If you’re looking to get a new Kobo ereader or eNote, three of the current models are currently on sale in the US through BlueProton (Kobo’s US partner) on Amazon (oddly they aren’t on sale on Kobo’s website, but...
His own experience assisting his terminally ill wife in ending her life set him on a path to founding the Hemlock Society and writing a best-selling guide.
Amazon and Bloomsbury Publishing have been selling e-books without an agreement for the past couple of months. This situation came to a head last week when it looked like all Harry Potter books would be pulled from Amazon. This made...
Waveshare introduced several dot matrix ESL color e-paper displays, which it claims are ideal for various applications. As Cnx-Software mentioned, those can be IoT, retail, or industrial all thanks to the Bluetooth and NFC connectivity...
Maybe this was something that was waiting to happen. With the rapid influx of AI technologies and competitors such as Audible embracing AI in publishing audiobooks, Storytel has also jumped onto the bandwagon. The company announced it...
Ferrero Group is widely recognized for its famous chocolate brand, Kinder. The company has now announced the launch of a new e-book platform named “Let’s Story”, the website Mumbrella reported. They believe the...
Vanessa Bryant is writing a book highlighting 100-plus murals that honor her husband, Kobe, and daughter, Gianna, who died in a helicopter crash five years ago Sunday.
The first few weeks after Amazon released the Kindle Colorsoft, a bunch of negative reviews were posted on Amazon’s website, with a lot of 1-star reviews because of the frontlight issue and a general lack of quality control. The...
A little-known writer who works in a bookshop, keeps pet snails and makes psychedelic music as Berlin Horse is the surprise winner of this year’s fiction prize. He reveals the story behind his ‘hazy, hypnotic’ folk horror A little while...
This week, Holly Bourne answers our burning questions, what is she reading, what book would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, what left her cold?
Bookshops staged late-night parties – with fancy dress, quizzes and cakes – to launch the third instalment of novelist’s Empyrean series, Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros couldn’t sell her first novel. No publisher would take it. But this week,...
Animal magic, little dinosaurs, dangerous strangers, death-flies and zombies, four lost girls who live wild in the woods and more Our Love by Fátima Ordinola, Post Wave, £12.99 This adorable animal-themed picture book conveys the love...
Nicola Walker narrates the account of the 10 Rillington Place murders in the 50s – and the macabre media whirlwind that followed The Peepshow opens in 1953 with a sex worker being approached by a middle-aged man in spectacles in London....
Clay McLeod Chapman kept hearing friends say, of their Fox News-watching parents, “It’s like they were possessed.” That’s what inspired him to write “Wake Up and Open Your Eyes.”
You will face a strange scenario with the Lenovo M9 tablet and the Nook e-reader application. Many users reported that the Nook Android app is not functional on the Lenovo Android tablet device, and the problem is that this isn’t...
A fascinating insight into a Chinese telecoms giant and its detractors Huawei is not exactly a household name. If you’ve heard of it, you either follow the smartphone market closely – it is the main China-based...
Onyx Boox is announcing the upcoming 4.0 update for the Go 10.3, Go Color 7, Note Air3 C, and Note Air3. The NeoReader, Notes, and e-book library have been significantly upgraded. The company has just issued the Release Candidate...
This month, a 'Thrills & Chills Book Club' social media program from Tandem Collective begins promoting Amazon Publishing titles. The post Thomas & Mercer Engages Tandem Collective Marketing appeared first on Publishing...
Project 24 is in full swing! If you missed it, it’s a year where I only buy 24 books for myself. This must be the fourth time I’ve done Project 24, at least, and it’s always a fun experiment in
Over three years ago, I did a post over a game I was obsessed with called Friday Night Funkin’. It’s a free rhythm game on Newgrounds that’s much like Dance Dance Revolution, except you use your arrow keys to play...
The next Stuff Your Kindle Day is tomorrow, January 23, 2025, and the theme this time is mystery books. It also happens to be one of the most popular genres and no doubt there are many who might have been looking forward to this day....
The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he shares a detailed and personal account of his decades dealing with China.
The novelist is 75. Rusty Sabich, the now-retired prosecutor he introduced in “Presumed Innocent,” is 77 — and taking on a new case in “Presumed Guilty.”
Part of a gifted generation of writers from Northern Ireland, Longley also gave years of service to the province’s arts council Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, whom Seamus Heaney described as “a custodian of griefs and wonders”, has...
The States' book industry revenues were up 7.3 percent at $13.3 billion, January through November in 2024, per AAP's StatShot. The post AAP StatShot November: US Book Industry Was Up 10.3 Percent appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .
Digital book sales in the United States saw a 2.7% gain during November 2024, generating $83.3 million dollars. Year-to-date, e-book revenues were up 2.9% compared to the first eleven months of 2024, which was $945.1 million. Digital...
Belfast poet of exceptional poise and eloquence – but with a sardonic streak to temper his technical accomplishment In 1994, when rumours of an IRA ceasefire began to circulate, Michael Longley sat down and wrote what came to be regarded...
Daniel Pioro/Manchester Camerata/Michael Morpurgo (Platoon) The violinist’s rethinking of Vivaldi’s best known work includes four new poems by (and read by) Michael Morpurgo but, placed together at the start of the disc, the music and...
The 12-title longlist for the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize is to be followed by a six-title shortlist on March 20, a winner on May 15. The post Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize Names Its 2025 Longlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .
An adaptation of “Fatherland,” the best-selling novelist’s first solo work, “sets my teeth on edge,” he admits. His newest book, “Precipice,” is about a former British prime minister in love.
Mick Herron , who’s given us the popular Slough House series, as well as other mystery and thriller novels, has been named as the British Crime Writers’ Association’s Diamond Dagger winner for 2025. A CWA press release explains that this...
Millions of authors will take a variety of paths this year to market and promote their books. Hope is not a strategy. You need to have a thought-out, actionable approach to selling your book. Some will do nothing and pray...