What to do if Twitter targets your account

Posted on 08/10/2020 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nate Hoffelder received some unwelcome news recently: Twitter decided that he’d violated the platform’s terms of service. We hope you...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader

David Gaughran debunks the Amazon A9 Algorithm myth

Posted on 07/29/2020 at 01:09 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

How many times have you seen a reference to Amazon’s A9 Algorithm? And how many of those references seemed to...

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Tagged As: Amazon, David Gaughran, Technology

The Digital Reader's action plan for rebuilding a website

Posted on 07/13/2020 at 01:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Authors and other users who’d built their websites with Virb received a nasty surprise recently. Godaddy pulled the plug on...

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Tagged As: Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader

Louise Harnby's 10 easy ways to clean up your writing

Posted on 06/03/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We and professional editor Louise Harnby would never suggest that technology is just as good as a human proofreader. However,...

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Tagged As: Editing, Louise Harnby, Technology

Publishing experts share their favorite tools for indie writers

Posted on 05/29/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

In our post yesterday about getting started as an indie author, we mentioned that many free tools exist to help...

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Publishing, Technology

When tech and books collide

Posted on 02/21/2020 at 01:47 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Don’t worry if you’re firmly anti-technology — half of this post is how tech is powering books, instead of the...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Classic literature, Podcast, Pop culture, Technology

Need a free graphic-design suite? David Gaughran has you covered

Posted on 01/17/2020 at 10:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

David Gaughran has a roundup of his favorite free graphic-design tools for authors, but if you already use and love...

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Tagged As: Cover design, David Gaughran, Design, Technology

Why this bookworm prefers to read on her phone

Posted on 11/26/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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The headline of a recent piece from The Cut intrigued us: “Sadly, I like reading books on my phone now.”...

Tagged As: Reading, Technology

Algorithm identifies co-authored portions of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII"

Posted on 11/25/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Machine learning has confirmed a 19th-century literary analyst’s theory about the authorship of the play Henry VIII. Back in 1850,...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, History, Technology

Author discusses the English book market in India and writer-centric software

Posted on 11/15/2019 at 11:14 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Joanna Penn’s interview with author Vikram Chandra covers quite a bit of new ground. After years of hard work (familiar...

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Literature in translation, Technology