Amazon's crowdsourced publishing venture Kindle Scout goes live
Kindle Scout allows readers to read unpublished novels and vote whether they should be published by Amazon, with publishing deals for successful authors First they dominated the book industry; now...
View ArticleIm hooked on ebook highlighting what we underline is so revealing
Ebook readers reveal the most highlighted passages in Harry Potter, the Bible, Lord of the Rings and many more Its an odd sensation to be reading an ebook and to suddenly notice that thanks to the...
View ArticleHow I fell in love with my Kindle
For years I had not been able to embrace the idea of reading anything other than a physical book which, to me, is one of the loveliest objects in the entire universe. But one day something changed,...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Voyage review: expensive but top quality e-reader
Amazon’s latest e-reader is a top-of-the-range Kindle Voyage with high-resolution screen, new haptic page turns and slim, angular designThe Kindle Voyage is Amazon’s latest e-reader, but instead of...
View ArticleApple's Eddy Cue on ebooks price-fixing war: 'I'd do it again'
iBooks chief fighting US court ruling that the company ‘conspired’ to fix prices in its competition with Amazon is defiant before trial. Tim Cook ‘feels the same’Apple goes before a US federal appeal...
View ArticleWhy Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch might be the best-seller that nobody can...
Most-unfinished book of the year isn’t a title you’d want to win. But even those who didn’t get to the end coughed upThe question most people ask when they find out you read books for a job is, do you...
View ArticleTeens prefer the printed page to ebooks
Newsflash You’d think teenagers would shun traditional print books for e-readers. But the latest survey says that’s not true… what do you think?Read site member Butterfly Rainbow’s How I fell in love...
View ArticleA heart-warming twist in the tale of the books industry
New research shows that the book-buying universe – both digital and printed – is expanding, not contractingThe most fascinating and, in many ways, cheering story of 2014 is almost wholly...
View ArticleLong live the ebook – it’s a champion of the printed word | Philip Jones
With the public promiscuously hopping from one format to another, reports of the e-reader’s death look distinctly prematureWe have barely stumbled into 2015 and already some commentators are calling...
View ArticleFacebook founder’s book club choice sends sales rocketing
Mark Zuckerberg’s selection of The End of Power by Moisés Naím sparks ‘seismic change’ in the book’s fortunes, with 18 months’ sales outstripped in daysHow to be a winner: the books that inspire Mark...
View ArticlePhone fiction spells the end of the professional novelist
Wattpad’s user-generated commercial fiction more than matches traditional publishing and is delivered direct to the smartphone – who needs to pay writers?For a few years in the mid 2000s, I was the...
View ArticleDouglas Adams made me a writer: Neil Gaiman salutes his friend and inspiration
Paying tribute to his genius at the annual Douglas Adams lecture, writer explains how meeting the Hitchhiker’s Guide author at 22 changed his lifeDouglas Adams described the first ebooks “long before...
View ArticleFay Weldon has misread 'non-literary'ebook readers
The novelist has advised writers to publish easier, event-driven versions of their books for impatient digital audiences. Has she lost the plot?I learned something this morning. I have learned that...
View ArticleA Kobo contract’s great … if you’re based in Canada
New customers of the e-reading service will have to abide by different data lawsIn recent columns, I’ve praised Tesco’s Blinkbox Books service for honouring its commitment to customers by transferring...
View ArticleAmazon leak reveals plan to launch Kindle book subscription service
The ‘Netflix for books’ service will provide over 600,000 books and audio books for Kindle subscribersAmazon is due to launch a new book subscription service called Kindle Unlimited, according to a...
View ArticleApocalypse Weird brings authors and fans a shared world of pain
The indie SF publisher Wonderment plans 20 ebook titles exploring a universe of characters enduring world-shattering eventsWriting can be hard – not hard like mining diamonds in Zimbabwe or making...
View ArticleBooks without swearwords? There’s an app for that
A new e-reader allows users to replace offensive words with more palatable alternatives, with settings ranging from ‘clean’ to ‘squeaky clean’Do you like your books as they come, clean, or squeaky...
View ArticleClean Reader is silly, but you can't stop your audience being idiots
Book-lovers who’ve vanquished an app that cleans up literature are right that it’s preposterous. But once a novel is published, the author can’t control how we receive it – and it’s quite fun trying to...
View ArticleHow ebooks made me an adventurous reader – and a published author
When Pippa DaCosta was growing up in rural Devon she was deprived of new reads until the ebook revolution opened up a world of diverse genres and experimental readingHow have ebooks changed your...
View ArticleDigital age poses a new challenge to Iran's relentless book censors
Writers and translators turn to internet to publish their work – and to avoid the anonymous scrutineers who remove words such as ‘kiss’ and ‘wine’It is an unlikely setting for an international book...
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