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Morning Coffee – 14 September 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Dictionary.com has revised 15,000+ definitions. Evidence suggests blue-light filters do not actually help your sleep rhythms. Sarah Manavis fails to...
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Audible Escape is Being Shut Down on 1 November
Audible sent out an email on Tuesday, informing authors and users that it was shutting down Audible Escape subscription service. (Thanks, Isobel!) Here’s the email that was sent to authors: Audible...
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool, Per-Page Rate Rose in August 2020
Amazon announced on Tuesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool for August 2020 totaled $32.6 million, up two hundred grand from July. At the same, the royalty paid for each page increased to...
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Amazon Rebrands Amazon Freetime Unlimited as Amazon Kids+
Amazon’s kid-centric subscription service is old enough that its earliest users are now attending college. And just like empty-nesters who remodel a kid’s old room into a den, Amazon is changing...
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Sargent Out at Macmillan
John Sargent is being let go from his position as CEO of Macmillan, and it probably has to do with the policies he set for ebooks. Sargent is leaving Macmillan on 1 January. The president of...
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Morning Coffee – 21 September 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Cory Doctorow continues to beat the drum re Amazon’s audiobook and ebook monopolies. Mike Shatzkin parses James Daunt’s speech at the BISG meeting...
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The Boox Max Lumi Sports a 13.3″ Screen with Frontlight (video)
Onyx announced two new ereaders yesterday, and they also recently filed FCC paperwork for three more (more posts are coming, yes). One of the new devices is an updated Boox Max model with a frontlight...
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Onyx Boox Note Air has a 10.3″ E-ink Screen, Color-Changing Frontlight (video)
Onyx launched two new ereaders on Sunday. The first is the Lumi, and the second is the Boox Note Air. The Note Air is an update to Onyx”s 10.3″ ereader which adds an improved frontlight, better CPU,...
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Onyx Boox Poke 3, Nova 3, Note 3 Clear the FCC
In addition to announcing a couple new ereaders yesterday, Onyx recently also filed FCC paperwork for three additional ereaders. All three are updates for existing models, but have not been formally...
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Audible Launches Netflix-Style Audiobook Services in Spain and Italy
Just under a month ago Amazon launched a limited “all you can listen” service in the US called Audible Plus. It cost $8 per month and let you access around 11,000 titles. Now news comes to us via TNPS...
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Calibre 5.0 Adds Highlighting, Python Update
Calibre just hit a major milestone. The ebook library tool usually gets a maintenance update on Fridays, but today’s update was the 5.0 release. According to the changelog, the two major changes for...
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Morning Coffee – 28 September 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Some were surprised to learn just how much libraries do beyond lending books. Amazon generated $1.6 billion in profit for the Post Office in 2019....
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Kindle Create Now Outputs POD Book Files
Amazon just took another step towards complete dominance of the book market supply chain. The retailer could already handle everything from production to the retail sale, and now they are moving one...
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Monday Morning Coffee – 5 October 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. SyFy has a great overview of evil books in cinema and literature. There’s a movement to stop italicizing non-English words, but it has yet to reach...
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Morning Coffee – 12 October 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Glamour went behind the scenes at a cover shoot for a romance book cover. A satirical article by Raymond Chandler is due to be published soon....
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Amazon Kindle Oasis Now $175 (for Prime Subscribers)
Today is Prime Day, which is basically a version of Black Friday where Amazon offers deals exclusively to Amazon Prime subscribers. While some of Amazon’s “sales” are fairly run of the mill, today’s...
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All of Barnes & Noble’s Computer Systems Are Down, and I do Mean All of Them
Barnes & Noble is going through the mother of all system crashes right now. Some time late Friday night or early Saturday morning the retailer’s entire IT backbone crashed, and it took almost all...
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Google Play Books Now Pays a 70% Royalty in 60+ Countries
Back in July Google started testing new royalty terms in the US, Canada, and Australia, and now they are expanding the terms to cover all markets. Google sent out an email on Tuesday, informing...
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How to Set Up Daily Website Backups – the Right Way
Daily backups are one of the fundamental tools every website owner should have in their toolbox. Not only will it let you fix your mistakes by letting you restore a backup copy of the site, and gives...
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Barnes & Noble is Now Informing Customers About Data Stolen During Saturday’s...
So it turns out that my suspicions about B&N’s server issues over the weekend were in fact correct. The retailer was hacked, and has confirmed that customer information, including email addresses...
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