Best Of: Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair
Amazon Is Loosening Its DRM Policy for Kindle
Starting January 20, Amazon is loosening its digital rights management (DRM) policy for Kindle, and will allow authors using Kindle Direct Publishing to offer DRM-free books for download in EPUB or PDF format. Previously, the company had made downloading books difficult and earlier this year removed the ability of users to download and transfer titles using USB. The new policy will only impact titles marked as DRM free starting December 9, and not any before that. Most titles in the Kindle store will remain protected by DRM. Some authors are opting to remove the DRM-free status, as they don’t want […]
Imprints: Altneuland Press; Crunchyroll
Berlin-based Hebrew-language publisher Altneuland Press is launching a US publishing program in 2026, in collaboration with New Vessel Press and with Pushkin Press and Steerforth. First titles include In the Belly of the Whale by journalist Ruth Margalit, an original English-language nonfiction collection, co-published with Pushkin Press and Steerforth Press; Our Lady of Kazan, by Maya Arad, co-published with New Vessel Press; and Bandit by Itamar Orlev — an award-winning debut novel, forthcoming in English translation. “Our goal is to build a publishing structure that reflects how literature now circulates — across languages, markets, and borders,” said Moshe Sakal, Altneuland co-founder and […]
People 12/11
Social App Reading Report Shows Personal Recommendations Lead Discovery
Social reading app Fable and digital subscription service Everand released their State of Reading Report, an analysis of reading trends based on a survey of more than 1600 users. More than half of respondents report reading more this year than last. Fable also notes that personal recommendations have risen and are the dominant mode of discovery, over finding their next read on ebook and audiobook platforms. “Sometimes, humans get it better than machines,” Fable says in a release. “Many readers say algorithms and search tools don’t quite get their tastes – what some describe as a ‘discovery crisis.’ They want […]