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Amazon’s e-book return policy comes under criticism from authors : NPR
By Deanna Schwartz Twitter, June 27, 20225:00 AM ET Earlier this month, Lisa Kessler, a paranormal romance author, logged into Kindle Direct Publishing to check her earnings from the previous month. On her publishing dashboard, she saw something she had never seen before in her 11 years as an author: a negative earnings balance. The…
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In a Mother’s Library, Bound in Spirit and in Print – NYTimes.com
In late March, a few days after my mother died from cancer, I sat in a cold living room in the north of England with my two sisters as a lawyer read my mother’s last will and testament. We were told that her modest estate would be divided evenly among her three children, with one…
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Amazon’s Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books | TechCrunch
If you’ve been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting, Amazon has a new option for you: Kindle Convert, a program for Windows that turns print books into digital versions fully compatible with Amazon’s Kindle software, including adjustable font, Whispersync for making…
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Amazon Kindle Voyage review: The best e-reader is also the priciest
“When Amazon introduced an updated version of its flagship Kindle Paperwhite last year, it took the easy way out — after all, tweaked internals, improved software and slightly better lighting do not a thrilling e-reader make. The 2013 Paperwhite wasn’t bad by any stretch, just a bit boring. Now, a year later, Amazon has put…
