book review

Literary Hub’s “Book Marks” Wants to be the Next “Rotten Tomatoes” of Book Reviews

7 June, 2016 // 3 Comments

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 [Read More ...]

Fakespot Responds to Complaints Over Book Review Ratings, Promises Changes

31 January, 2016 // 11 Comments

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. [Read More ...]

Okada Books is an Indie African eBookstore

11 April, 2015 // 11 Comments

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 operating in [Read More ...]

Amazon Refines Customer Review Process With New Ratings Options

23 March, 2015 // 26 Comments

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, in fact, that it's also easy to miss important [Read More ...]

Kobo is Listing eBook Formats Again, Also Has Another Go at Posting Book Reviews

10 December, 2014 // 6 Comments

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 vanished in its last [Read More ...]

How Not to Respond to Negative Reviews: The Kathleen Hale Edition

18 October, 2014 // 83 Comments

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, author Kathleen Hale [Read More ...]

How Not to Respond to Negative Reviews: The Anne Rice Edition

29 April, 2013 // 31 Comments

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 the author responded to the review is [Read More ...]

The Silent History is So Innovative That it Uses Century-Old Ideas

7 October, 2012 // 4 Comments

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 startup publishing house of Ying, Horowitz & [Read More ...]

Book Review: Bottom of the Ninth

23 September, 2012 // 2 Comments

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 to have stalled, the prologue is [Read More ...]

Book Review: 56 Broken Kindle Screens

21 September, 2012 // 3 Comments

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 the mechanical fact of their [Read More ...]