So what does an e-book cake look like? Anybody want to create one?
If you've ever wondered what a library book cake looks like, you can stop. In fact, here are 24 other book-inspired cakes.
And now a challenge to TeleRead community members. Would anyone...
Witches show at University of Manchester Library brings a sorcerous start to 2016
The John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester is starting off 2016 with what looks like a fascinating and fantastical exhibition. And the exhibition booklet is available for free online...
Can Barnes & Noble imitate Books & Brews?
Remember UK bookshops’ plans for a “Civilised Saturday” to follow Black Friday last year, in which one bookshop owner discussed how they would have a pleasant afternoon “handing out prosecco” as...
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...
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...
Want to read on a Ubuntu tablet? This could be your chance
Efforts to transplant Linux into mobile and tablet formats haven't exactly set the world on fire. Even leading Linux platform Ubuntu hasn't seen much takeup for Ubuntu for tablets or its Ubuntu...
Why make your own e-books?
It was the autumn of 2012, and mom was in college again. It just happened that in history class she'd been required to learn as much as possible about a certain...
The RCA Voyager II tablet is cheap but potentially usable
The nice thing about Android is that it is largely device-agnostic, and the last few revisions of it have been more or less cosmetic. Any version of Android you get from...
Writers: Watch your small press choices
The UK writer and small press community - especially anyone in the dark, weird, fantastic, and horror areas - has been abuzz lately over the implosion of a once well-regarded small...
E-book and Netflix territorial restrictions pit the Internet against real-world economics
Remember the “good old days” when anyone could buy an e-book from anywhere? That was the state of things in the early days of the e-book, before the publishers were paying...
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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...
