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You can now enter a tiny url in the Kindle browser to quickly download any title you see on the RetroRead website. (Users already have the ability to access www.retroread.com from their browsers and get a ‘dumbed down for Kindle … Continue reading →

Or so says Sherlock Holmes. For me, it’s a lot murkier … I received an email from Amazon two weeks ago more or less out of the blue telling me they had removed my Sherlock Holmes title in an effort … Continue reading →

Cute little feature: you can now select an option in your RetroRead profile to enable your library to be externally visible (e. g. www.retroread.com/mylibrary/myusername. Here’s a link to mine, careful it’s rather long!

Well this week Google did finally launch their ebook venture. Right now it’s a bit of a yawn although I’m relieved to see that it is not just about the cloud (Amazon’s announcement of web reader is sort of “me … Continue reading →

In line with the new browsability by title, the detail page for any title (follow the link from either the latest listing or browse by title) now includes an excerpt from the first few pages of the book; so if … Continue reading →

… not really that exciting for most folks probably, but every title in the RetroRead library now has a “permalink” url formed from the title and author; and there is now an alphabetical index of titles, so search engines can … Continue reading →

Well, the absolutely wild sale of the BLTC Press Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is down from its 500/month peak, but still puttering along nicely … meanwhile our updated Alice edition is moving along quite nicely, thanks to some nice reviews … Continue reading →

Print and ebooks go together — someday, when I purchase a print book at the bookstore, the clerk will ask “oh, and would you like the ebook with that too? It’s only another 15%.” If I say yes, it will … Continue reading →

Always of interest as Google Books is of course the source of content for RetroRead. Some random observations: I just caught up with the fact that one of the driving forces behind the Google book project, Daniel Clancy, has apparently … Continue reading →