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Google Play Books is Now Renting Novels Published by Open Road Media
by Nate Hoffelder
15 Aug 2019 at 1:51pm
A reader just tipped me to a new section in Play Books that contains around 200 ebooks you can rent (Thanks, Tom!). All the ebooks appear to have been republishedContinue reading
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Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Rose in July 2019
by Nate Hoffelder
15 Aug 2019 at 11:55am
Amazon announced on Thursday that the Kindle Unlimited funding pool increased by seven hundred thousand dollars in July 2019, to $25.6 million, from $24.9 million in June. At the sameContinue reading
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Google is Beta-Testing Custom Shelves, Search Features
by Nate Hoffelder
15 Aug 2019 at 10:57am
Do you like trying the newest features before anyone else? I prefer tools that work, but for those who are more adventurous, Google announced a new Beta Features option forContinue reading
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It?s Not Just You: Amazon Prime Had an Outage Wednesday Night
by Nate Hoffelder
14 Aug 2019 at 6:14pm
Amazon is having the most peculiar outage tonight. Some time around 8pm eastern Wednesday night, Amazon mysteriously lost my, and many other people's, Prime memberships. There's been no coverage ofContinue reading
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Tor.com?s Free eBook for August is ?The Necessary Beggar? by Susan Palwick
by Nate Hoffelder
13 Aug 2019 at 7:41am
Tor.com's ebook of the month club is giving away Susan Palwick's The Necessary Beggar this week. Lémabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty, of festivals andContinue reading
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Amazon is Shutting Down Kindle Publishing for Blogs
by Nate Hoffelder
13 Aug 2019 at 6:57am
Amazon sent out an email on Tuesday, informing users that it was shutting down the service that converted blogs' RSS feeds into daily ebooks delivered to your Kindle. Thank youContinue reading
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Google Play Books Ends Discounting in Canada, Australia, and USA ? Now Pays a...
by Nate Hoffelder
11 Aug 2019 at 4:07pm
Remember a couple months back when I reported that Google was insisting that authors sign up for an account with Play Books even though the author's ebooks were distributed throughContinue reading
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Are We Going to Get a New Barnes & Noble Nook This Year?
by Nate Hoffelder
8 Aug 2019 at 7:20am
The hot news in the book world this week is the sale of Barnes & Noble. Elliot Advisors, majority owner of UK bookstore chain Waterstones, has completed its $683 million acquisitionContinue reading
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Morning Coffee ? 7 August 2019
by Nate Hoffelder
6 Aug 2019 at 8:14pm
Here are a few stories to read this Wednesday morning. Tony Morrison has died. These 5 online tools will help you identify 'shopped and fraudulently used images. Here's an argumentContinue reading
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First Brexit, Now This: Jacob Rees-Mogg Wants Staff to Use Two Spaces After a...
by Nate Hoffelder
6 Aug 2019 at 8:13pm
As you may know, there's a fairly common practice that when an official is elected or appointed to a new position, said official sends out a style guide for theirContinue reading
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Activists Made a Font Using Gerrymandered Congressional Districts
by Nate Hoffelder
6 Aug 2019 at 7:04am
Readers and authors are used to thinking of fonts as ways to improve the reading experience, but on occasion activists use them to make a point. A few years backContinue reading
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