Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is Coming to Hulu – But Will She Be Able to See It?

Deadline Hollywood reports that Hulu has ordered a full season of The Handmaid's Tale, with Elizabeth Moss (West Wing, MadMen) attached to star. It's set to debut in 2017, and based on the summary this series will be an even looser adaptation than the 1990 movie: Adapted from Atwood’s novel, The...

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How to Find Free and Open Source Fonts for E-ink Screens

The recent news about Amazon's new Ember font has sparked a renewed interest in fonts for E-ink screens. Last weekend I posted instructions on how to install fonts on a Kobo ereader, and at the request of a reader I have now pulled together a collection of fonts which users can install in their...

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Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” is Coming to the Small Screen

After more than a decade of waiting, it looks the tv adaptation of Robert Jordan's epic The Wheel of Time series is finally moving forward. Harriet McDougal, widow of author Robert Jordan, has announced on Google+ that last year's legal problems have been resolved: Wanted to share with you exciting...

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Startup Wants Pubs to Give Up On Choosing Books, Outsource the Decision to a Computer

Over the past few years Macmillan, Amazon, and other publishers have experimented with letting readers pick which titles should be published, and now a startup has convinced Macmillan to let a computer program pick the next book it should publish. Flavorwire reports that Tor-Forge Books has signed...

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Amazon Sees Entirely Expected Surge in Tablet Sales as Global Market Shrinks 14%

Amazon is getting a lot of press coverage this morning thanks to IDC's latest estimates of global tablet shipments for the first quarter of 2016. According  to IDC's analysts, Amazon saw a stupendous increase in tablet shipments. I, on the other hand, am less than surprised. From ZDNet: Tablet...

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Amazon Profit Crushes Estimates as Cloud Services Revenue Soars

Amazon.com on Thursday reported profit and revenue that blew past analysts' expectations, sending its shares soaring in after-hours trading and demonstrating the growing market power of its core retail business and new cloud services division. The results draw a sharp contrast to the disappointing...

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Morning Coffee – 29 April 2016

Here are ten stories to read this morning. Amazon To Open Pick-Up Center In Storrs Center (Hartford Courant) Channillo: A Serial Reading Service Good For Authors and Readers (Juli Monroe) A Guide to Binging Digital Comics (Inverse) Joan is an E-ink Smart Sign (The Digital Reader) New Research Shows...

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Think Adult Coloring Books Are “Childish” and “A Cry For Help”? Not According to CS Lewis

Whether the victim is YA, romance, or what have you, snobbishly looking down one's nose at certain types of readers is a common past time in the book world. Now users of coloring books have been selected as the next target of disapproval. Quartz published an article on Sunday which says that those...

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First 3rd-Party Kindle Oasis Cases Scheduled for May Release,

One has to be careful whenever a hot mobile device is launched that one doesn't get tricked into buying knockoff cases made by companies which have never seen the device in question. This has been a problem ever since the first iPad, and we were seeing it again before the Kindle Oasis launched, but...

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No, Amazon Has Not Delisted HarperCollins eBooks Worldwide

There's a story going around today to the effect that Amazon has removed all HarperCollins ebooks from all Kindle Stores in the world. I won't waste your time getting into it, but that story is false. While this sounds like repeat of Amazon's past negotiations with publishers, the current facts...

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Kindle Oasis Review Round-Up

Amazon's latest and most expensive ereader officially started arriving yesterday in consumer's hands yesterday while at the same time the reviews have started showing up online. Unless Google has suddenly started failing me there are far fewer reviews than expected, but they generally say the same...

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Morning Coffee – 28 April 2016

Here are nine stories to read this morning. 3rd Party cover for Kindle Oasis coming in May – without a battery (The eBook Evangelist) Amazon Found Liable For Unfairly Billing Parents For Kids’ In-App Purchases (Consumerist) Amazon Giveth, Amazon Taketh Away and Now… Amazon Giveth Again! (The Book...

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Amazon, Best Buy Put Fire Tablets and Kindle eReaders On Sale for Mother’s Day

Amazon has a treat for those who feel the $290 Kindle Oasis is too expensive for their tastes. The retailer has marked down the price of the Kindle ereaders and Fire tablets in a Mother's Day sale, and they've authorized Best Buy to do the same. Best Buy has knocked $20 off the price of the Wifi...

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How to Send Epub to Your Kindle by Email

Amazon offers a free conversion service where you can send documents to your Kindle, but there is a problem: it doesn't work with Epub files. Even though there are services you can use to automatically send DRM-free files to your Kindle account from Dropbox and other cloud services, Amazon still...

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Text-to-Speech Voice Found on the Kindle Oasis

When the first Kindle Oasis leaks and the FCC paperwork which showed that the $290 Oasis had Bluetooth, many hoped that was a sign that it would support audio through a BT speaker. Now Amazon has just raised that from a hope to a strong probability. SelfPublisherBibel.de reports this morning that...

