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Are ebook sales really in decline?

Some sobering news for ebook enthusiasts in the New York Times: Sales of adult books fell by 10.3 percent in the first three months of 2016, and children’s

One man's passionate rejection of the Kindle

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One man's passionate rejection of the Kindle

The best argument I’ve seen for not owning a Kindle Books don’t just contain stories. Each individual book is also a story. Particularly when you’re dealing with

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Amazon's Bookerly font arrives on E Ink Kindles

As of this morning, Amazon’s new Kindle typeface Bookerly has made it to the E Ink Kindles – well, the most recent ones, anyway: The current supported list is: Kindle

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Amazon brings its Bookerly font to iOS - E Ink next?

A couple of days ago, Amazon updated its Kindle iOS app to bring Bookerly – the font that came to the Fire tablets a few months ago – and a much improved

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Bookerly: Amazon's new Kindle font

One of my sorta-but-not-really New Year’s Resolutions is to read books a little more. Not paper books necessarily, but book-length pieces of work. And I was doing just that

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Kindle Unlimited: the Spotify or Netflix of books

Well, it was rumoured earlier in the week, and now it’s official: Amazon has announced Kindle Unlimited in the US. What do you get? Unlimited access to a library of books for $9.99 a month. Amazon.com today introduced Kindle Unlimited—a

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Why is ebook publishing so badly supported?

One of the few Kickstarters I’ve backed was the one for a hardback book of the best of The Magazine‘s first year. Something about a digital-only magazine spawning a hardback just appealed to me. As you can see from the photo above,

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Why the book might be getting shorter

Interesting analysis of how Kindle Singles, and other short ebooks might be the future: The greatest aspect of Kindle Singles is, of course, their short length. The first one I read was a Single about media and I remember thinking how a typical business

Matter: is its long-form science journalism worth reading?

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Matter: is its long-form science journalism worth reading?

How is Kickstarted long-form science journalism startup Medium performing? Pretty well, so far…

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The Two Tier Tablet Market

In the shadow of a hurricane, Google launched some new tablets, a phone and a revamp of the latest version of Android. Pondering this, I’ve come to the comclusion that we’ve actually got two tiers of tablets: the Google/Amazon content tablet

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The Zeitgeist Project: The Curators Objectify

![The Zeitgeist Project Berlin audience](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/08/the-audience-zeitgeist.jpg?resize=640%2C371)To conclude [The Zeitgeist Project Berlin](http://thezeitgeistproject.com), the eight curators who [talked previously](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/08/the_

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The UK eBook tipping point

paidContent UK: About two years after Kindle launched in the United Kingdom, Amazon UK says it is now selling 114 ebooks for every print book. You’ve got an eBook

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For your Kindle or iPad: Content Meant? #1

[![Content Meant? #1 on Kindle](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/content-meant-kindle-thumb-520x388-2527.jpg?resize=520%2C388)](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/content-meant-kindle.jpg)Have you come across [ReadLists](http://readlists.com/)? They’re

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#ftmedia12 - The eBook (r)evolution

Matteo Berlucchi, Chief Executive Officer, aNobii Santiago de la Mora, Director, Print Content Partnerships EMEA, Google Tim Hely Hutchinson, Group Chief Executive, Hachette UK Michael Serbinis, Chief Executive Officer, Kobo Moderated by Richard Waters Michael Serbinis – They’ve been in business 26 months, and

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eBooks: the purest literary experience

Here’s a stirring defence of the eBook against the “paper purity” brigade: The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the material object we hold in our hand and by discouraging anything but our focus on where we are