The weekly record of digital reading: retailer policy and royalty changes, device announcements, subscription service adjustments, app updates and titles pulled from stores or lending catalogs. Entries stay short and dated. For authors and readers whose income or library depends on platform decisions.
E-Book News coverage from Inkless Books.
Amazon's Send to Kindle service began accepting EPUB files in 2022, letting any Kindle read the open format — but by converting to Amazon's formats rather than opening them natively.
Why one licensed copy serves one reader at a time, what the four licence models actually buy, and what Rhode Island's 2026 law changes — traced to statute, state library policy and trade reporting.
Why do we abandon books? Guilt, mostly — and e-books quietly dissolve it: samples de-risk buying, sunk costs shrink, and quitting a bad book costs minutes instead of shelf space.
Rereading a series in order without getting lost comes down to setup: one ordered collection, sync switched on, old progress reset, and the right reading order chosen before book one.
Reading banned and challenged books digitally is usually still possible: when a school shelf loses a title, e-book stores and public-domain files generally still have it. What changes, and what doesn't.
Print beats digital for cookbooks, art books, and atlases when the layout is the content: full spreads, true color, and pages that survive a splash of tomato sauce.
Translated fiction is easier to find as e-books because digital stores erase borders: no waiting for local print editions, no import markups, and built-in dictionaries for readers bold enough to try the original.
E-books changed genre reading by deleting friction: instant next-book access, faster publishing cadence, discreet covers, and communities that keep series alive between releases.
A well-made e-book is invisible: clean typography, a linked table of contents, working footnotes, and a conversion that respects the text — and you can judge all of it from the free sample.
The return of the novella is a digital story: e-books finally gave short fiction a price and a shelf, turning a two-evening read into one of the most practical formats in the store.