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Barnes & Noble Founder Len Riggio to Step Down in September

Len Riggio is going to be stepping away this year from the book retail empire he built and acquired. From the WSJ: Book retailer Leonard Riggio said in an interview Tuesday that he will step down as executive chairman of Barnes & Noble Inc., following the company’s annual meeting scheduled for...

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Morning Coffee – 27 April 2016

Here are thirteen stories to read this morning. Amazon's Audible debuts terrifying 'Alien' videos to tout sci-fi book series (Mashable) The Amazon Kindle Oasis Is A Beautiful Waste (Review) (HuffPost) A Cautionary Tale, Part 2 (madgeniusclub) Copyright chaos: Why isn’t Anne Frank’s diary free now?...

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eBook Guilt, or Is My Kindle Reading Harming My Beloved Community Bookstore?

Some readers have long wrestled with the the morality of buying used books and buying books online in place of shopping at their local bookstore, and now this sense of guilt has spread to ebooks. Writing over at the Huffington Post, Heather Garbo expresses concern for how she is neglecting her...

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God Bless the Coloring Books – AAP Reports Trade Revenues Up in 2015, eBooks Down

The Association of American Publishers has released its year end report for 2015, and the news is mixed. Total trade revenues were up a fraction of a percent, to $7.2 billion, while  overall publisher revenue for 2015 was down 2.6%, to $15.4 billion. eBooks in particular dropped over 10%, as you...

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Onyx Boox Bering 3 Android eReader – $99

Onyx mainly comes to the attention of the west when they unveil high-end ereaders like the Kepler Pro or the Max, but in Russia they are also experimenting with budget models for the low end of the market. Take, for example, the Bering 3. This ereader runs Android 4.2 on a fast CPU, but lacks a...

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Amazon Files Suit Against Sellers of Fake Reviews

Amazon filed its third round of lawsuits against purveyors of fake product reviews last week. Geekwire and the Seattle Times report that the retailer is suing the alleged owner/operator of “Amazon Verified Reviews" as well as four other sites which are allegedly selling Amazon reviews. Amazon is...

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Are Authors Really Losing Out in the Kindle Unlimited Pay-Per-Page Scam – Or Is It Amazon?

As The Guardian and other parts of the mainstream media begin to notice the month and a half old story on the Kindle Unlimited page count scam, it's time that we consider just who is being harmed. In early March David Gaughran discovered, and Amazon confirmed, that scammers were taking advantage of...

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Amazon Launches the White Kindle Paperwhite in China, Japan

Early last year Amazon quietly launched a white basic Kindle in China and Japan (and later, Europe) and now they're following suit with the Kindle Paperwhite. On Tuesday Amazon launched a new Kindle Paperwhite model in China and Japan. The new white Kindle Paperwhite sports the same 300 PPI screen,...

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Morning Coffee – 26 April 2016

Here are six stories to read this morning. 6 Essential Tips for Legally Using Images (copyrightlaws.com) 10 Grammar Mistakes People Love To Correct (That Aren't Actually Wrong) (Gizmodo Australia) Doxing isn't about privacy—it's about abuse (DailyDot) E-books take over dominant role from paper...

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An Open Letter to B&N, Or When One Form Rejection Letter is Falsely Extrapolated Into a Policy

Over the past few days an open letter  has been circulating in digital publishing circles. Author Cambria Hebert lambastes Barnes & Noble for its "policy" of refusing to carry indie titles in its stores. I got a form letter in the mail today. A rejection. I will say, it was a much friendlier...

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B&N Education Has Pulled the Nook Displays From its Stores

B&N Education is reaping a new benefit from its split with the retail half of Barnes & Noble last year. Last month B&N Ed shut down Yuzu, the blighted digital textbook platform that B&N Ed took with it during the spin off, and now the company is chucking the Nook hardware. Teleread...

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Machine Supply is a Vending Machine Which Sells Books

The BBC brings us the news about Machine Supply, a new web-connected book vending machine from Matt Webb. Traditional book shops are under increasing threat from the digitisation of both the product and the market place. But one tech entrepreneur has bucked the trend, combining the physical and the...

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Infographic: Fourteen Amazing Shakespeare Facts (Including a False One)

Saturday marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. In honor of that milestone, CBC Books pulled together an infographic consisting of fourteen "of the wackiest, weirdest and most wonderful facts about the Bard". One of these facts is not correct. Do you know which one? I'll...

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Morning Coffee – 25 April 2016

Here are eight stories to read this morning. Blind date book bundles (Skinny Punk Rogers) Google Case Ends, but Copyright Fight Goes On (PW) Has mobile technology changed how you buy books and e-books? (TeleRead) Here’s What a Pulitzer Prize Does for a Book’s Amazon Sales Rank (MONEY) Shakespeare...

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Amazon Confirms Fire Tablet De-Registration Problem – Also, How To Protect Yourself

Amazon has yet to come out and explicitly confirm that some of its tablets have been spontaneously developing amnesia, but on Saturday Amazon did tacitly admit that this was a widespread problem. eBook Evangelist noticed that Amazon had posted the following message in its official support forums:...

