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...
At rights management conference for digital era, publishing industry is still stuck in the...
Rights are more important than ever in the digital publishing world of today. In that respect, it’s not surprising there would be a conference devoted entirely to managing rights to digital...
Amazon books $3 billion passage to India – but with or without books?
Amazon head Jeff Bezos, during a meeting of the US-India Business Council on the occasion of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US, announced that Amazon was ready to...
Lenovo debuts your flexible e-reading future with concept devices
Samsung has been getting a lot of press lately for its bendable, flexible, rollable smartphone concepts - still largely vaporware. Kudos for Lenovo, then, for demoing devices that actually appear to...
iBooks Editions: Too little, too late?
Earlier today, I noted the complete absence of e-book-related announcements from the WWDC keynote. On The Digital Reader, Nate Hoffelder called my attention to an iBooks-related announcement elsewhere. iBooks is announcing...
Amazon puts Kindles, Fires on sale for Father’s Day
Remember the Mother’s Day sale Amazon ran on tablets and such? Well, it’s doing it again. There are a whole passel of sales on for the impending Father’s Day. Most notably,...
Is it time for me to ditch Calibre?
I have been a long-time fan of the Calibre e-book library software. I use it often to organize and categorize my books. But many of the functions which first drew me...
Litsy social media network focuses entirely on books
If you don’t think there’s enough book-related content in your social media, one solution would be to join a social media network that’s strictly book-related. This is the goal behind new...