Indie bookstores less threatened by e-books than by ‘walkable cities’ pushes?
High rental costs hurt independent bookstores. Instead of focusing on e-books and their impact on brick-and-mortar bookstores, Publishers Weekly cites the ability of chain stores to leverage their higher credit rating in negotiating rent. But...
EPUB e-readers disagree: When non-breaking spaces break standards
Over the last few days, I’ve been involved in an interesting conversation on MobileRead. It started when I posed the question why so many e-readers seem to ignore extra blank lines...
How about a self-driving car with a built-in bookshelf?
Yesterday I mentioned that self-driving cars might eventually provide opportunities for ample distractions, including reading. As it happens, connected car company Harman and automotive design firm Rinspeed have produced a concept...
Amazon cleaning up Kindle e-book scams, says e-publishing guru Phoenix Sullivan
Ebook and e-publishing maven Phoenix Sullivan has posted a new piece on the Kboards detailing Amazon's response to the recent spate of Kindle Store and Kindle Unlimited scams. And on this...
News, mag publishers just ‘feeding on scraps’ from Facebook? Amazon moment?
An interview report in The Guardian with Justin Smith, head of the Bloomberg publishing unit Bloomberg Media, suggests that news and magazine publishers are falling into the same relationship with Facebook as...
Of sex, e-books, and distracted self-driving
Some experts have dirty minds.
That’s the only conclusion I can draw from this piece in the Toronto Sun in which an expert reflects that driverless cars would lead to “a lot...
Desk Set, e-books, and digital vs. analog
How long have the digital and the analog been at war in libraries? Longer than you might expect. This lesson was driven home to me in a fun little movie I...
Library collection weeding and e-books
There’s an amusing article in the New Yorker about the quandary librarians face when it comes to deciding what should remain in their collections. Like a bookstore, a library has only...
Tips for Oasis and other Kindle owners: (1) Unclutter your home screen and (2)...
Own an Oasis and don't want to see Amazon book recommendations cluttering your home screen.
Want just your own e-books there?
And how about another issue---how to read books in the landscape mode,...
Kindle Oasis teardown reveals Freescale chip, Samsung memory, 245 mAh battery
A Mobileread user has popped the back off his Kindle Oasis and revealed what’s inside. Better him than me—I’m certainly not curious or brave enough to risk damaging a $290 device,...