Oyster Introduces Lumin, a New Light Adjusting Reading Mode – There’s a new feature on Oyster called Lumin™, and here’s how it works (Teleread): When turned on, Oyster’s Lumin™ feature automatically adjusts to the amount of natural sunlight outside, based on your location and time of day. As the sun sets, the feature subtracts ... more >
E-Book Startup Oyster Hires Jeannie Mun As Its First CFO – Jeannie Mun, formerly of MediaMath and Operative, is now CFO of Oyster, which demonstrates the seriousness with which the company is approaching a successful model for the subscription ebook service. That Barry McCarthy, CFO of Netflix, is also going ... more >
Scribe wants to remind you that Harlequin and Scribd are BFFs. This is from the Press Release: Harlequin (www.Harlequin.com), one of the world’s leading publishers of books for women, today announced that it has entered into a one-year agreement with Scribd, the world’s largest digital library and book subscription ... more >
Professional Bull Riders and Harlequin Announce Partnership – Harlequin has announced a major partnership with the Professional Bull Riders (PBR), starting with four books, which will include coupons for PBR events and future Harlequin titles. This partnership seems similar to the NASCAR deal Harlequin struck a number of years ago, giving ... more >
Apple’s numbers prove again that Silicon Valley is run by white and Asian men – Depending on where you have dinner in Napa, you can see this phenomenon play out anecdotally in terms of who has money to eat posh. And it follows the pattern asserted in this Quartz article. ... more >
The news of this leaked two days ago when Amazon posted this and then took it down, but the internet remembers forever. Cached pages showed Kindle’s new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited. Amazon has now launched the service. It is US only for now but there are plans to make ... more >