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Kindle Firmware Update 5.12.2
Back in July Amazon released a firmware update that added a "read now" feature to the before you go section found in the back of Kindle ebooks. Now they are adding a couple additional quick access...
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Users Hate Calibre 4.0’s New eBook Viewer
If you use calibre to manage your ebook library and are fond of its ebook reading function, you might want to hold off on the latest update. Calibre 4.0 was released on Friday. According to the...
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Did You Know Calibre Can Make Epub 3 eBooks?
I was working on the calibre 4.0 post this morning when I discovered a new calibre feature. Well, it's not new so much as I hadn't noticed it before. It seems that in May 2018 calibre gained the...
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Monday Morning Coffee – 7 October 2019
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Why do we feel so compelled to make maps of fictional worlds. The original Grimm's fairy tales were rather gruesome fare (the original Pinocchio was...
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New Kindle Fire HD 10 Gets a Specs Bump, Keeps the Same Price
That Kindle Fire tablet that showed up at the FCC in July now has a name, a price, and a launch date. Amazon announced on Monday that the next Kindle Fire HD 10 will ship on 30 October, with a retail...
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New Kindle Kids Edition Costs $109
In addition to launching a new Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon also released a new Kindle Kids edition bundle. The $89 entry-level Kindle released in March is now available as a $109 Kids edition bundle....
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Kindle Voyage On Sale for $69 at Woot
I don't know where Amazon keeps finding these things, but they have the Voyage on sale again at Woot. The five year old Kindle Voyage is available as a refurb for $69. It is the Wifi model and has...
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How to be a Better Podcast Guest (Updated)
Virtually every marketing expert agrees that if you want to get your message out there in 2018, podcasts are the way to go. We're told we need to launch our own podcasts, or at the very least be...
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How to Vet Podcast Guests
I am in the early stages of launching a podcast called The Website in a Box show. My show is going to explain why websites are built the way they are, but before I can launch that show I first have to...
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Kindle for iOS v6.23 Adds Library eBook Filter
Did you know that iOS no longer tells you when you have an app that has an update? I just learned that myself today when I heard that the Kindle iOS app was updated a couple weeks ago, and no one...
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Morning Coffee – 14 october 2019
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. This browser extension lets you insert zero-width characters in text you post online, and can be used to find the characters embedded by others....
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Has Anyone Used Hometown Reads?
I was at the James River Writers conference this past weekend. Even though it was the type of conference where "writer" was a synonym "book author", I still learned bunches. I plan to share what I...
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Tor.com’s Free eBook for October 2019 is K Arsenault Rivera’s “The Tiger’s...
Tor.com's ebook of the month club is giving away K Arsenault Rivera's The Tiger's Daughter. The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach—but failed to notice a lurking darkness...
View ArticleThe Lost Art of Paste-Up (video)
Here's a bit of the past that I bet even the book-sniffing fetishists won't miss. Back before we used computers to lay out the text of a book, magazine, or newspaper, publishers used various methods to...
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Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Skyrocketed in September 2019
Amazon announced on Tuesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by one hundred thousand dollars in September 2019, to $25.9 million, from $25.8 million in August 2019. At the same time...
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ISBN Registrations Jump 40% After Cretaespace is Merged Into KDP Print
Bowker, the private company responsible for issuing ISBNs in the US, released its annual report on the number ISBN's sold last year. The data doesn't tell us as much as some would think, but it did...
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You Tell Me: Do You Have an On-The-Go Writing Solution?
I got an email this morning from Astrohaus, and it got me thinking about writing while on the go. Astrohaus is a startup that makes a couple pricy devices under the Freewrite brand. The first model...
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Monday Morning Coffee – 21 October 2019
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The day has finally arrived: You can buy books written by AI. Part of the World's first novel has been found in a chest in Tokyo. Here are ten...
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November is National Podcast Post Month – Why Not Launch One?
Everyone knows (in my circles, anyway) that November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. This is an annual event where aspiring authors commit to writing the first draft of a novel....
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Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Are On Sale
Amazon has put the Kindle on sale again this week. The Kindle Paperwhite is selling for $89, and the basic Kindle has been marked down to $64.99. What's more, the covers for the Paperwhite and the...
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