Again, Also Has Another Go at Posting Book Reviews
Over the past few weeks Kobo updated its website with a couple new features which readers will appreciate. The retailer is now once again showing the ebook format data which...Continue reading
How Not to Respond to Negative Reviews: The Kathleen Hale Edition
Do you want to hear some absolutely crazy shit? (This cannot be described in lesser terms, sorry.) There’s a story that is burning up twitter today. Writing for The Guardian,...Continue reading
How Not to Respond to Negative Reviews: The Anne Rice Edition
I don’t mention book reviews much on this blog but a particular review caught my attention today. The review itself was a good read, but the fallout when fans of...Continue reading
The Silent History is So Innovative That it Uses Century-Old Ideas
There’s a new ebook app in iTunes this week which as been getting a lot of attention this past few weeks. The Silent History is an SF title from the...Continue reading
Book Review: Bottom of the Ninth
Earlier this year I came across a new attempt to add moving images to digital comics. The book is called Bottom of the Ninth, and while the later installments seem...Continue reading
Book Review: 56 Broken Kindle Screens
A couple weeks ago I posted on a new art book called 56 Broken Kindle Screens. This book attempted to separate the the artistic value of broken Kindle screens from...Continue reading