Mongolia connects to the Asia Super Grid – read the book what it means to nomads

Mongolia is a large, sparsely inhabited central Asian country where nomads still live in a traditional way on vast plains and foothills of mountains. The mineral rich country has large coal mines for its energy needs. Now, Mongolia has joined the Asia Super Grid electricity network in order to produce … Read >

Ebook news digest: recommended books for vacation, nomads’ favourite continent, Tour de France

News on ebooks, writing and reading

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Bill Gates Discusses His Lifelong Love for Books and Reading
Time

Bill Gates is the man who started the personal computing and software revolution in the late 1970s – early 1980s when his company Microsoft managed to make a deal with IBM. He became … Read >

Ebook news digest: choosing an ereader, National Writing Day, vanlife, coworking for writers

News on ebooks, writing and location independent work

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How to buy the best ebook reader
Which?

A comprehensive guide on choosing an ereader for reading ebooks.

I thought writing novels from home was the dream – I didn’t realise how lonely I had become
The Telegraph

Writing is hard work … Read >

Ebook news digest: literary tourism, collaborating authors, waterproof ereader, ebook statistics

News on ebooks, writing, and travel

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Literary Tourism: Travel The World’s Book Towns
Book Riot

Towns with an exceptionally high number of bookstores are sometimes referred to as booktowns. Book Riot has collected the most notable towns from Canada, Norway, South Korea, from around the world into an article – … Read >

Ebook news digest: peer support for writers, how traveling professionals avoid loneliness, free ebooks

News on ebooks, writing, photography, copyright on April 13, 2017

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5 Reasons Fellow Writers Are Essential to Your Writing Life
Writer’s Digest

Peer support, sharing experiences and information can help every writer at some point of a writing life. Writers are not always extroverts who are happy to chat with … Read >

This is why digital nomads, remote workers and everyone who travels must rely on offline tools

Traveling professionals, digital nomads and remote workers rely on their computing devices to get the work done. One key thing workers take for granted in an office – Internet access – is not always available on the road. Once a nomadic worker realizes what it really means to be disconnected … Read >

Ebooks news digest: writer-editor relationship, travel stories from tourist perspective, changing role of agents

Ebook news digest February 4, 2017

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A Storyteller’s Guide to Travel and Photography
(Wandering Educators)

Perhaps it is every professional travel photographer’s dream to be able to publish a book full of beautiful photos from exotic places. Travel photographer and writer David Noyes had another idea: he wanted … Read >

Ebook news digest: the unbreakable rule in writing, YouTube stars as authors, learning about privacy

Ebook news digest September 29, 2016

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The One Unbreakable Rule in Business Writing (Harvard Business Review)

You’ll have to read the article to find the answer, because the reason we wanted to feature this story is that it presents three valuable questions that every nonfiction author must be … Read >

Ebook news digest: two types of digital nomads, low-cost ereader, drone photography for everyone

Ebook news digest August 16, 2016

Mashable: My life as a remote year guinea pig

Stephanie Walden participated in a year-long packaged tour around world. It wasn’t a vacation, but a package for digital nomads who worked the whole time (well, depending on each nomad’s own motivation). They stayed … Read >