by Nate Hoffelder | May 2, 2021 | news
Ingram is a publishing services company which will produce, distribute, or sell books for just about everyone in almost every industry or niche, so when they sold off VitalSource last month, it really said something about the future of digital textbooks. Ingram today...
by Nate Hoffelder | Apr 23, 2021 | news
Kindle Unlimited saw the usual annual fluctuation in funding over the past two months. Funding fell in February to $33.5 million from $36 million in January, but then rose again to $35.4 million in March. At the same time, the per-page rate actually rose in February...
by Nate Hoffelder | Apr 18, 2021 | news
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Google announced on Wednesday that they are retiring one of FeedBurner’s features: Starting in July, we are transitioning FeedBurner onto a more stable, modern infrastructure. This will keep the product up and running for...
by Nate Hoffelder | Apr 13, 2021 | news
About 8 years back Amazon started selling ebook serials in the Kindle Store. Dozens of titles were produced in the first few years before that section of the Kindle Store withered away, but now it is back under a new name and with a new purpose. There’s been no...
by Nate Hoffelder | Aug 29, 2017 | news
WordPress is about to go through an epochal change, and no one knows whether it’s going to be a huge flop or a raging success. When Coca-Cola introduced New Coke in April 1985, it thought it a product that everyone would love. Focus groups liked it, randomly...
by Nate Hoffelder | Aug 21, 2017 | news
No one – and I do mean no one – is using Google’s social network, Google+. (Well, Google employees do, but that is a punishment rather than a choice.) One might think Google would simply give up on Google+, but its other divisions have found a use...
