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Monday Coffee – 13 July 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Amazon and a number of publishers have filed suit against a pirate ebook site. Ingram is expanding its POD capacity. Students at the University of...
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Did You Know the Kindle Fire Has a Secret Profanity Filter That Blocks George...
Remember how everyone used to make fun of Apple because iOS had a puritanical keyboard filter that automatically corrected “fuck” to duck”? Get ready to snicker at Amazon. I was browsing Twitter this...
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Kobo Nia Replaces the Aura 2 as Kobo’s Entry-Level eReader
Remember how I shared all the relevant info on the Kobo Nia about three weeks ago? Alas, that didn’t really leave me much to say about today’s launch. Yes, the Nia is Kobo’s new budget model. It is...
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Kobo Plus Launches in Canada
Remember how I told you a couple months ago that Kobo would launch its subscription ebook service in North America? It’s starting to happen. Kobo launched Kobo Plus in Canada on Wednesday morning. Or...
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Google Books Ngram Viewer Updated – Now Includes Books Published as Late as 2019
I was just reading on a mailing list for editors, Copyediting-L, that Google has updated the Ngram Viewer. Here’s the original announcement from Twitter: The Google Books Ngram Viewer has now been...
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Barnes & Noble to Open Full-Sized Bookstore in Rockville, Maryland
Given that B&N has opened a smaller format store in Fredericksburg, a restaurant bookstore in Asuburn, and a small-footprint store in Fairfax, as well as many other small bookstores across the...
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Monday Morning Coffee – 20 July 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. JK Rowling’s book sales fell in mid-June. Emily Temple wonders why some people care so much about how other people arrange their bookshelves. The...
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Kindles and Kindle Fires Are On Sale
Amazon is having another sale on its ereaders and Android tablets this week. If you act fast you will be able to get the basic Kindle or the Kindle Paperwhite for $20 off. You can also find Kindle Fire...
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You Can Get on the Sunday Times’s Best-Seller List by Selling Fewer Than 2K...
I know everyone is upset that Mark Dawson has publicly admitted to buying his way on to a best-seller list, but I for one was surprised to learn that the bar was so low. From The Guardian: Take the...
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No, B&N Didn’t Stop Selling Android Tablets
There’s a report from the blog known for its “exclusive” hardware stories that Barnes & Noble has stopped selling Android tablets. Their story implies that B&N has gotten put of Android...
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Cartoon Network and Star Trek Panels at San Diego Comic-Con Were Blocked by...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that large automated content filters do not function well at all, and the only thing keeping such a system from screwing up is constant human supervision. Alas,...
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Copyright Bots Are Now Going After Bot-Written Parody Songs (Well, One Song)
Did you see the story this past week about AI-written parody song lyrics were DMCA-ed from Twitter? I for one don’t think it’s been reported accurately. From Vice: Georgia Tech researcher Mark Riedl...
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Go Change Your Wattpad Password
Wattpad may have been the victim of a security breach some time in the past few months, so you may want to go change your password: We are aware of reports that some user data has been accessed...
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NPD: Publisher eBook Unit Sales Rose in April 2020
Earlier this week NPD confirmed what the AAP had lead us to expect (and many had assumed would happen): publisher ebook sales rose in the US in April compared to March 2020 and to April 2019. NPD is...
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Monday Morning Coffee – 27 July 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. I find Brewster Kahle’s attempts to mischaracterize the Internet Archive’s recent actions to be infuriating, but the fact he choose to fib makes me...
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Pocketbook Touch Lux 5 Ships Soon in Europe, Costs 125 Euros
Pocketbook has just announced its newest entry-level ereader. The Pocketbook Touch Lux 5 features a Carta E-ink screen. It runs Pocketbook’s software on a dual-core CPU with 512MB RAM and 8GB RAM. Its...
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Pocketbook Color Launched in Europe – 6″ Color E-ink Screen, 199 Euros
Pocketbook’s long-awaited second color ereader has arrived. On Monday Pocketbook announced the Pocketbook Color, or PB 633. This ereader sports a 6″ color E-ink screen capable of displaying either...
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Hands On With the Pocketbook Color
Pocketbook’s newest ereader arrived on my doorstep yesterday. I’ve had a day to play with it, and while I am impressed with its speed and svelte design, I am not sold on its main feature. The...
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew by $33.4 million in the First Half of 2020
At the request of a reader, I am restarting the monthly posts about Kindle Unlimited funding. I will go back to the standard format next month, but for now I will have a quick summary to bring...
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eBook VAT Has Been Changed in the EU At Least 8 Times This Year
Everyone has heard that the UK reduced the tax collected on the sale of books earlier this year, but did you know they were not the only ones? I was just browsing the KDP community when I noticed...
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