About that "emergency library" ...

Posted on 03/30/2020 at 01:50 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Things that seem too good to be true sometimes are just that. NPR had reported on the Internet Archive’s new...

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Tagged As: Libraries, The Digital Reader

Amazon ends royalties on ACX giveaways

Posted on 03/27/2020 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Authors who distributed their audiobooks through ACX used to receive royalties on those giveaways. The Digital Reader reports that this...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Audiobook, The Digital Reader

Ready to turn your author blog into an author website?

Posted on 03/24/2020 at 09:40 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If your author blog also serves as your homepage, you may want to consider Nate Hoffelder’s latest website advice. Namely,...

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Tagged As: Social media and websites, The Book Designer, The Digital Reader

Macmillan puts ebook license restrictions on hold, temporarily

Posted on 03/18/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Macmillan’s much-criticized changes to its ebook licensing policy has been canceled — temporarily. It wasn’t the massive librarian pushback that...

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Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Libraries, Publishing, The Digital Reader

What's the most popular book set in your state?

Posted on 03/08/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Many Americans have some sort of fifty-state challenge that interests them, whether it’s simply visiting them or participating in some...

Tagged As: Book lists, Just for fun, The Digital Reader

What to do if your ebook has been pirated

Posted on 02/18/2020 at 10:09 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You may have taken all the steps you could to prevent your ebook from being pirated … but ne’er-do-wells have...

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Tagged As: Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The business of writing, The Digital Reader

Settlement: Audible Captions is now optional for any author or publisher

Posted on 02/10/2020 at 10:59 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The lawsuit over Audible Captions features has been settled, with Amazon agreeing to give authors and publishers the option to...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Audiobook, Lawsuit, The Digital Reader

The Digital Reader's take on graphic design tools Canva and Book Brush

Posted on 02/06/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

At this point, we’d be surprised to know that any of our newswire readers aren’t familiar with Canva. That said,...

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Tagged As: Design, The Bookseller, The Digital Reader

Barnes & Noble pulls the plug on "Diverse Editions" after backlash

Posted on 02/06/2020 at 08:22 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

That didn’t take long. When The Digital Reader reported on Barnes & Noble’s new Diverse Editions series, which reimagined classics...

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Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, Diversity, The Digital Reader, The Guardian

The Digital Reader: B&N demonstrates how not to celebrate African American History Month

Posted on 02/05/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s African American History Month, and as you might expect, bookstores are finding ways to mark the occasion. The Digital...

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Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, Diversity, The Digital Reader