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Amazon is Talking About Opening Retail Stores in Germany – What, Again?
Over the past few years Amazon has repeatedly been queried by the press about opening retail stores in Germany. (I see I have written about this is December 2015 and December 2017, making this almost...
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Library Extension Turns Amazon.com Into a Branch of Your Local Library
A reader has tipped me to a Chrome extension which lets users browse Amazon.com and see if a book or ebook is available at their local library. It's called Library Extension, and you can find it in the...
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Amazon Launches Audible Suno App in India
Amazon launched a new audiobook app in India about a month ago. The Audible Suno app, which is available exclusively in India, features more than 60 original and exclusive series in both Hindi and...
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Updates From CES 2020 (#1): Lenovo’s E-ink Laptop, Hisense’s Color E-ink...
CES has grown to be a trade show attended only by the most brave or foolhardy (plus a few blackmail victims). I stopped going a few years ago when it got to be too much, but I still follow it from...
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“Kill Sticky Headers” Cleans Up Webpages for a Better Browsing Experience
I was going to write a post today about a new "reading mode" Chrome extension that Boing Boing found, but then I noticed that they only posted about it so they could sell it to me. So instead I want to...
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Morning Coffee – 13 January 2019
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Why we love untranslatable concepts. Here are a few tips on managing a 500-title ebook library. Mike Shatzkin has year zero thoughts about the...
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The Kindle is On Sale Again – at Black Friday Prices ($85 for the Paperwhite)
Amazon is having another sale today on their Kindles. Kindle prices have been reduced to Black Friday levels, making this sale the best deal you can get for a new Kindle (until the President's Day...
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Scribd Continues to Steal From Former Subscribers
There's an old joke in tech circles that the only reason that AOL was still profitable at the end was that the company was still receiving auto-payments from bank accounts belong to the deceased and...
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Audible Settles with Publishers in Audible Caption Lawsuit
Remember that lawsuit from last August over Audible's new captioning feature, the feature that everyone is publishing was soooo absolutely certain was infringing on copyright? Well, the publishers...
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Kindle Unlimited Per-Page Rate Fell in December 2019
Amazon announced on Wednesday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by one hundred thousand dollars in December 2019, to $26.3 million, from $261. million in November 2019. At the same time...
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Morning Coffee – 20 January 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The state of Missouri wants to stop kids from reading (or bring back book burning). Library Journal reports on a survey that shows the youngest...
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Penguin Random House Pulls eBooks and Audiobooks From Netflix-Style...
PRH is backing out of its contracts with ebook and audiobook subscription services. Last week they pulled their ebooks from several Europe-based Kindle Unlimited competitors, and now they are pulling...
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Infographic: 50+ Fascinating Language Facts You Didn’t Know
Are you looking for interesting language facts? You've come to the right place! The following infographic details over 50 interesting facts about various languages. Here are six that aren't in the...
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Morning Coffee – 27 January 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. Ten things you probably didn't know about CS Lewis. The NY Times makes an argument for the singular they. Werner Herzog is perfectly okay with...
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Guest Post: Ten and a Half Commandments of Writing
Every author is asked by new writers for advice. There is, however, no all-encompassing, single answer that also happens to be correct. Quite a lot of commonly offered suggestions (“write every day”)...
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Amazon is Recording Everything You Do On Your Kindle – Here’s How to Request...
I am sure you know that Amazon tracks what you do on the Kindle and in the Kindle app - after all, Amazon can't store your notes and highlights without first recording them. But what you might not...
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More Americans Went to the Library Than to the Movies Last Year (Or So They Say)
A recent Gallup poll showed that visiting the local library was the most the most frequent cultural activity Americans engaged in in 2019: Visiting the library remains the most common cultural...
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Getting to the Bottom of the “Amazon Said Libraries Hurt eBook Sales” Rumor
Who wants to help me chase down a rumor and see if there's nay truth to it? For the last 8 months or so everyone in publishing (except for me) has been saying that Amazon was going around and telling...
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Amazon Paid Out Over $300 Million in Royalties via Kindle Unlimited Last Year
In 2019, authors and indie publishers earned more than $300 million from the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select Global Fund, Amazon announced last week. In total, Amazon has paid out more than $1.1...
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Monday Coffee – 3 February 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. David Gaughran questions the value of going viral. Salinger tried to secretly publish a book in 1996, but he didn't count on Amazon seeing the...
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