Amazon tightens its grip on e-mail blast promotions; but why?
Hugh Howey has an interesting perspective on some of the changes Amazon has been making lately. It starts with a great post Nate Hoffelder made over at The Digital Reader: Amazon...
Facebook’s death of the word prediction could be greatly exaggerated
In a widely quoted statement during a conference in London recently, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, advocated the abandonment of the written word for video. "The...
Apple’s curved phone patent: How could it change e-reading?
A new patent granted to Apple, widely reported this week, gives Cupertino's favorite son first dibs on a curved iPhone design that appears to have a completely wraparound curved display. One...
Amazon Books to come to Portland, Oregon
Amazon continues its plans to build a chain of Amazon Books bookstores and Kindle showrooms. Fortune has broken the news that it plans to open a third store in Portland, Oregon,...
Kindle firmware v5.8.1: It’s all about dots and sharing
I don’t know why it is, but for all that my Kindles claim they download and apply updates automatically, neither my old Kindle Touch nor my more recent 6th-generation Kindle Paperwhite...
Are we moving toward a one-OS world?
I've been following the news coming out of WWDC and it had me wondering how long it's going to take until we move toward a one-OS system. By that, I don't...
Print vs. e-books and the generational shift
Every so often, you come across an article where the headline and a quick skim makes you think it’s going to say one thing, but reading in depth reveals it actually...
Is pleasure reading becoming ‘short attention span theater’?
Daniel Berkowitz, senior editor of Digital Book World, has a blog post discussing what he sees as a decline in reader attention spans. Although his evidence is strictly anecdotal, it’s possible...
iOS 10 bids farewell to unwanted apps and older hardware
Here are a couple more changes that were announced to the new version of iOS at WWDC. First of all, it will finally permit uninstalling most built-in default apps if you...
Web content publishers seek ways to circumvent ad-blockers
The Wall Street Journal has a report on companies like Admiral, PageFair, and so on who are working on technologies to circumvent customer-run ad blockers in order to show ads to...