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Can’t Stand the Long Wait for Your Kindle Oasis? Get it at Best Buy

Many electrons have given their lives to bring you the news that Amazon's latest ereader is facing a shipping delay of weeks and months, but you shouldn't give up hope just yet. While the Kindle Oasis is set to officially ship three days from now, many buyers are reporting that they're going to...

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Battle of Hydraulic Press v Book Ends in Pyrrhic Victory (video)

The Hydraulic Press channel is one of those examples of what happens when engineers have access to industrial equipment and too much time on their hands (see the Slingshot channel for another example). The operator of that channel has become famous in certain circles by crushing various mundane...

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How to install Bookerly, Ember, Roboto, and Other Fonts on Kobo eReaders

Thursday's news about Amazon's new font, Ember, inspired me to go find instructions on how to install it on an ereader. While you can't install custom fonts on a Kindle or a Fire tablet without hacking them, it's relatively easy to  install fonts on Kobo ereaders. Sidenote: Did you know you can...

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Amazon Survey Results in a Disjointed Collection of Factoids About Reading in China

Apple chose the wrong time to get their ebookstore shut down in China. China Daily reports Amazon China and the Xinhua News Agency have released a reading survey in celebration of World Book Day on Saturday (in China, that would be yesterday already). I can't find the source of the survey on the...

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Palm Foleo Lives Again as the Superbook, NexDock

Mobile pioneer Palm's last product before it was acquired (and then smothered) by HP was a thin-client netbook called the Foleo. Designed to be paired with a Palm smartphone, the Foleo could do little on its own and didn't last long enough to live up to its potential. It was poorly received, and...

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Cheap “Touchable Ink” Could Drastically Lower the Cost of Printing Reading Braille

Only a tiny fraction of the visually impaired population reads Braille, and that is in part due to the fact that Braille printers can cost anywhere from $1800 to $80,000. Now researchers at J. Walter Thompson (Bangkok) in Thailand have found what could prove to be a cheaper option. They've...

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Google Play Books v3.8 Adds New Search Bar New Notifications For Favorite Authors New Icon

Google rolled out an update for Play Books last week which added a number of visual and functional changes to the app. To start with, the app has gained a notification option in the settings menu so you can keep up on your favorite authors. And there's now an option in the settings menu to use the...

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Amazon Reportedly Actively Recruiting Publishers into Kindle Unlimited

About six months back I broke the news that a number of smaller publishers had followed indie authors into signing up for Kindle Unlimited, and were being paid by the page. Now it seems Amazon is looking to grow that number. The Bookseller has a piece up this morning which makes the bold claim that...

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Fire Tablets Are Spontaneously Lobotomizing Themselves With Factory Resets

Multiple reports are coming in this week about an epidemic of spontaneous factory resets of Amazon's Android tablets. Dozens of Fire tablet owners from across the web, Amazon's support forums, and even the comment section of this blog are reporting that they are turning on their tablets and...

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Apples iBooks and iTunes Movies Go Dark in China

Apple's online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms. Attempts by Reuters, Tech in Asia, and other news orgs on Friday to access Apple's iBooks Store and iTunes Movies...

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Morning Coffee – 22 April 2016

Here are nine stories to read this morning. 8 Times Tumblr's Wizarding World Was Better Than Pottermore's (BookRiot) Amazon Lands Major Account: New York City Public Schools (PW) Business Musings: Know Your Rights (Contracts/Dealbreakers) (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) Could we legally crack our own...

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McDonalds to Install Samsung Tablets in Restaurants in the UK

Remember way back when pizzerias had tabletop Pac-Man games you could play while you ate? McDonald's does, and they're bringing the idea into the 21st century. PCR reports that McDonald's is going to test Samsung Galaxy tablets in its restaurants in the UK: Fast food chain McDonald’s is installing...

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What do You Think of Amazon’s New Font Ember?

Ember bookerly Early last year Amazon released a firmware update for the Fire tablets with a custom serif font, Bookerly, which was developed exclusively for Amazon's use on its Kindle platform. Now Amazon is about to release a sans-serif font, and you can get an early look. When the Kindle...

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Alan Trotter’s “All This Rotting” Features Text Which Decays as You Read It

Editions at Play is an ongoing partnership between Google and print book designers Visual Editions which seeks to invent the future of ebooks as websites. The first couple titles were released in February, and the fourth title was published this week. All This Rotting is a piece of experimental...

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Amazon Upgrades Storage on Fire Kids Edition Tablet Won’t Be Replacing It This Year

Amazon has just signaled that they won't be replacing either of their two cheapest tablet models this year. The retailer has put out a press release on Thursday touting the news that they had bumped the storage on the one Fire tablet model that needed it the most. When it originally launched in...

