If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can really cash in on no-rush shipping credits right now while Amazon is offering a $3 digital reward credit for most items eligible for Prime shipping. The digital credits can be used toward the purchase of things like Kindle ebooks, Amazon Appstore apps, Amazon music downloads, and Prime […]
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Get Unlimited Access to Scribd 30 Days Free – No Credit Card Required
Scribd is a popular reading platform that charges $9.99 per month for unlimited access to a catalog of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more. It’s like Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited except they have more popular titles from big publishers that don’t participate in KU. Scribd has rolled out a new promotion for the next month where new […]
Reduce Eyestrain When Reading eBooks By Using the 20-20-20 Rule
Have you heard about the 20-20-20 rule? It was created nearly 30 years ago by Jeffrey Anshel, an optometrist, as a way to help minimize eye strain when spending long periods of time in front of computer screens. Since then it has increased in popularity and has been adopted as a rule when staring at […]
Year-End Kindle eBook Deals – $5 eBook Credit Offer
This time of year Amazon always has a number of digital deals and this year is no exception. They’ve been having different Kindle ebooks on sale each day as one of the main Deals of the Day. Today’s deal includes a few dozen popular Kindle ebooks, most of which are priced at $1.99. They also […]
Rakuten Selling Overdrive Library eBook Lending Service to KKR
Earlier this week KKR issued a press release announcing that have agreed to purchase Overdrive from Rakuten. Overdrive is the leading platform for distributing ebooks to public libraries and schools worldwide serving over 43,000 libraries and schools in more than 75 countries. The details of the sale haven’t been disclosed yet, but it certainly raises […]
How Important is Reading Privacy for eBooks?
One thing that sometimes comes up in regards to Kindles and other ebook readers is how some people really dislike the idea of their reading habits being tracked and monitored by the likes of Amazon and other companies. A lot of people don’t question or care if some algorithm is tracking everything they read. In […]
Get 50% off 6 Months of Kindle Unlimited
Amazon has started another Kindle Unlimited gift promotion where you can get access to their library of ebooks, audiobooks, comics and magazines at a significant discount. The new Kindle Unlimited gift deal takes 50% off the regular price of a 6-month subscription, taking the price from $59.94 down to $29.97. The 6-month offer has been […]
Calibre Version 4.0 Released With New eBook Viewer
Calibre, the most popular ebook management program, has just been updated to version 4.0, and it brings about some big changes. Calibre’s built-in ebook viewer has been completely rewritten, and the Calibre Content Server has received some upgrades and now has all the capabilities of the main Calibre interface. Apparently many of the changes with […]