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I Love My Kindle Paperwhite
One of the things that has been especially useful during the year of COVID-19 isolation has been my Kindle PaperWhite ereader. I was an early convert to ebooks, and not just because I…
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I Need a Shredder
It’s been just over a month since I started my digital migration. I’m making slow but steady progress on getting rid of paper. I’ve been getting digital statements where possible for several years…
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Harry Potter and the iBooks Author
My co-writer Michael Cohen has an interesting piece over at TidBITS on the just published “Enhanced’ edition of Rowling’s Harry Potter series. They were made with the current version of iBooks Author, and…
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Meet iPhoto for iOS
Today is the official release date for my new ePub ebook from Peachpit. Meet iPhoto for iOS is a quick introduction to using iPhoto on iOS 6.x to organize, caption, crop, rotate, edit,…
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Ebook Pricing vs Print Pricing
It really isn’t that much cheaper to produce an ebook. The binding/printing costs are depending on the book and the binding and the numbers printed somewhere around 1 to 3 bucks a book,…
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Michael Cohen on The Tech Night Owl
April 14, 2012 — Michael E. Cohen talks about the DOJ suit against Apple and five publishers, Amazon, and Apple’s iBooks Author app.
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Warning Added to Library Borrowed Kindle Ebooks
As previously noted, you can borrows ebooks from the library for the Kindle reader or Kindle apps. You can even cleverly extend the due date on a borrowed Kindle ebook. So it’s about…
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iPad for Book Lovers
Peachpit has posted an article by me about my love for books, and the iPad: Lisa L. Spangenberg, coauthor of The iPad 2 Project Book, readily confesses to being nuts about books. Like…
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Stanza Free Reader for iOS Updated
Stanza, the free ereader for iOS was broken, quite badly, by the iOS 5 update. Since Lexicycle was purchased by Amazon, Stanza had remained moribound (the previous update to Stanza for iOS was…
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How to Extend The Due Date of your Kindle Library Book
Via Librarian by Day Bobbi Newman (who tweets as @librarianbyday): It is pretty easy to “extend” the due date of the library ebook you check out to your kindle, just turn your wireless…