What might Lytro’s product pivot portend for Nook?
Sometimes you find parallels to the e-book business in the most interesting places. Tonight I ran across an essay by Jason Rosenthal, CEO of Lytro. Lytro came up with the groundbreaking...
Did Amazon ask for agency pricing back?
It takes a big man to admit when he was wrong about something. And it turns out that publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin is such a man. His latest column discusses a...
What ‘connects’ James Burke, the Knowledge Web, and agency pricing?
Sometimes I find intriguing stories in unexpected places.
It began when a friend and co-writer pointed me at the 1978 British TV series Connections by James Burke, which he said had inspired...
NYC conspicuously absent from Amazon’s ‘Well-Read Cities’ list; Indianapolis ranked #18
Amazon has released a list of what it calls the “Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities” in the US. While some could quibble with the propriety of calling a city “well-read” based...
Kindle Sideloading, Part One: How to email files through ‘Send to Kindle’
Given that many Kindle owners only buy e-books directly from Amazon, many may not even be aware they can “sideload” their own content onto the reader or app. But sooner or...
Google trains its AI by making it read wild romance fiction
According to a report in BuzzFeed News, Google is training a new Al to understand human conversation and respond in a suitably human fashion by feeding it a diet of trashy...
Canadian librarians ask Big Five publishers for more reasonable e-book terms
Canadian newswire service CNW is carrying a press release from Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Ebook Pricing. The release links to an open letter (PDF) from the organization, calling on the...
The big plus of Android that no one mentions
I've been struggling a lot lately with my Windows 10 laptop. Admittedly, this beast was upgraded to Windows 10 from an earlier preview version, rather than a fresh clean install. But...
Apple late to AMOLED party? Reports hint iPhone catch-up
A new report from Business Korea, quoting information from local industry analyst UBI Research, has added to the chorus of speculation around Apple's supposed plans for an AMOLED screen on its...
Authors Guild, Authors United stop pretending; admit they just don’t like innovation
In a joint press release, representatives of the Authors Guild and Authors United have finally come out and admitted that they simply dislike innovation in the book industry.
Authors Guild President Roxana...
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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...
