Friday 8 August 2014

The Digital Reader

The Digital Reader


909 Authors Waste a Hundred Thousand Dollars on Ad Castigating Amazon

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 03:47 PM PDT

Authors United, the new advocacy group which is formed around an open letter written by Doug Preston, will be taking out an advert in the Sunday edition of the NY Times to publish that open letter. (It’s nice to see vanity press coming back in...

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eBook Sales Up at HarperCollins But Down at S&S, Hachette

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins have each released their latest financial report this week, and the news was generally good. Both publishers reported rising revenues, and HarperCollins revealed that ebook revenues were continuing to increase....

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Kindle eBook Deals (8 August 2014) – Ray Guns, Robots, and Romulans, oh my

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:57 AM PDT

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals for today include Slingshot by Matt Dunn, Me and My Big Mouse by Ethan Long, and other titles. Only the SF title looked interesting to me today so instead I found a couple additional SF titles I wanted to buy....

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Amidst Growing Publisher Interest, Scribd Adds Titles from National Geographic, Boosts Catalog to 500,000 Titles

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 06:59 AM PDT

Fresh from adding new ways to browse their catalog, Scribd has revealed this week that they have added new titles to their catalog. In addition to titles from OR Books, Princeton University Press, and Legend Press, Scribd is now offering titles...

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Twitter Kills Auto-Translate Feature, Makes it Harder for You to Read Tweets

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 04:31 AM PDT

Twitter has quietly removed Bing translation from its mobile apps and web platform. The feature had first shown up in May in Tweetdeck, and was added to Twiiter’s iOS and Android apps in June. There’s been no announcement from Twitter to...

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