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J.J. Abrams calls out toymakers on lack of Rey Star Wars merchandise for girls
Post the record-breaking success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Walt Disney Company has been attracting fresh plaudits for its commitment to storytelling. But there’s an uglier sequel to that...
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Apple Reality Distortion Field turned up over iPhone AirPods earbud rumors
It seems that the Apple Reality Distortion Field which made the extra few eights of an inch on the iPad Mini a stunning technological breakthrough has been turned on again. This time it’s the rumored...
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Oh, no! 1000s of monkeys can’t create a Shakespearean-quality work and get it...
A Shakespearean-quality work will result if enough monkeys or similar creatures—humans included?—peck away randomly on typewriters. That’s more or less the infinite monkey theorem. Now some reality....
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Want better e-reading software from Amazon? Maybe GM should buy out Jeff...
Tired of pathetic e-reading software from Amazon, especially if you’re past the novice stage? Maybe you should ask General Motors to buy out Jeff Bezo’s e-book side. Let me explain. GM has a market cap...
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How to listen to Amazon books on your Echo or your TV—including some...
Your Echo/Alexa device can read certain Amazon books to you, including now some nonAudible titles. What’s more, you can even hear books via your Fire TV. In a nutshell, you say, “Alexa, read my book,”...
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Kindle Instant Preview reinforces Amazon’s dominance
E-book preview widgets have been around for quite awhile but when was the last time you saw one on a blog or website? I can’t recall the last one I saw but I’ll bet that’s about to change. Amazon...
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50,000-title e-book library opens in Israel to serve English-language readers
Israel is probably the highest-tech country in the Middle East, given all the developments that have come out of there in areas such as encryption. So I was a little surprised to read a news release...
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On husbands, writing careers and the Dragon’s Den test
Amidst the regular stream of news bemoaning the decline in income for writers and other creative people came an interesting round-up from Michael Kozlowski of soundbites from media interviews by female...
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Amazon’s smaller, cheaper Echo Fox could broaden your wired home/audiobook...
Since David Rothman has picked up the audiobook capabilities of the Amazon Echo speaker – and others show you how to play Jeopardy on it – it’s worth noting that Amazon is reportedly planning a...
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I.M. David Bowie: A creative life in books and cyberspace
Commemorating David Bowie (1947-2016) opens so many avenues to explore in his long and rich creative life. After all, here’s an artist in several media who kept on working from 1962 right up until his...
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When, and why, bestselling authors become sock puppeteers, trolls, and...
I may have criticized James Patterson roundly for the effect he had on publishing in his push for bestseller leadership. But I never accused him of posting fake reviews of his work, or engaging in...
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Out of all my e-readers, the Nexus 6 really shines
How did that happen? It seems like I just turned around and I have nine fully-functional e-reader devices in my possession. I’ve looked at some of these before, but they’ve multiplied since then. Left...
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Using Instapaper ‘backward’
Does anyone else use Instapaper “backward” the way I do? As with other portable reformatters, Instapaper has largely been pitched as a way of making articles portable to read on the go. But by and...
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Wizards of the Coast launches ‘Dungeon Masters Guild’ self-publishing market...
Dungeons & Dragons fans, take note: Self-publishing has just come to Forgotten Realms. Wizards of the Coast has just announced the “Dungeon Masters Guild,” an e-publishing site for self-publishing...
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E-manga becomes increasingly popular in Japan
The Japan News has a story looking at the movement of manga toward the digital market. Effectively, Japanese book and magazine sales have been shrinking considerably over the last twenty years, down...
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Brits! Grab your discounted Kindle Fires, Fire TVs Now!
Good news for my fellow sufferers in Blighty: Amazon has discounted the 7-inch Kindle Fire from its regular UK price of £49.99 ($72) to £39.99 ($57.72), with free delivery thrown in. In other UK...
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Are PCs in terminal decline?
Two of the most prominent tech research agencies, International Data Corporation (IDC ) and Gartner Group, have both released their end-2015 evaluations of the state of the PC market. And although the...
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Harlequin chops a novel into chapters to enable ‘binge-reading’
This is a little amusing, or possibly ironic. I don’t know. A few months ago, I mentioned new publisher “Serial Box,” who wanted to try to hook people on reading e-books using some of the same...
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Lenovo announces rebranded Motorola smartphones will be five inches and up
There’s some interesting news about Motorola, makers of the Moto X and Nexus 6 that have been my two most recent smartphone devices. Lenovo, it’s current owner, plans to phase out use of the Motorola...
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TeleRead’s move apparently will happen tomorrow; please hold off on comments now
TeleRead’s move to the new site is now expected to happen tomorrow, Thursday, January 14. We were going to move earlier, perhaps today, but ran into some snags. TeleRead is the Web’s oldest site...
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