Kobo Steps in at the Eleventh Hour, Will be Taking Over Blinkbox Books Customer Lists – Blnkbox, the UK digital download business, has been in the process of trying to offload both the video and book download services since last year. While the video portion was successfully transferred, it looked ... more >
What will digital life look like in 2025? Highlights from our reports – A compendium of information from a variety of Pew reports on what our lives with technology will look like a decade from now. Some of the areas covered are privacy (not so optimistic on this one), work ... more >
Facebook’s chief product officer apologizes to the LGBTQ community – Facebook CPO Chris Cox penned what appears to be a pretty earnest and humble apology for discriminating against LGBTQ users by flagging their user names as fake. Although Facebook does not require birth names for its users, it does apparently ... more >
Amazon Responds to Discussion of Hachette Contract Dispute – Amazon has broken its silence on the Hachette negotiations, and, as Nate Hoffelder points out, it’s much more generous to Hachette than Hachette has been to Amazon. Also, how is it no one seems to have learned anything since the agency ... more >
Amazon Customers Win Big In Ebook Settlement – So many of you may have noticed refunds from the great ebook settlement, at least from Amazon and Apple. Barnes & Noble, along with smaller online retailers, do not appear to have released their customer rebates yet. However, this is good timing, ... more >
BIC Cristal For Her Ball Pen, 1.0mm, Black, 16ct (MSLP16-Blk) – An oldie but still a goodie. Bic pens “for her,” yields some of the funniest reviews and questions/answers on the site (warning: massive time suck potential). Someone has answered my gentle prayers and FINALLY designed a pen that I ... more >