What causes the ‘smell of books’?
A few days ago I mentioned the “smell of books” in the context of scents that various perfume and other scented-product manufacturers are trying to produce. The aroma is caused by...
Freetime update deregisters Fires, loses user data
A number of Fire owners have found their tablets spontaneously factory resetting themselves. We first covered this issue in April, when some owners of Fire HD devices found their tablets spontaneously...
A Look Back at BEA: BookBub, innovations in children’s books, The Onion’s bold bet...
When Katie Donelan four years ago became BookBub's third employee and the first one who was not a co-founder, the bargain e-books email list reached fewer than 100,000 members. At BookExpo America...
The new Bluetooth 5 standard: Any changes for e-reading?
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has just issued the Bluetooth 5 standard. According to the press release, this "will include significantly increased range, speed, and broadcast messaging capacity. Extending range will...
Amazon fraud-fighting efforts sweep up innocent ‘prawny’ authors in their net
As I’ve mentioned before, Amazon is a victim of rampant click-fraud attempts, as scammers out there think they’ve found some new way of banging on the Amazon piñata until some money...
Vonnegut Library in Indianapolis launches Kickstarter to help fund facilities move
Here’s a quick update on a story I did in April about the Indianapolis Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library raising funds to move to new facilities. The Vonnegut Library has launched a...
Supreme Court tells lower court to reconsider denying Kirtsaeng legal fees
The Supreme Court has produced an interesting post-script to the landmark Kirtsaeng v. Wiley case, in which it had previously ruled permitted importation and resale of less-expensive textbooks from other parts...
Do you want to learn to speed read?
The Boing Boing store has a special going on right now for something called 'The Essential Speed-Reading Bundle.' The bundle has subscriptions to some video bundles which help you learn to...
The Internet of Things could put e-books on bigger screens
On Recode, tech analyst Tim Bajarin discusses a vision he had in 1989 for a “computing brick.” Tired of lugging around heavy laptops, he imagined a component containing a CPU and...
EU Advocate General: Library e-book lending is the same as physical book lending
Ars Technica UK has an interesting report on an opinion (PDF) issued by Maciej Szpunar, advocate general to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), declaring that e-books should...