1. Women Better Represented in Victorian Novels than Modern, Finds Study (Allison Flood / Guardian)
2. McGraw-Hill Education Launches Textbook and E-Book Rental Program (Rhea Kelly / Campus Technology)
3. The Big Five Publishers and the Nutri-Matic Drink Dispenser (Chris Meadows / Teleread)
4. When Good Links Go Bad: Link Rot in E-Books (Laura Brady / Epub Secrets)
5. Kindle Scout: A Guide for Authors (Chloe / Written Word Media)
6. Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Amazon? (Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security)
7. Scammers Are Using Createspace to Spam Amazon With Pirated Textbooks (Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. Business Musings: Confidential Business Information (Krisitne Katheryn Rusch)
2. The Single Biggest Secret to Pantsing: Trusting Your Own Writing Process (Lauren Sapala / Medium)
3. 12 Traits Bad Writers and Toddlers Have in Common (Megan Sharma / The Write Life)
4. Hugh Howey: Self-Publishing is the Future — and Great for Writers (Hugh Howey / Salon.com)
5. The Entirely Unnecessary Demise of Barnes & Noble (Brain Fuzzies)
6. Survey: 80% of Authors Who Advertised on Facebook Said It Failed (Writing for a Living)
7. Nate’s Big List of Free & Paid Book Promotion Websites (Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. Scribd’s Quest To Be “The Netflix Of Reading” Is Finally Paying Off (Sean Captain / Fast Company)
2. EU’s New Anti-Geoblocking Law Doesn’t Apply to Online Games, E-Books, and More Fun Stuff (Jennifer Baker / TNW)
3. On The Internet, Everyone Is A Creator (Mike Masnick / Techdirt)
4. Why the CRTC Should Reject FairPlay’s Dangerous Website-Blocking Plan (Michael Geist /Globe and Mail)
5. Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names (Ernesto van der Sar / TorrentFreak)
6. Does Kindle Scout Suck? (Steven Vernon / Yours in Storytelling)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. Business Musings: The Indie Publishing Lesson (2017 in Review) (Kristine Kathryn Rusch / Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
2. The iPad Lost Years for Apple’s Media Partners (Shira Ovide / Bloomberg)
3. 5 Signs That Agency is a Pimped-Out Content Mill (Carol Tice / Make a Living Writing)
4. Kindle Previewer 3.0 Fail (Kevin Callahan / EpubSecrets)
5. Browsery Social Reading App by Barnes & Noble Now in Beta (Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. Army of Clones: Author Solutions Spawns a Legion of Copycats (Victoria Strauss / Writer Beware)
2. I Copied the Routines of Famous Writers and It Sucked (Nick Greene / Vice)
3. A Changing Book Business: It All Seems to be Flowing Downhill to Amazon (Mike Shatzkin / The Shatzkin Files)
4. The Eight Teams at Rakuten Kobo Who Look Through Your EPUBs (Ben Dugas / Booknet Canada)
5. Canada’s Wattpad Announces $51 Million in Funding (Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. Internationalization is Fascinating: the E-Book Case (Jiminy Panoz / Medium)
2. No, Machines Can’t Read Better than Humans (James Vincent / The Verge)
3. How To Brief A Cover Designer (David Gaughran / Kobo Writing Life)
4. Is Japan’s Rakuten the Second Biggest Player in the Western E-Book and Audiobook Markets? (Mark Williams / TNPS)
5. Seven Awful DRM Moments from the Year (and Two Bright Spots!): 2017 in Review (Cory Doctorow / EFF)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. When Innovating in Publishing, We Must Always Ask Why (Passive Guy / The Passive Voice)
2. Writing a Book: Expectation vs Reality (Charles Higson / College Humor)
3. In the Time You Spend on Social Media Each Year, You Could Read 200 Books (Charles Chu / Quartz)
4. This Bot Unrolls Twitter Threads and Turns Them Into Readable Blog Posts (Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch)
5. Book Promotions International, or How Not to Get Your Book into Library (Victoria Strauss / Writer Beware)
6. The Most Significant Events for Indie Authors in 2017 (Orna Ross / ALLi)
7. Infringement Alert (SFWA / SFWA)
8. The “Kindle for Non-Fiction” Already Exists, But You Might Not Recognize It Because It’s Not a Book (Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. Print Sales Down 43%. E-Books Sales up 60%. Will the 2017 Christmas Book Flood be Good News for Iceland’s Publishers? (Mark Williams / TNPS)
2. The Internet Archive’s OpenLibrary Project Violates Copyright, the Authors Guild Warns (Chris Meadows / Teleread)
3. How The New Facebook Algorithms Affect Authors (Alex Newton / K-lytics)
4. New Year, Old Problem: Innocent Author Rank-Stripped For Third Time (David Gaughran / Let’s Get Digital)
5. The Kindle Changed the Book Business. Can It Change Books? (David Pierce / Wired)
6. Why The Kindle Hasn’t Changed Books, and Other Slightly Ridiculous Questions (Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – December 2017 (Amy Collins / The Book Designer)
2. Google Storyboard Turns Your Videos into Comic Strips (Napier Lopez / The Next Web)
3. What Happens When an Algorithm Helps Write Science Fiction (Stephen Marche / Wired)
4. Easy Blogging for Authors: 10 Tips for a Successful Author Blog (Anne R Allen / Anne R Allen)
5. Out of the Loop (Jacob Brogan / Slate)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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1. ‘Bad Sex In Fiction’ Award Goes To Novelist Who Compared Skin To Stained Bathtub (Camila Domonoske / NPR)
2. BookBub CPM Ads and Wide Distribution (David Gaughran / David Gaughran)
3. The Texas Prison System Has Some Confusing Logic On What Books Inmates Can Read (Mary Papenfuss / Huff Post)
4. The Inside Story of How the Kindle Was Born (Neal Karlinksy / The Amazon Blog)
5. Patreon Changes Fee Structure and Unleashes Chaos (Mike Glyer / File 770)
6. Cengage’s New E-Textbook Subscription Service Seems Reasonable, but the Question Lingers: Who Needs Textbooks Anymore? (Mirela Ronsevic / NSR)
7. How to Give Away an eBook From an Author Website (Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader)

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader. He also builds and repairs websites, and help authors turn website visitors into readers.

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