Kobo parent Rakuten cuts back European retail operations
Rakuten, parent company of Kobo and Overdrive, is shuttering its European retail site Rakuten.co.uk as of the end of August, according to reports in TechCrunch and Engadget. Formerly known as Play.com,...
Everything old is new again: ‘New Grub Street’ and the self-publishing dichotomy
On BookRiot, Hannah Engler delves 125 years into the past to find an uncannily prescient publishing satire. The book in question is New Grub Street, by George Gissing, which follows a...
Gareth Cuddy: Apple and Google don’t sell more e-books because they’re not interested
Why aren’t Apple and Google selling more e-books? Gareth Cuddy, founder and CEO of digital publishing startup Vearsa, ponders this question on Vearsa’s blog. (We’ve covered Cuddy’s innovation efforts in the...
How to run Android 6 Marshmallow on a Nook HD
Well, here’s a surprise. Through no fault of my own, I managed to get Android 6.01 Marshmallow running on my Nook HD.
The guide I wrote to installing KitKat, then Lollipop, on...
Unlike the Big Five publishers, Disney happily bundles digital media with physical goods
Today I noticed a way in which the Big 5 print publishers are falling behind some companies in the movie industry. Strange as it is to say about a company that’s...
No, Wired, a serial novel is not something you can easily ‘binge’
What is it about the idea of serialized books and “binge” reading that makes so many people unclear on the concept? I already covered this with regard to Harlequin, which announced...
Authors! Protect your world rights, advises OWN IT! creator
The UK Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), responsible for authors' rights and licenses in Britain, shared an interview with Crystal Mahey-Morgan, creator of the digital publishing platform OWN IT! And...
Color Jane Friedman skeptical about print publishing resurgence
Jane Friedman, a self-publishing guru and formerly one of the powers behind Writers Digest, shares some thoughts on the current trend toward print supposedly coming back. Backing up her analysis with charts, Friedman effectively...
Samsung’s folding phone could be opening your e-books by 2017: Bloomberg
Samsung's much-rumored foldable (or bendable, or rollable) smartphone could be slated for a market debut next year, according to a Bloomberg report. Quoting the customary "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg...
Wired summarizes DMCA controversies over anti-circumvention, notice and takedown
If you’re fairly new to the copyright reform scene and are wondering what the deal is with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Wired has a great explainer that discusses both major...
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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...