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Onyx Boox Kepler Pro Coming Soon – Android 4.0 Waterproof Flush-Mounted Carta E-ink Screen

Here's an interesting addendum to yesterday's ereader video from Charbax. Regular TDR commenter Hrafn has identified the 6" ereader shown late in that video, and posted the info over at MobileRead. It's called the Kepler, and Onyx has already posted the product listing. There are going to be three...

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Morning Coffee – 21 April 2016

Here are seven stories to read this morning. Authors Guild, Electronic Frontier Foundation remain miles apart regarding fair use (Talking New Media) Books Cannot Become Mere ‘Content’ (The Passive Voice) Canadian Libraries' Progress on Ebook Pricing: Penguin Random House Leads the Way (Publishing...

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Onyx’s New eReaders for 2016 (video)

Charbax caught up with Chinese ereader maker Onyx at the HKTDC Electronics Fair earlier this month, and he got a look at several of Onyx's current ereaders as well as an unannounced waterproof 6" model. Onyx's first 13.3" ereader, the Boox Max, is shown in the video, as well as both of Onyx's...

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Will Google Ever Reopen Its eBook Publisher Portal?

Earlier today someone made the unsubstantiated declaration that Google had closed its publisher portal "forever". While there is zero evidence to back up that assertion, I fear that it will be proven correct. It was around this time last year that I broke the news that Google had a...

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Barnes & Noble Kobo Have Shut Down Their HTML5 Reading Apps

In 2011 browser-based HTML5 reading apps were hailed as a rebuff to Apple's demand for a vig. Everyone from Kobo to Nook to Kindle were releasing their own app, and there were even a couple independent platforms like Bookish. The ebook market was showing every sign of going for web apps over native...

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Bluefire Datalogics Are Now Using Sony’s DADC eBook DRM

Thanks to its dominance in non-Kindle ereaders Adobe is the biggest name in ebook DRM, but it's not the only name. Some niche app developers like Oyster (and even Kobo) have adopted or developed alternate DRM solutions, and now the practice has spread to two of Adobe's leading partners. DBW has a...

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Morning Coffee – 20 April 2016

Here are seven stories to read this morning. Authors Guild Petulantly Whines About How Wrong It Is That The Public Will Benefit From Google Books (Techdirt) Digital textbooks prove controversial in Huntsville, Alabama school district (TeleRead) Netflix CEO Describes Publishing’s Dilemma (Thad...

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E-ink is Working on a Turnkey Solution for Secondary Smartphone Screens

One of the niftier features of E-ink is that it is so low-powered that you can wirelessly beam power to a screen whenever it needs to be updated. Back in 2013 I showed a research project and a commercial prototype which used NFC or RF frequencies to power an E-ink screen. Now E-ink is developing a...

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DIY Solar Case for the Kobo Aura H2O

Amazon is reportedly planning to release a solar-powered case for the Kindle Oasis, but thanks to one industrious hacker it's going to be the second premium ereader with a solar case, rather than the first. A Kobo Aura H20 owner has crafted a one of a kind case for their ereader. They combined a...

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GPD Plans to Revive the Handheld PC Form Factor with the WIN (Cherry Trail CPU Windows 10)

Around the turn of the millennium, HP and a few other PC makers were developing pocketable laptops like the Sharp Zauru SL-C760, HP 360LX, or NEC MobilePro 900C. The devices ran either a mobile version of Windows or Linux, and usually sported small keyboards with screens smaller than can be found...

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No Book Publishers ARE NOT Going on a Bizarre Anti-Piracy Rampage

There's a story going around this week about a recent rash of bogus DMCA notices from well-known publishers like Elsevier, S&S, HarperCollins, etc, as well as Pottermore (which for reasons I will explain later is being misidentified as the "Harry Potter publisher"). First reported...

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Morning Coffee – 19 April 2016

Here are seven stories to read this morning. I'm a professional bookbinder. Book-shaped Kindles are just posers (The Guardian) Little Miss Crabby Pants Comes Clean (The Misadventures Of Super Librarian) On the Prehistory of Qwerty (PDF) Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes?...

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Bookbinder Doesn’t Feel Threatened by the Kindle Oasis, and Shouldn’t

The Guardian has given a voice to an old-fashioned bookbinder, Colin Hill Urbina, who quite reasonably spends no time worrying about ereaders: This may come as a shock to the people I meet at parties and relatives I rarely see, but as a professional bookbinder, I don’t devote a lot of thought to...

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Follett Acquires Baker & Taylor

One of the larger book distributors in the US has acquired another. Follett put out a press release on Monday touting the news that it had acquired Baker & Taylor. One is a leading book distributor to schools (Follett also runs college bookstores and has a digital textbook platform) while the...

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US Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Google Book-Scanning Project

The decade-old lawsuit over Google's effort to scan library books and display snippets in search results came to an end this week. The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by a group of authors who contended that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online...

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Amazon Launches a $9 a Month Netflix Competitor, Shows Just How Valuable That Market Is

The WSJ (as well as a bunch of other sources) brings us the news that Amazon has launched am $11 a month Prime membership plan as well as a $9 a month competitor to Netflix and Hulu. With an yearly cost of $132, the monthly Prime membership is likely targeted at consumers who can't afford to pay...

