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It Took COVID Closures to Reveal Just How Much Libraries Do Beyond Lending Books

'We understand that libraries have an essential role to play in these challenging times, especially for our most isolated and vulnerable.'
By Gillian Harvey

Is Amazon’s Kindle Kids Edition a Good Alternative to Social Media ‘Screen Time’?

The modified e-reader will cost $109.99.
By Gabriela Barkho
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Are E-Books Finally Over? The Publishing Industry Unexpectedly Tilts Back to Print

In a world where we do everything online, independent bookstores are on the rise, while ebook sales are on the decline. Does this mean that the verdict is finally in on ebooks? Have we chosen the paperback over the Kindle edition?
By Joshua Fruhlinger
Andy Weir with NASA rocks

Cliff’s Notes for Bestsellers: E-Readers Accelerate the Book Summary Business

By Brady Dale
Internationally celebrated author, playwright and critic, Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o is photographed by a fan using a mobile phone on June 13, 2015 during a book signing to celebrate the golden jubilee of his first book 'Weep Not Child' in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. A 2014 nominee for the Nobel Prize for literature, Ngugi's 50 year literary career, fraught with dangers, has seen him jailed and therafter forced into exile by successive regimes of the time and his latest visit is seen as a real homecoming after he was received at State House by current President Uhuru Kenyatta who's father, Kenya's powerful first President Jomo Kenyatta jailed Ngugi without trial in 1977 over his critical play Ngaahika Ndeeda, (I will Marry When I Want), before being forced into exile after his release during Kenyatta's successor, President Daniel Arap Moi's rule. "This is not the Kenya of yesterday but a Kenya that needs all your talents. It is time for you to come back and help us build the country," Kenyatta is quoted as saying in the local press. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA

In the E-Book Economy, Big Authors Lose Money to Big Publishers Losing Ground

By Brady Dale
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 25: A man reads an ebook in Victoria Tower Gardens on April 25, 2013 in London, England. Following an unseasonably cold start to 2013, higher temperatures are being reported in southern parts of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Amazon and Oyster Books: Comparing How Writers Get Paid

By Brady Dale
SANTA MONICA, CA - SEPTEMBER 6: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveils new Kindle reading devices during a press conference on September 6, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. Devices include the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire HD in 7 and 8.9-inch sizes. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Writers React to Amazon Putting a Price on Attention

By Brady Dale and Eliza M Dumais
Books by color

Product Hunt Will Launch a New Vertical Soon, Probably Books [UPDATE]

By Brady Dale
Oyster

Online Shop Around the Corner: Oyster Launches Ebook Store

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Oyster Launches a Lit Mag For Their Erudite E-Readers

By Jack Smith IV

Why'd Apple Buy Beats and Booklamp? Probably to Build a Massive Subscription Platform

By Jack Smith IV

Oyster Launches on Desktop, Makes Books Look More Like Blog Posts

By Jack Smith IV

Behind The Book Campaign: How to Sell 30,000 Copies in Six Weeks

By Ryan Holiday

Reading Habits Indicate Android Users Are Fun, iPhone Users Are Lifehacking Megalomanics

By Jack Smith IV
This is a picture of a Kindle displaying a digital copy of a paper book of a digital copy of a paper book. (Photo via Jesse England)

Artist Turns Photocopied 1984 Pages Into Ebook in Protest

By Jack Smith IV

Subscription Book Service ‘Oyster’ Comes to Android

By Jack Smith IV
Clueless

Morning Media Mix: From Clueless to Fox News

By Madeline Berg

Freshly Minted: For This Book Subscription Platform, The Publishing World Is Their Oyster

By Jack Smith IV

This Startup Will Digitize Your Towering Piles Of Unread Books

By Jack Smith IV
What would James Joyce do? (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

No Need to Skim with Amazon’s New Short Reads

By Madeline Berg
Part of a photo on 250 Words' Facebook page.

Simon & Schuster’s New Online Venture Is Sure to Be Another Expensive Failure

By Jordyn Taylor
This could be you. (ThoughtCatalog.com)

Want to Write 40,000 Words on <em>Family Guy</em> for a Thought Catalog eBook?

By Drew Grant

Oyster Offers All-You-Can-Read Ebooks For Less Than $10 a Month

By Kelly Faircloth
(Photo: Alison Christiana, via Goodreads)

The Bookworms Are Replicating: Goodreads’ Membership Has Doubled to 20M

By Kelly Faircloth
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