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 books dropped by 2.1 percent. E-book sales fell by…
Kindle
A collection of 22 posts
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 books that have been around for some time, the provenance…
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 Voyage Kindle Paperwhite (3rd version) Kindle Paperwhite (2nd version) Kindle…
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 type handling experience: […] the new app finally gives the boot…
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 on my Kindle Fire tablet a few days ago, when…
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…
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…
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…