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Infographic: Popular Words Invented by Authors

The ever-evolving English language was once described as having "pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary", but that's not its only source of new words. Much to the dismay of school children everywhere, authors have a tendency of...

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Morning Coffee – 18 April 2016

Here are nine stories to read this morning. A Bright Spot in the Digital Divide: Teens Using Smartphones (The Atlantic) David Gaughran Twitter rant fingers Big Publishing-backed book fair scams (TeleRead) Essential Tax Deductions for Writers (Writers Unboxed) How I Learned to Stop Picking Nits and...

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Kindle Oasis FCC Paperwork Show Bluetooth, Audio Support

When Amazon announced their latest ereader last week, they told us it had Wifi, page turn buttons to one side of the screen, and a ridiculously high price tag, but that's not all it can do. Newly uncovered FCC filings have revealed that the Kindle Oasis might have a few hidden abilities. The...

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Kindle Unlimited Payout Holds Steady as Funding Pool Jumps to $14.9 Million

Amazon reported on Friday that Kindle Unlimited funding was up again in March 2016, to $14.9 million. This was up slightly from February, but also less than the $15 million (plus bonuses) paid out in January 2016. In spite of the increase in funding, the per-page rate held steady at $0.00478 per...

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FlexCase Puts an E-ink Screen Inside Your Smartphone Case

About three months back word went around that Microsoft was working on some type of secondary E-ink screen for smartphones. We knew almost nothing about the screen at the time, but this week we got our first look. Gizmodo has turned up a video from one of Microsoft's research teams which shows...

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3M Cloud Library now Available for Chromebooks

I was updating my post on Chrome as a reading platform this morning when I came across a previously unannounced Chrome app. The 3M Cloud Library (which is now owned by Bibliotheca and needs to be rebranded) now has an app for Chromebooks. The app is not compatible with the Chrome web browser, but...

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Baen Books Adds Multiple Book Download Option

The SF/Fantasy publisher Baen Books reminded us again this week why they are the only decent ebook retailer outside of Amazon. Baen has added a new download option to its ebookstore, BaeneBooks.com. We have long had the option of downloading an entire order's worth of ebooks as a single ZIP file of...

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Report: That Shortened URL You Just Shared Could Also be a Shortcut to Your Sensitive info

URL shorteners are a great way to clean up long and messy links and share them, but their use comes with a security warning: don't click on links from people you don't know/trust. Now we have a new rule: don't use one to share personal documents or information which may compromise your privacy. A...

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Do You Want Page Turn Buttons on Your eReader?

It may be hard to remember this in 2016, when the Paperwhite has become the archetypal ebook reader, but there was a time when ereaders all used to have page turn buttons. The first Kobo ereader, the first Nook, the first four Kindles, and all the Sony Readers all had page turn buttons (even...

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Morning Coffee – 15 April 2016

Here are eight stories to read this morning. 5 Magical Beasts And How To Replace Them With A Shell Script (Charlie's Diary) Amazon says the Kindle Oasis is an e-reader for book lovers. Is it? (Slate) Discriminate or Educate?: Don't Pull Out of States Passing Hate Bills (BookRiot) Facebook Instant...

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Vegans Protest the Mandatory Leather Cover on the Kindle Oasis

Here's a story which could either grow to be a major faux pas for Amazon or simply fizzle out (it's too early to tell). TNW reports on a new petition on Change.org: That didn’t take long – just a little over 24 hours after the Amazon Kindle Oasis officially dropped, the company is already receiving...

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Apple, Facebook Make Arbitrary Demands on News Publishers

When Apple announced Apple News and Facebook announced Instant Articles last year, publishers knew that they would be feeding articles into the tech companies' wall gardens, but they didn't know just how many gates they would have to unlock to do so. Over the past month both Facebook and Apple have...

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Google’s New “Save to Google” Chrome Extension is a Half-Hearted Clone of Pocket, Instapaper

OMGChrome reports that Google has released a new "Save to Google" Chrome extension which looks like it is intended to be a Pocket or Instapaper competitor. The official Chrome Web Store description for the browser bolt-in puts it thusly: Easily save interesting webpages to Google with the new Save...

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Morning Coffee – 14 April 2016

Here are eight stories to read this morning. Audiobooks: Demand surges as tech gets clever (SMH) Bonnier’s Pocket Shop bookshop to enter UK market imminently (The Bookseller) E-book vs. app showdown: 'What to Expect When You're Expecting' pregnancy guide (TeleRead) Facebook Launches Its Own Version...

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Kobo Expands KWL’s Author Services With Editorial, Conversion, Design Services

Kobo announced on Wednesday that it had negotiated deals with digital publishing service companies to offer discounts to authors and publishers who contract through Kobo Writing Life's Author Services. Initially announced in August 2015, Author Services was launched earlier this year to offer...

