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TeleRead has been documenting e-books, e-reading and the digital publishing revolution since the 1990s.

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Joined February 2009
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Scribe faces a strong Chinese rival able to turn handwritten notes into searchable text teleread.org/2023/01/06/scri…
Scribe faces a strong Chinese rival able to turn handwritten notes into searchable text

Scribe faces a strong Chinese rival able to turn handwritten notes into searchable text

Could this be one reason why the Kindle Scribe has gone on sale? For $400, Lenovo later this year is to sell a Scribe rival able to record lectures with two built-in mikes and turn handwritten note…

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Sherlock Holmes ‘Case Book,’ Virginia Woolf classic, others added to public domain in U.S. teleread.org/2023/01/05/sher…
Sherlock Holmes ‘Case Book,’ Virginia Woolf classic, others added to public domain in U.S.

Sherlock Holmes ‘Case Book,’ Virginia Woolf classic, others added to public domain in U.S.

“On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1  They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse…

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Kindle’s 10.2” Scribe drops to $295 on sale: Worth it? teleread.org/2023/01/05/kind…
Kindle’s 10.2” Scribe drops to $295 on sale: I got one

Kindle’s 10.2” Scribe drops to $295 on sale: I got one

Eager to try out the Kindle Scribe’s handwritten-note capability, I gambled $419 on the 64GB version with the deluxe pen. Loser! I was up against such nuisances as a 50MB cap on PDF files transferr…

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Wing-nut censors: One more reason we need TWO national digital library systems teleread.org/2022/12/15/wing…
Wing-nut censors: One more reason we need TWO national digital library systems

Wing-nut censors: One more reason we need TWO national digital library systems

The public library news out of League City, Texas, is grim. By 4-3, the city council voted to ban “obscene” books and let a new board decide which ones are right for minors. It’s …

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Vellum 3.4 publishing software is out: $200+ but worth it teleread.org/2022/11/16/vell…
Vellum 3.4 publishing software is out: $200+ but worth it

Vellum 3.4 publishing software is out: $200+ but worth it

I loved Draft2Digital’s ability to create ePub books from Word files, not just distribute them to places ranging from Amazon and B&N to Apple and the Overdrive library service. D2D can gr…

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The national library endowment idea must evolve teleread.org/2022/11/16/the-…
The national library endowment idea must evolve

The national library endowment idea must evolve

Regardless of the Carnegie tradition, should libraries even accept major donations from the wealthy? More than a few librarians hate the very talk of an endowment and of relying on the super rich, …

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'After the Ivory Tower Falls': A Book Review: opednews.com/articles/After-…
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Will Amazon’s new ePub capability help the anti-DRM movement? Your thoughts? teleread.org/2022/05/28/will…
Will Amazon’s new ePub capability help the anti-DRM movement? Thoughts?

Will Amazon’s new ePub capability help the anti-DRM movement? Thoughts?

Skimming news reports, some optimists may think they’ll soon be able to send their existing Kobo, Apple, or Nook books to Kindles since those other brands use ePub. But DRM in many cases will…

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Bring back Teddy and do anti-trust for real, especially in the ebook business teleread.org/2022/05/09/brin…
Bring back Teddy and do anti-trust for real, especially in the ebook business

Bring back Teddy and do anti-trust for real, especially in the ebook business

One of the most fearsome anti-trusters was Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president who jousted with the oil companies. We know who today’s oil companies are. Big Tech in so many cases. And Go…

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Voice Dream Reader for macOS: A quick first look teleread.org/2022/05/03/voic…

Voice Dream Reader for macOS: A quick first look

I have long been a gungho fan of Voice Dream Reader, a text to speech reader that can nicely display text as you’re listening. I’ve enjoyed the ease of use, above-average accuracy of vo…

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Are war novels too scary for kids? teleread.org/2022/04/30/are-…
Are war novels too scary for kids?

Are war novels too scary for kids?

Are war novels too scary for kids? My answer is: “Lots of ‘It depends.’” The biggest question would be, “How old is the child emotionally?” Some 14-year-olds can handle a bloody war novel that may …

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Great novels tell uncomfortable truths teleread.org/2021/11/19/grea…
Great novels tell uncomfortable truths

Great novels tell uncomfortable truths

Editor’s note: This commentary originally appeared in the blog Better Living through Beowulf, written by the ever-wise Robin Bates, a retired English professor. I love his headline. Of course…

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Don’t stick a fork in books yet teleread.org/2021/08/24/dont…
Don’t stick a fork in books yet

Don’t stick a fork in books yet

I just came across an excellent write-up called How to Fork a Book: The Radical Transformation of Publishing. “Forking” is a term borrowed from open source software, whose license allow…

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The man who judges a book by its cover. Inside the mind of Marko Markovic, a brilliant cover designer. teleread.org/2021/06/26/the-…
The man who judges a book by its cover: Inside the gifted mind of designer Marko Marković

The man who judges a book by its cover: Inside the gifted mind of designer Marko Marković

Marko Marković is the magician of a designer who created the striking cover of No Taller than My Gun, my new thriller. I’m not the only Marko fan. Below, reproduced with permission, is an int…

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‘No Taller than My Gun’ thriller: Scary summer read, but the ending’s happy teleread.org/2021/06/25/no-t…

‘No Taller than My Gun’ thriller: Scary summer read, but the ending’s happy

Notice? I haven’t posted as much as usual on TeleRead. I’ve had a distraction—the publication of my new thriller, No Taller than My Gun. The Kindle ebook and the paperback went on…

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Black and Latinx people MORE ‘engaged’ with books than most Americans are: New report teleread.org/2021/02/22/blac…
Black and Hispanic people MORE ‘engaged’ with books than most Americans are: New report from...

Black and Hispanic people MORE ‘engaged’ with books than most Americans are: New report from...

Major book publishers have favored well-off whites in hiring and other HR matters. But a major new report from the Panorama Project suggests in effect that publishing could benefit from much more d…

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Big Fail for publishers? Just $92 per household spent on rec reading in 2019—and even that may decline long term teleread.org/2021/02/04/big-…
Big Fail for publishers? Just $92 per household spent on rec reading in 2019—and even that may...

Big Fail for publishers? Just $92 per household spent on rec reading in 2019—and even that may...

Much of the loudest buzz within the book business is of Random House’s plan to swallow Simon & Schuster. S&S among other advantages could enjoy more outlets for its books. But such a …

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Are publishers leaving billions on the table by fixating on well-heeled readers? teleread.org/2021/01/12/are-…
Are publishers leaving billions on the table by fixating on well-heeled readers?

Are publishers leaving billions on the table by fixating on well-heeled readers?

Virus or not, will you still buy books despite little distractions like Donald Trump inspiring his worshippers to storm the Capitol and his foes to draft impeachment papers? If so, you’re not alone…

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Get 1925 lit classics for free: Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Hemingway, Woolf, Kafka, Huxley among authors. Includes links to ebook files. @mediagazer
Get 1925 lit classics for free: Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Hemingway, Woolf, Kafka among authors teleread.org/2021/01/02/get-…
Get 1925 lit classics for free: Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Hemingway, Woolf, Kafka, Huxley among authors

Get 1925 lit classics for free: Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Hemingway, Woolf, Kafka, Huxley among authors

Bill Gates snapped up at least four rare copies of The Great Gatsby, the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, and a Gatsby quote even adorns the ceiling of the library in his $127-million house. Gates sees…

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