Something new has been added to the site.  In the right-hand column you will see one or more boxes labeled "Amazon.com".  They will be showing various ereader-related products.  If you click through to Amazon from the boxes and order something, TeleRead will get a small percentage of the price.  Your purchase price will not increase. Even if you don't buy the stuff shown in the box, anything you buy from Amazon after clicking through will help the TeleRead out with a percentage.  So if you have any shopping to do with Amazon, from telescopes to computers to clothing to dog food,...

For any of you commenting for the first time, in order to avoid spam the comments from first-time commenters are automatically held for my approval.  After the comment is approved then all your subsequent comments will go up immediately. I check comments several times a day, but there may be a delay in getting your comment up if I am out and about.  Rest assured it will appear. Also sometimes our spam filter will catch your comment and I will have to approve it.  No telling why the filter does this, but it will occasionally catch even long-time commenters.  Just something we...

In response to your feedback, we have re-implemented the commenting system we used on TeleRead prior to the change we made in late June. All comments previously posted using the new tool still exist on TeleRead posts, but now readers will post comments using the tool they were accustomed to when TeleRead relaunched earlier this year. Readers will still be able to react to posts and to share TeleRead content to their social media fans and followers using the share...

Picked this up from a tweet by Richard Nash.  Twocation is a service that will locate your followers geographically.  Here is a breakdown of those places that represent 1% or over of followers of @paulkbiba (despite the name this account is only used for TeleRead, not for any personal stuff of mine): France 2.2% India 2.2% New Zealand 1.1% Spain 1.3% United States 50% South Africa 1.3% Netherlands 1.6% Jersey 1.1% Italy 2.7% Canada 6.5% Australia 3% Brazil 1.6% United Kingdom 12.4% We also have followers in 33 other countries, each of which accounts for less than 1%...

I have received a number of reports from readers about supposed malware on the site.  I sent them to our IT people and received the following reply: This was not malware, but a coincidence error message that we found and fixed.  I had our hosting provider run a malware and virus protection scan on the site, and it came back clean. Thanks to all who cared enough to let us know....

I know how TeleRead's readers feel about privacy so I've asked our owners, North American Publishing Company (NAPCO), to provide a detailed explanation of how our new commenting system will work.  One important take-away is that you can still participate in comments but bypass the new system if you post your comment as a Guest.  Here's what they say: You likely have noticed a new share toolbar, social sign-on functionality and commenting system we are testing. It is done through a company called Gigya, which powers many websites such as Reuters, USA Today and CBS.com. We have implemented the new website social...

Good news!  We are in the process of implementing a full set of forums for TeleRead and, if the programming gods allow, are targeting to have them up and running this month. In that regard, I'd like your comments on what topics you'd like to see.  We're currently planning to have all the categories we currently have on TeleRead (they appear towards the top of very page), plus some others.  Our current thinking is: Around the World Copyright Libraries Publishing Ebooks The Ereaders category will be broken into: Ereaders - general Apple devices Android devices Kindle Kobo Nook Sony Anything else you want to see?  We want to keep it fairly simple at first and can...

Why Penguin and Diane Duane just lost a sale, by Chris Meadows Flip book publisher joins the digital age The annual ebook spring cleaning: what I learned this year, by Joanna Georgia (US) history ebook project, by Gary Price Publishers in danger of losing hearts and minds of readers, by Chris Meadows Widescreen TVs, black bars, and e-books: Why complications can cause consumer conniptions, by Chris Meadows Publisher eStar Books responds to our requests for publisher input Reports on the changing bodies of books, by Matthew Hayler It’s like making sausage: if only ebook pricing were an intuitively obvious task, by Mary Anna Evans Memidex...

If you are making a comment for the first time it will be held for my approval before it appears, in order to prevent spam.  The approval can happen quickly, or it might take as much a half a day if I'm away.  Don't post a duplicate comment, as  your original will appear in good time. After your approval, your next comments will go up right away....

Won't be covering CES this year. All the big announcements in the ebook world have already been made and it's not worth slogging through the unpleasantness of CES unless there is something big to report. Three times is more than enough for me! On the plus side, we'll be covering Digital Book World in New York. Last year it was a really first rate conference and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do this year. It will be held January 24 to 26. On January 27, Publishing Point will be presenting a talk by David Young, the...

Now you tell me that this means. The graph shows Google Analytics data for December 23 to 25 (with the numbers deleted). Note that it gradually goes down as Christmas approaches and is at its lowest point on December 24. Now look at the huge spike on Christmas day. Almost double the numbers of the day before. The only thing I can think of is that a lot of people got ereaders for Christmas and started Googling around to find out more about them. Neat!...

The winner of the Kindle ereader, 3G + Wi-Fi, 6″ Display, Graphite: Dawn Lippard of Taylor, Arizona (details published with her permission) Congrats!!!...