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The $290 Kindle Oasis Wants to be Your Refuge in a Reading Desert

We have had so many leaks over the past couple weeks that the launch of the Kindle Oasis is almost an anti-climax, but there is still more to report. Amazon's latest ereader went live this morning both on Amazon's site and was announced via a press release. It costs $290 and comes with a...

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Amazon’s Next 8″ Fire Tablet Leaks on Benchmark Site

The Kindle Oasis is getting all the attention today, but it's not the only Amazon hardware leak. There's also the upcoming basic Kindle "Woody", and now new benchmarks have leaked which point to a new Fire tablet. According to the GFX database, the new Fire tablet is an update or replacement for...

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Kindle Oasis to be Announced at 9AM, Could Cost $290 (?)

The latest rumor said that Jeff Bezos would be officially announcing the Kindle Oasis this week, and it looks like CNBC may have let the cat out of the bag. A couple hours ago CNBC broadcast a report which said that the Oasis would be announced today at 9AM (eastern US). The report went on to...

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Morning Coffee – 13 April 2016

Here are nine stories to read this morning. Facebook drops branded content restrictions for publishers (MarketingLand) In Its Fight Against Fake News, Facebook Found A Resilient Foe (BuzzFeed News) Millennials, Diversity Big Topics at BookNet Canada's Annual Tech Forum (PW) Motion book reader...

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Above the Law’s Comment Section Sinks Below the Waves

Talking New Media has brought my attention to the fact that Above the Law announced on Tuesday that it is shutting down its comment section. Starting tomorrow, this legal blog will no longer allow comments to be left on its posts: Today the comments are not what they once were. Although...

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1985 Pop-Up Book Takes Us Inside the PC (video)

The latest pop-up books can take us on a tour of the White House or remind us of the phobias we'd rather forget, but that's nothing compared to what has been published in the past. I've just come across a video for a 30-year-old pop-up book called Inside the Personal Computer. The book takes...

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How to Download and Read eBooks From Google Play Books

Now supported in 60 plus countries, Google Play Books is growing in popularity, but it is still a little difficult to navigate. As I was reminded on MobileRead last week, some users were daunted by process of downloading ebooks so they can be read elsewhere. So here are a set of instructions which...

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Kindle Oasis Leaks on Amazon.Ca, Will Cost $999

When I reported on the leaked Kindle Oasis images this morning I wasn't sure whether they were real or a hoax, but now Amazon has removed all doubt. Someone at Amazon.ca has inadvertently updated the listing for the Kindle Paperwhite with a new comparison. The Kindle Oasis has been added to the...

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How to Read Korean, Japanese, or Chinese Text in Images via Google Translate

Google Translate is an awesomely wonderful tool which lets us read text in other languages. It's built in to Chrome (which is why I stick with that browser), and accessible as a bookmarklet in other web browsers and via a webpage. It's a great tool, but it has a limitation: the browser version...

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Kindle Oasis Leaks in China, Has an Asymmetrical Design

Jeff Bezos promised us we would hear more about the next "top of the line" Kindle this week, and once again we didn't have to wait for official sources. A new leak out of China confirms that the new Kindle Oasis has the battery-case, page turn buttons, and accelerometers mentioned in previous...

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Infographic: The Future, According to Literature

Authors have been predicting the future in their books since Jules Verne wrote In the Year 2889. Few predictions have come true (although  EM Forster's The Machine Stops is scarily accurate), but have you ever wondered what the present would be like if we had all the unlikely gadgets depicted in SF...

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Morning Coffee – 11 April 2016

Here are eight stories to read this morning. Basic Tips for Writing an Email Query That Actually Gets Read, All the Way Through. (WritersUnboxed) Chatbots as Narrative Platform (Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling) The fall and rise of subscription libraries (BBC News) The Legality of Selling...

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Tapas Wants to Gamify the eBook Market, But Will Consumers Go Along?

Publishers Weekly brings our attention to Tapas Media, an ebook startup which wants to gamify ebook retailing by selling in-app credits which can then be used to buy segments of an ebook. The company’s newest product is Tapas, a mobile app and marketplace that takes the company’s model of providing...

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PRH’s Strata Tries to Reinvent the Book – With a Fancy Table of Contents

When print book designers Visual Editions announced their new collaboration with Google last year, they said that Editions at Play would "reimagine what the ebook can be from the ground up". I'm still waiting for that to happen. The third title under the Editions at Play imprint/brand is due to be...

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Irony Alert: Youtube Bot Silences Conference on Surveillance Overreach

The US Copyright Office has recently ended the public comment period on the possible revamping of the 18-year-old DMCA, and that's a shame because we've just been handed another example of why one of the proposed changes won't work. Copyright maximalists have argued that the DMCA's...

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Next Kindle to be Called Kindle Oasis, Will be Waterproof

Jeff Bezos promised to share more details about the next Kindle next week, but we don't have to wait that long.  In what looks to be a technical snafu, Amazon's retail site in Japan has leaked the name of the new Kindle. According to a page in the "Kindle accessory store", it's going to be called...

