Andrew Sullivan added a new payment option for The Dish Monday: Users will now be able to pay by the month. Previously, they were only offered a yearly subscription option. Read more at paidContent »
An update to Evernote for Android includes new photo features, shortcuts and enhanced document search for premium users. Read more »
The San Francisco Chronicle has launched a subscription-only site that puts much of the paper’s content behind a paywall. The site is free to print subscribers, and a digital-only package is $12 a month. Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo has acquired news-reading iOS app Summly, which was created by London teenager Nick D’Aloisio. Summly will no longer exist as a standalone app and will be removed from the iTunes Store today. Read more at paidContent »
Barnes & Noble is running a weeklong promotion: Customers who buy a Nook HD+ tablet (starting at $269) will get a Nook Simple Touch e-reader ($79) for free. Read more at paidContent »
Storytelling website Storybird has added a poetry web app designed to let users quickly create illustrated digital poems. Read more at paidContent »
Simon & Schuster will give authors direct access to information on how their books are being pirated online, the company announced Thursday. Read more at paidContent »
Children’s ebook iPad app Bookboard is adding more content, like the Berenstain Bears and the Boxcar Children, to its streaming model. It also announced subscription pricing. Read more at paidContent »
Google’s new Android and web app, Keep, lets users jot down ideas and make lists. The app will soon be fully integrated with Google Drive. Read more »
When building successful apps, both designers and engineers have to remember that they are on the same team, said Kleiner Perkins’ Michael Abbott at Structure: Data 2013 Wednesday. Read more »
Amazon launched a “Send to Kindle” button that publishers can add to their websites. The Washington Post and Time are among the first to sign up. “Send to Kindle” is Amazon’s answer to read-it-later services like Pocket and Instapaper. Read more at paidContent »
Evernote updated the Evernote Food app with Foursquare and OpenTable integration, recipe sharing and some other new features. Read more »
Airport bookstore chain Hudson Booksellers has launched an online bookstore where it sells both print and ebooks. The site focuses on hand-picked titles and has an “ask a bookseller” feature. Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Publishing is speeding up its royalty payments to authors, the company said in a letter to literary agents Monday. The full letter is printed below. Read more at paidContent »
Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish is tightening its paywall. Users will now be able to access 5 free “read-on” stories every 60 days, down from seven stories every 30 days. Read more at paidContent »
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fan site Pottermore is launching on Sony’s PlayStation Home. Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne said the partnership provides the “most immersive experience possible within that space.” Read more at paidContent »
Sony is ending a price promotion that it had been running in its U.K. store since last July. The promotion sold select ebooks for just 20 pence, and Amazon matched the discounts on Kindle books in the U.K. Read more at paidContent »
For a week, readers can download free copies of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. The giveaway is intended to promote Brown’s upcoming book Inferno. Read more at paidContent »
If Buzzfeed had a business section (and soon it will) this is what it might look like. Read more at paidContent »
Google’s startup division, Niantic Labs, is launching a line of ebooks that tie into its augmented-reality mobile game Ingress. Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Publishing is launching a New York-based literary fiction imprint that will publish novels, short stories and memoir. Read more at paidContent »
Ricky Gervais, creator of British hit “The Office,” is bringing David Brent back to life on his new YouTube channel. Read more at paidContent »
Samsung and self-publishing company Blurb are partnering to let Galaxy S 4 users create and order physical photo albums directly from their phones. Read more »
NowThis News, the video news app from former HuffPo execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau, just launched on Android. Read more at paidContent »
CBS’s new iOS app lets viewers stream episodes of some shows a week after they air. But full episodes from popular shows like “The Mentalist” and “The Big Bang Theory” are missing. Read more at paidContent »
Google Reader is one of the top-three tools I use to do my job — and Twitter and Flipboard aren’t good substitutes. Read more at paidContent »
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Apple CEO Tim Cook must testify in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple for conspiring to fix ebook prices, citing Steve Jobs’ death as a key factor in her decision. Read more at paidContent »
Amazon announced Wednesday that it’s dropping the price of the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD in the United States, and is also rolling out the tablet in Europe and Japan. Read more »
Cosmopolitan and Harlequin are launching a line of ebooks called Cosmo Red Hot Reads this summer. Sylvia Day, who originally self-published the bestselling Bared to You, has signed a seven-figure deal to write the first two Red Hot Reads. Read more at paidContent »
Vimeo will allow creators with Pro memberships to charge for their video content starting Tuesday. Creators keep 90 percent of revenues, after transaction fees. Read more at paidContent »
Politico announced subscriber numbers to its premium product, Politico Pro, on Tuesday: 1,000 organizations now pay for the subscription site, with about 7,000 employees a month reading it. Read more at paidContent »
Career networking site LinkedIn is reportedly buying news aggregation app Pulse. The move comes at a time when LinkedIn is attempting to expand its content offerings. Read more »
Twelve-year-old Ethan Duggan got to miss a couple of days of school to promote his new app, LazyHusband, at SXSW. He learned to code using Codecademy, Google and some mentors from VegasTech. Read more »
In a keynote at SXSW Sunday, NYT columnist David Carr recalled the launch of the paper’s paywall during SXSW two years ago. “The theologists of free,” he said, believe that “you keep things free, and eventually somebody will clack two coconuts together and you’ll get rich.” Read more at paidContent »
“Friend” has a new meaning, “Web site” should be avoided, and some tech concepts still lack words. A panel at SXSW Sunday discussed how language is changing in the digital age. Read more at paidContent »
WordPress is going to curate more content and may focus on longform writing and even native advertising, CEO Matt Mullenweg said in a panel at SXSW Saturday. Read more at paidContent »
In a patent application filed Thursday, Apple outlined the possible creation of a marketplace for used digital goods. Amazon recently won a patent to create such a marketplace. Read more at paidContent »
Barnes & Noble is bringing new movies and TV shows to Nook Video. It’s a good step toward creating a media ecosystem for Nook, but the company is not close to becoming a Netflix, Amazon or iTunes competitor. Read more at paidContent »
Publisher Hyperion, which is a part of the Disney-ABC Television Group, reportedly plans to sell off most of its backlist and focus instead on books that tie in to ABC TV shows. Read more at paidContent »
A year after it was launched as the new version of Android Market, Google Play contains over 5 million ebooks, 18 million songs and 700,000 apps, the company announced Thursday. But it’s still struggling to compete against Amazon and iTunes. Read more at paidContent »
