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Originally Posted by darryl
I gave up on Good EReader long ago partly because the volume of stories did not make up for the fact that it seemed to publish just about anything for the sake of it, often without much regard to accuracy. But when the anti-ebook rants began that was the final straw for me.
Teleread has deteriorated badly. As Barry says, the Kindle fonts issue, though I agree, is done to death. But what has made me stop reading it is the political posts on the US Presidential Election, sometimes with ridiculous attempts to relate it to ebooks. I'm not a US resident or citizen. I do not have a vote. And I would prefer to get my US politics from more professional and less partisan sources. I may go back to it when the Circus is over. Then again, I haven't missed it. I may not.
I too would like to see more posts on the blogs, but would prefer infrequent posts to frivolous and irrelevant ones. We do have interesting times ahead in the next few years at least.
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If you prefer your US politics from less partisan sources, then you are out of luck. I'm not sure there is a non partisan press in the US anymore, unless of course, your definition of non partisan is those whose views I agree with.
I suspect that writing blogs is like most hobbies, people are into it for a while, then slowly move on to other things. Plus, trying to monetize a blog is pretty tough these days. Last, as others have said, there really isn't a lot going on in the ebook world. Amazon has controlled the ebook market place for a number of years and it really doesn't look like anyone is going to challenge them anytime soon. Most changes to ebook readers and tablets are incremental now. If I were to guess, I would say ebook (and music for that matter) discover-ability is the next area of innovation.