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62% Americans Know Their Library has eBooks

The Pew Research Center released a new report on Thursday which unfortunately places too much emphasis on what what library patrons know, and not on what they do. The organization surveyed of more than 2,700 American adults in October 2015 on their local libraries and how they serve the community....

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You Shouldn’t Read Too Much Into the Legal Threats Over Brave’s Ad-Blocking Browser

Brave put itself on a collision course with web publishers when it announced its ad-filtering web browser in January, so it should come as no surprise that a bevy of media companies have responded to last week's launch with legal threats. No fewer that seventeen web publishers, including the...

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Morning Coffee – 8 April 2016

Here are nine stories to read this morning. 4 Ways Planning Your Audiobook Can Make You a Better Writer (Digital Book World) The 50 Scariest Books of All Time (Flavorwire) Audible, long known only for audiobooks, is branching out into podcasts — and news (Nieman Journalism Lab) EC commits to...

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B&N Outsources Nook Functions to Indian Tech Company

When Barnes & Noble shut down the UK Nook Store as well as the Nook App Store last month, we took it as a sign that B&N was going to kill off the Nook platform quickly. Now it seems B&N is going to let the Nook wither on the vine. B&N announced on Thursday that it had inked a deal...

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Comedian Pranks Subway Riders With Ridiculous Book Covers

The hot dudes reading Instagram account shows that there is always someone checking out book covers on the Subway, and prankster Scott Rogowsky has turned that to his advantage. He's printed a number of eyebrow-raising book covers and taken them on the subway just to see how people would react....

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Amazon’s Cheapest Fire Tablet Now Ships With 16GB Storage (for $20 Extra)

Is the 8GB of storage in Amazon's $50 Fire tablet not enough? Then I have some good news for you. It may have slipped under your radar thanks to the news about the new Kindles, but earlier this week Amazon released a new version of its budget Fire tablet. The new Fire tablet features all the same...

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Goodreads Reaches New Milestone: Fifty Million Reviews

Goodreads secured its position as the world's largest book-focused social network this week. The Amazon subsidiary announced yesterday that users had posted an aggregate 50 million reviews.  "Many of our reviewers have developed their own distinctive style and won an audience that loves their...

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Morning Coffee – 7 April 2016

Here are eleven stories to read this morning. Avast! Piracy and the Self-Publisher (The Book Designer) iBooks tip: Sync e-books between devices via iCloud (TeleRead) In an indie-dominant world, what happens to the high-cost non-fiction? (The Shatzkin Files) Moleskine's Smartpen Digitizes Your...

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New Plugin Adds Text to Speech to Calibre

Calibre is the best free ebook management tool on the market (it's the most capable, and it's also pretty good at stripping DRM). Now that app is about to get better as an ebook reader. A new plugin was released on Sunday which enables Calibre to read your ebooks to you. This Windows-only plugin...

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What Are You Reading On?

This week's news about the new Kindles has sparked discussions both here, on MobileRead Forums, and elsewhere about readers' current ebook gadget. Many of us are looking at our current hardware and asking whether we want to upgrade (or can even afford to do so). Readers have been talking what they...

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Morning Coffee – 6 April 2016

Here are seven stories to read this morning. 'Ambassadors' wanted to promote reading for pleasure in the UK (The Guardian) Can Handwriting Make You Smarter? (The Passive Voice) For only a couple grand, you can have lunch with one of the gatekeepers of New York publishing (MobyLives) News Genius:...

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The Pigeonhole is a Serial Book Club

The Bookseller brings our attention to a new bookclub platform based around serials. It's called The Pigeonhole, and it's currently running a contest. Online publishing platform The Pigeonhole is launching its first "disappearing book" with new Scandi crime thriller Victim Without a Face by Stefan...

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New Kindle to Have Rechargeable Case, New Basic Kindle “Woody” On the Way

Jeff Bezos has promised that we would hear more about the new Kindle next week, but thanks to a new leak we do not have to wait. The WSJ confirmed my report from yesterday that the new Kindle had a battery-powered case, and added that we might not see it any time soon: Also under development is a...

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Medium Introduces ‘Medium for Publishers’ in an Attempt to Attract Content Producers

I admit that I have never understood why some journalists like Medium so much. I’ve imagined that it suits their view of the future of publishing: a world without art directors, production people, or ad professionals. To me, part of the joy of publishing is design, and the engine that makes it all...

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No, Facebook (Still) Won’t be the World’s Largest Bookstore

So DBW decided to beat a dead horse this morning. They published a piece by Jason Illian of Bookshout which revived the old meme that Facebook is the next killer ebook retailer. Don’t underestimate what Facebook is and what it is becoming. Facebook is the world’s best discovery platform, and it...

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Kindle for Android Update v4.22 Adds Flash Cards, Export Option for Your Notes and Highlights

One of the niftier features of the Kindle app for iPad/iPhone is the way you can export your notes in the form of an email. This was the easiest way to download/export your Kindle notes and highlights, hands down, and now the feature has come to the Kindle app for Android (but not the Fire tablet)....

