How expensive is your e-book hobby?
When I taught a unit on e-books to my Grade 3/4 students, one of their first concerns was the expense of E.
Mostly we looked at e-books which were free, but even...
Storm gathers in UK literary circles over non-paying book festivals
Following a very public decision by Philip Pullman to step down as patron of the Oxford Literary Festival because of its refusal to pay fees to participating authors, other British writers...
Amazon Fire tablet sale: 6-, 8-, 8.9- and 10-inch models—but not $50 7 incher
Note: This is not a sponsored post---just a normal post we're using to test the sponsored post notice. - David Rothman.
Amazon’s Fire HD 8 tablet is on sale today for $130,...
On a cell phone every e-book can be ‘dirty’—but here’s how to deal with...
Bed bugs and other pests are only risks for readers of paper books, right? Well, not so fast if you include germs.
Research from some years back shows that cell phones can...
How to set up an e-book library in Dropbox: A step by step guide
My e-book cataloguing story mentioned that I had backed up my entire e-book library in Dropbox. Interested in setting up such a system yourself? Here is how:
1) Download Dropbox onto both...
Visualize your prose with WordsEye – literally
Word-painting takes on a whole new meaning with WordsEye. This new web-based technology - currently still in beta - actually puts your words into pictures. It allows you to "use language...
Duh! Be miserly toward library e-books and people won’t borrow as many: New BISG-ALA...
Are U.S. politicians conspiring together to dumb Americans down to the point where they’ll more easily re-elect them?
I doubt that. If nothing else, keep in mind Donald Trump is not an...
Ouch! No Amazon drone deliveries for me, due to D.C. area security restrictions?
Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service is a long way from reality thanks to regulators, despite all the hoopla such as this video. And now the Patch newspapers say the area...
Amazon: Threat or menace?
On J.A. Konrath’s Blog, Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath have a grand old time defenestrating an event announced for later this month by an organization called New America. The event is...
iBooks Editions: Too little, too late?
Earlier today, I noted the complete absence of e-book-related announcements from the WWDC keynote. On The Digital Reader, Nate Hoffelder called my attention to an iBooks-related announcement elsewhere. iBooks is announcing...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
