Etzioni on AI: How to read with AI The fundamental question here is not productivity. It is about the impact of AI reading on you as the reader: What happens to your retention, your understanding, your ability to synthesize across sources? Read More
Amazon releases upgraded Kindle and Kindle Kids devices for first time in three years Amazon unveiled enhanced versions of its Kindle and Kindle Kids e-readers on Tuesday, the first time the tech giant has… Read More
Amazon brings Vella to Kindle for Android and Fire tablets, expanding episodic reading platform Amazon has added the Kindle Vella episodic reading platform to the Kindle app for Android devices and Fire tablets, addressing… Read More
‘Five good books for a lousy year’: Bill Gates turns the page on 2020 with his annual holiday list You don’t have to be a genius to get a read on how rough 2020 has been. What kind of… Read More
Amazon names best books of 2020, with ‘timely and powerful’ criminal justice memoir atop list Is there a better time to stay in and catch up on all the reading you meant to get to… Read More
Bill Gates reflects on what he read in 2019 and offers up 5 books for your holiday wish list In the recent Netflix documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain,” books are a constant for the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist. We get… Read More
Bill Gates wrestles with big questions in five books that make up his latest summer reading list It’s a small pile of books that Bill Gates is lifting to show off his 2018 summer reading list. But… Read More
Bill Gates and teen daughter share love for author John Green and pen joint review of his latest book Phoebe Gates, the 15-year-old daughter of Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, has apparently inherited her father’s love of reading. In a… Read More
Bill Gates wants you to curl up by the fireplace with these five amazing books he read in 2017 Bill Gates travels the world to all sorts of exotic places and probably gets to meet with pretty much anyone… Read More
21 awesome books that Satya Nadella, Kevin Johnson and other top tech leaders recommend this autumn Getting a read on attendees and speakers at the GeekWire Summit doesn’t seem like such a difficult task. They’re likely… Read More
Amazon list of 2016’s best-selling books proves ‘the power of Potter is still strong’ The fundamental drive to read is the desire to be transported to some place new — and like Harry Potter… Read More
Amazon launches $3/month ‘Rapids’ reading app for kids, telling stories in the style of chat sessions Since the beginning of smartphones, parents have been trying to get kids to put them down in favor of a… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Libro.fm’s audiobook platform helps independent bookstores compete with Amazon Audiobook platform Libro.fm is Mark Pearson’s small rebellion against Amazon. As CEO of the small publishing company Pear Press and… Read More
Amazon launches Singles Classics, selling historic essays on Kindle for $1 a pop Amazon is rolling out a new service, called Singles Classics, that allows anyone with the Kindle app to purchase famous… Read More
Amazon ranks the most well-read cities in the U.S., and the winner is … Amazon released its annual list of the 20 Most Well-Read Cities Tuesday and named its hometown of Seattle the most… Read More
App of the Week: BookWhiz rewards kids for reading with custom prizes Getting kids to read amidst distractions like TV and the internet can be tough. But a new app from Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More
Pew: More people reading e-books, but print is still most popular People reading with e-books is becoming a more common sight, but print books don’t seem to be going away anytime… Read More
E-book sound effects: Google wants to patent audio ‘trigger points’ for digital reading Are you ready to add another of the human senses to your reading experience? Google has been working on… Read More
Video game vet creates books you can play with, reaches $10K Kickstarter goal in 4 days It all added up for Joe Booth. Having spent 25 years in the video game industry at places like Microsoft,… Read More
Amazon’s Kindle sponsoring National PTA reading program The National PTA announced today that Amazon’s Kindle will be the exclusive sponsor of a new Family Reading Experience program that… Read More
Hey, Seattle: We’re not quite as book smart as 8 years ago Think of Seattle. And whether it’s Amazon.com or Elliott Bay Book Company or the amazing main Seattle library, reading is a… Read More
Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013 I wish I knew how many books Bill Gates has read in his life. The man inspires me to read… Read More
