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Are ebook sales really in decline? Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital disruption

One man's passionate rejection of the Kindle Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
books

Amazon's Bookerly font arrives on E Ink Kindles Members Public

As of this morning, Amazon’s new Kindle typeface Bookerly [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/bookerly_amazons_new_kindle_font.html] has made it to the E Ink Kindles – well, the most recent ones, anyway: The current supported list is: * Kindle Voyage [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Amazon brings its Bookerly font to iOS - E Ink next? Members Public

A couple of days ago, Amazon updated its Kindle iOS app [http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&node=11516960011&tag=thedigrea-20&linkId=OFHEQ6GU2X4TITAC] to bring Bookerly – the font that came to the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Bookerly: Amazon's new Kindle font Members Public

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 a notice popped up offering me a new font. Well,

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Adam Tinworth
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Kindle Unlimited: the Spotify or Netflix of books Members Public

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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Adam Tinworth
amazon

Why is ebook publishing so badly supported? Members Public

[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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Adam Tinworth
ebooks

Why the book might be getting shorter Members Public

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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Adam Tinworth
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