Scribd, an online reading subscription service founded in 2007, announced two months ago that they would begin publishing original content, in addition to providing subscription-based access to ebooks, audiobooks, articles, and other… Read more »

Alphabet, a top-dollar media conglomerate that began as, and is now the parent company of, Google, has been fooling around a bit with machine learning. The group’s latest offering, Perspective,… Read more »

Readers, book tech is almost always bad — and with Hooked, the utterly confounding “Twitter for fiction” reading app created for “the Snapchat generation,” the “narrative technology company” Telepathic has backhand sprung… Read more »

In the “philosophy” section of book tech startup Inkitt’s website, the “data-driven agent and publisher” confirms the failure of traditional publishing by citing the essence-of-worn-leather fact that Harry Potter was,… Read more »

Last week, Kurt Wagner at Re/Code reported that Twitter was “considering” an overhaul of a most identifiable feature: the 140 character per tweet limit. Predictably, responses have ranged from over the moon to outraged. But the… Read more »

Ah, the long, sort-of-rich history of product placement in literature! MobyLives readers know all about books designed to sell Weber grills, Sweet ‘N Low, the nation of Malta, and Land Rovers—but what about books… Read more »

“Crooks himself never tweeted. He never retweeted. But he had developed his own, impassioned way of favoriting.” As Alexis Madrigal tells it, the first heard about Koons Crooks, he immediately wondered… Read more »

A one-day coding instruction bootcamp will be held this summer in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada on July 19th. Organizers are calling the event “Be Like Ada,” to encourage girls… Read more »