Smartphone readers, relax: No cancer threat found
Frequent smartphone readers who follow the kind of regular snack-reading habit just outlined by David Rothman may have had concerns about their health.
After all, scare stories about brain cancers from smartphone...
Samsung display sneak preview rolls out your ebook future
A new report in the Korea Herald, brought to light by Slashgear, offers an advance hint of the rollable or foldable display that Samsung is reportedly ready to revolutionize our ebook reading...
Yawn? Rumored Kindle Oasis lacks water-proofing. No text-to-speech or Bluetooth, either?
More rumors have appeared about the new Kindle Oasis, via The Digital Reader and The Verge, and a Reddit thread that translates the Chinese material from the original leak (which is...
Amazon leaks like sieve: More Kindle Oasis details
The Kindle Oasis is probably not waterproof, but it seems it’s definitely not leakproof. The Digital Reader reports that, the day after a Chinese leak provided some new information of dubious...
In e-book antitrust suit, appeals court rules Apple only needs to pay $450 million
Between the blog symposium and my further thoughts on Justice Scalia, I’ve been doing a series of articles lately on the Apple e-book agency pricing antitrust affair, so here’s one more....
GoodEReader’s e-reader poll reveals more about GoodEReader’s readers than average consumers
In an article Michael Kozlowski posted yesterday on GoodEReader, he reports on a poll the site took asking about the next e-reader site readers planned to buy. The poll received 633...
The great e-quality debate: Why can’t publishers proofread e-books better?
I've written about the e-book error problem several times before. So I was delighted to see a post from Good e-Reader offering some insight into how e-books do or do not...
Bookslut shutting down: Why?
So what does this mean for books and Internet sites about them?
Bookslut, an online magazine and blog which draws 195,000-240,000 unique visitors a month, will publish its last issue in May,...
New report suggests strong growth for e-paper, less great for Kindles, e-readers?
A new report from Credence Research, "E-Paper Display Market - Growth, Share, Opportunities & Competitive Analysis, 2015-2022," suggests continuous strong growth in the broad e-paper market, with a 13.6 percent CAGR...
Free public domain images for your e-book—from the New York Public Library
The New York Public Library now offers more than 187,000 free high-resolution images of everything from skyscrapers to old railroad menus.
What treasure trove for self-publishers and others! Benefit from public domain goodies for your research or legal reproduction in your...
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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...
