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Move Over BookBub, Fussy Librarian – Goodreads is Getting Into eBook Discounts

17 May, 2016 // 18 Comments

Amazon announced on Tuesday that Goodreads is launching Goodreads Deals, a daily email newsletter which offers GR members discounted ebook deals personalized to the books listed in their shelves. [Read More ...]

Daily eBook Deals Are Yesterday’s News, And Tomorrow’s Marketing Tool

29 December, 2015 // 2 Comments

The Wall Street Journal has just noticed what authors and publishers have known since at least 2012, that email marketing still works wonders. The WSJ published an article yesterday which focused on [Read More ...]

Yahoo Mail is Barring Ad-Block Users From Seeing Their Emails

19 November, 2015 // 22 Comments

Digiday reports, and several reports on Twitter and the Ad Block Plus forums confirm, that Yahoo has started blocking ad-block users from viewing their inboxes. Instead, a user is shown this: When [Read More ...]

Penguin Random House Launches LitFlash, a BookBub Competitor

4 August, 2015 // 13 Comments

There are approximately eleventy bajillion websites that help you find cheap reads, and if that's not enough then you might be interested the latest project from Penguin Random House. Yesterday a [Read More ...]

Audible Onebook Lets You Share, Recommend Audiobooks With Your Friends

30 July, 2015 // 4 Comments

With the Audio Publishers Association estimating that the audiobook market was worth $1.47 billion last year (and growing fast, according to independent reports), more people are using audiobooks [Read More ...]

Baen Books Reveals Amazon’s Byzantine Policies on Kindle Email Delivery

15 June, 2015 // 15 Comments

When I first reported a few weeks ago that Baen Books was one of the publishers which was no longer going to email deliver the ebooks you buy from it to your Kindle, I was the one and only news site [Read More ...]

Gmail for Android Gets a Unified Inbox

30 March, 2015 // 0 Comments

Gmail has long supported pulling in email from other email services, but unless you wanted to combine both business and personal accounts into one account (a no-no) it's never been easy to manage [Read More ...]

Inbox by Google Comes to the iPad, Also Now Available in Safari and Firefox

19 February, 2015 // 8 Comments

Google's bid to reinvent the email client is still invite only (I have a couple invites to share), but it's now available on the iPad. The ad network announced on Thursday that it was rolling out a [Read More ...]

Amazon Wants to Handle Your Work Email, While TL;DR Wants to Shorten It

28 January, 2015 // 2 Comments

Pundits may be proclaiming that email is dead, but with everyone from Dropbox (bought an email startup) to Google (launched a new app) to Amazon (just launched a service) throwing money around it's [Read More ...]

ReadZap Wants to Deliver Your Next Read to Your Inbox

18 August, 2014 // 3 Comments

Are you running short of reading material on your mobile device and looking to get more delivered to your inbox? Me neither, but just for the sake of moving this post along, let me show you ReadZap. [Read More ...]

Dropbox’s Solution to the Email Problem is Now Available for Android

9 April, 2014 // 4 Comments

A year after buying the email management app Mailbox, today Dropbox launched Mailbox for Android. Have you ever been annoyed by the clunky sorting options in the average email client? Mailbox is the [Read More ...]