books
Amazon relies on your own laziness
Getting my fix of futurology cheaper than Amazon provides it…
digital disruption
Are ebook sales really in decline?
Some sobering news for ebook enthusiasts [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/business/media/audiobooks-turn-more-readers-into-listeners-as-e-books-slip.html] 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
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One man's passionate rejection of the Kindle
The best argument I’ve seen for not owning a Kindle [http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2015/12/21/unkindle/] > 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 of the
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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 [http://www.amazon.com/kindleunlimited] 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?
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/the-magazine-book-volume-I-1-3693.html] One of the few Kickstarters I’ve backed was the one for a hardback book of the best of The Magazine‘s first year [http://the-magazine.org/book]. Something about a digital-only magazine spawning a hardback just appealed to
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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 [http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2013/10/what-kindle-singles-can-tell-us-about-the-future-of-ebooks.html] : > The greatest aspect of Kindle Singles is, of course, their short length. The first one I read was a Single about media and I
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People love genre ebooks
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/ebook-fanatasy-ibooks.jpg] Talking of eBooks, it appears that some categories of books are booming in digital formats [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/06/digital-publishing-genre-fiction/]: > “Certain categories [of eBooks] have a much larger digital adoption than others,” Dobson
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The cozy glow of format nostalgia
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/book-formats-new-old.jpg] There’s an interesting post on Teleread by Chris Meadows that digs into the reflexive dislike of eReaders [http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/paper-books-vs-e-books-and-the-clash-of-bookstore-cultures/] that many people have: > When people say they like paper books, the
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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 UK eBook tipping point
paidContent UK [http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/06/ebooks-now-outselling-print-on-amazon-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 strategy in place already, right? No? Oh, dear.
curation
For your Kindle or iPad: Content Meant? #1
[](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 an interesting idea from the ([occasionally
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NEXT Berlin 2012 - liveblogs
Ah, I love NEXT. Unlike many tech-based conferences, which are very rooted in the now, they have a remarkable knack of looking about two years into the future, and giving you a sense of what the world might look like then. I’ve been working with them since January, and