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Morning Coffee – 5 April 2016

Here are eight stories to read this morning. Do You Know Where Your ISBNs Are? (Free Logbook Download) (The Book Designer) Hugh Howey on Self-Publishing, Indie Authors, Amazon and Big Five Publishers (Digital Book World) The Hyper-Local Media Magnate Journalism Can’t Ignore (MediaShift)...

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Libro.fm Offers Indie Booksellers a Viable Option for Selling Audiobooks

Indie booksellers often lack the resources required to sell and support technical products like ebooks and audiobooks. So far the only solution in terms of ebooks are affiliate partnerships (first Google, and then Kobo). Now it seems someone has developed a viable solution so indies can audiobooks...

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Jeff Bezos Says a New Kindle is Coming

My one and only April Fools joke last week involved a new Kindle launching this month, and now it appears my joke may be closer to the target than you might have expected. Jeff Bezos tweeted the following about an hour ago: Heads up readers – all-new, top of the line Kindle almost ready. 8th...

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Amazon’s Holding a Sale on the Kindle, $30 to $50 Off

Amazon is about to make a lot of people regret missing out on the launch of the new Kindle/Fire later this month. The retailer launched a new sales promotion today for the Kindle, one which is only open to Amazon prime members. All three models are included, including the Paperwhite, Voyage, and...

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Teclast X89 Kindow – Dual OS Tablet/eReader

Here's a head-scratcher. Teclast is a well-known Chinese maker of ereaders, tablets, and what have you, and from the looks of their website they are trying to combine the two categories. The Teclast X89 Kindow is an odd looking mid-sized that runs Android 5.1 and Windows 10. It sports a 7.5"...

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Infographic: The 28 Naughtiest Children from Literature

Children's books are often filled with mischief and mayhem, and of course naughty children. The kids in adult literature can be a whole lot naughtier and sometimes even pure evil. The following infographic lists 28 of the naughtiest kids in literature. How many are you familiar with?...

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Morning Coffee – 4 April 2016

Here are ten stories to read this morning. 50,000 People Protest DMCA Abuse, "Crash" Government Server (TorrentFreak) Adventures in Narrated Reality (Medium) Best Of D.C.'s Used And Independent Bookstores (DCist) GSU Prevails (Again) in Key Copyright Case (PW) In San Jose, Poor Find Doors to...

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Seven Ways to Free Up Space on Your Android Device or Fire Tablet

iPad and iPhone owners have a limited number of options for managing the storage on their device (which is why we were all so excited to learn about the movie rental trick) but Android owners do not. Android tablets and smartphones can fill up quickly as you download apps, videos, and other files,...

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The Noteslate Kuro is the Drawing Slate of Your (Pipe)Dreams

With its close resemblance to paper, E-ink could make an ideal drawing slate, but that market continues to be dominated by unique screen tech like the cLCD screens on Kent Displays' Boogie Boards, and by tablets with LCD or OLED screens. But Noteslate is bunking the trend. The Noteslate Kuro is a...

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A Selection of April Fools Jokes (2015)

With pretty much all tech companies posting a joke, there's no shortage of April Fools jokes this year. We even have an excess of good jokes, so this afternoon I took a few minutes and pulled together a list of a few of the better 1 April jokes related to ebooks, digital publishing, and IP (plus...

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This One Weird Trick Could Save Space on Your iDevice

The limited storage on iDevices has forced many owners to develop workarounds (including streaming audiobooks) but now a solution is at hand. A number of Redditors have discovered, and Gizmodo reported, that there's a trick to freeing up storage on your iDevice. But I loaded my beat up iPhone 5...

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Audible Releases New Free Audiobook: “Excerpts from The Encyclopedia Britannica”

Audiobook fans have often said that they would listen to their favorite narrators read anything, including the phonebook, the menu at McDonalds, or even the encyclopedia, and Audible is using the first of April to put that claim to the test. This Amazon subsidiary has just released a free 13-minute...

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Apple at Forty: Can a Walled Garden Thrive in the New Digital Era?

Guest post: Mark Stilton, a business professor at Warwick University, discusses Apple on its fortieth anniversary. The stand-out feature of Apple’s 40-year rise to become the world’s largest public company has been its ability to convert ideas into designs that have redefined consumer products. It...

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Morning Coffee – 1 April 2016

Here are ten stories to read this morning. 14 hour days, marketing and dealing with snobbery: my life as a self-published bestseller (The Guardian) Are You Raising a Reader? (BookRiot) Business Musings: Introductory Remarks (Dealbreakers/Contracts) (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) 'A Child's First Book of...

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Kindle Flame to Ship This Month, Has Liquavista Screen

When Amazon bought the Liquavista in early 2013, I hoped that it meant that we would one day see Liquavista's electrowetting screen tech in the Kindle. Now it's finally happening. Meet the Kindle Flame (at right). An inside source at Amazon shared the above photo with me, and they also told me that...

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