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Want to know about the business side of things from booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Chapters/Indigo and Waterstone’s? We have the latest coverage and industry news.

Indigo Books and Music has been hacked

Indigo Books and Music will not allow orders to be placed online…

Audiobook sales spike in the Netherlands

Physical bookstores are popular again in the Netherlands, after losing out to…

Print Sales Declined by 6% in 2022

Hardcover and Paperback book sales did not have a very good year…

Italian charged with stealing more than 1,000 manuscripts

The mystery of over a thousand missing manuscripts has finally been solved,…

Celebrities books coming out in 2023

Love them or hate them, celebrities tend to be an interesting and…

Why are bestsellers getting shorter?

Are novels getting shorter? In recent years, the trend has become even…

Zlibrary’s demise and its consequence – how things stand at the moment

Zlibrary is no more. At least, the law enforcement agencies did their…

Amazon to stop textbook rentals, reorganizes magazine and newspaper subscriptions

Amazon announced it is in the process of winding down their print…

Flipkart to offer Pratilipi e-books on its platform

Flipkart announced it has entered into a partnership with Pratilipi, the largest…

Barnes and Noble is trying to deter holiday thefts

Barnes & Noble is installing cameras and locking away expensive items to…

New e-book download search engine ‘Anna’s Archive’ will lead to shadow libraries like Z-Library

Law enforcement agencies might be working overtime to bring to book Z-Library…

How Google and Amazon helped the FBI to successfully track the Russian owners of Z-Library

Behind-the-scenes information is slowly pouring out as to what really happened as…

Penguin Random House will not buy Simon and Schuster

Penguin Random House wanted to buy another large publishing company, Simon and…

New business model from Swedish start-up Sesamy may do away with subscription services

The subscription model might have been made famous by the Netflix all-you-can-eat…

Amazon layoffs now include the bookselling and review team

Amazon announced a couple of days ago that they are going to…

Alexa and Kindles are unprofitable for Amazon

The Amazon devices division currently employs 10,000 people. These are the staff…

Publishers want to buy BookTok, Creators Resistant

BookTok is a hashtag where passionate readers share all about their favorite…

Costco is no longer selling books in Hawaii and Alaska

Costco has 119 million paid members in the United States and is…

Shopify settles with publishers for textbook and ebook piracy lawsuit

Shopify was sued last year by a number of educational publishers who…

Print book sales declined by 4.8% in the first 9 months of 2022

Print books have slightly declined for the first nine months of 2022.…