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Find out the latest news from the bookselling industry. You will learn all about the business of audiobooks, ebooks, manga, newspapers, and digital magazines.

Amazon Experienced a 99.4% Increase in Tablet Growth in 2016

Amazon has experienced a tremendous increase in growth with their Fire line…

HarperCollins e-Book Sales Increase by 3%

HarperCollins has just announced that their revenues in the second quarter of…

Newfoundland is now charging 15% sales tax on books

Readers in Newfoundland are going to be paying a lot more for…

Barnes and Noble Nook Losses Continue to Mount

Barnes and Noble has reported that for the final two quarters of…

Viz Media Invests in Manga and Anime Discovery Site Kitsu.Io

There are hundreds of e-book discovery websites but when it comes to…

E Ink Announces New 42 Inch E-Paper Display

E-Ink is getting serious about digital signage and they have just announced…

Scribd Removes Thousands of Digital Comics From Their Ecosystem

Scribd is no longer offering digital comics on their platform and has…

Deutsche Telekom sells the Tolino ecosystem to Kobo

Kobo has officially purchased the Tolino ecosystem and all assets will be…

Audio Realms is out of business

Audio Realms has gone out of business and they have taken their…

US Bookstores Report Lacklustre Sales During the Holiday Season

Bookstores depend on November and December to bolster sales, but this year…

Brein Files Lawsuit Against Individual Selling e-Readers Packed with Illegal e-Books

Brien is one of the largest companies in the world that tracks…

Barnes and Noble Restaurants Suffer a Setback

Barnes and Noble has been heavily promoting their new concept stores that…

Barnes and Noble Nook Sales Decline by 29%

Barnes and Noble has just announced that Nook Sales have declined 29%…

Barnes & Noble Hires Demos Parneros as New COO

Barnes and Noble has just hired Demos Parneros as the company’s new…

E-Ink Q3 2016 Net Profit Declines by 35%

E-Ink has just hosted an investor’s conference and told their shareholders that…

E-Book Sales Decline 20.0% in the first half of 2016

Major publishers in the United States have been experiencing massive declines in…

British Columbia Bookstores Can Now Apply for a Liquor Licence

Bookstores in British Columbia can apply for a liquor licence starting Jan.…

Hachette e-Book Sales Decline by 1.1% in Q3 2016

The Hachette Book Group has just released their 3rd quarter financial results…

Chapters/Indigo Sales Have Increased by 5.4% in Q2 2016

Indigo Books and Music has reported that sales have increased by 5.4%…

Apple News Advertising will be outsourced to NBCUniversal in 2017

Apple is going to outsource all of their Apple News advertisements to…

HarperCollins e-Book Revenue Declines in Q1 2017

HarperCollins has experienced non-stop declines in their e-book revenue for the past…

Simon & Schuster Book Revenue Increases by 11% in Q3 2016

Simon & Schuster has reported that publishing revenues increased 11% to $226…

Amazon Countdown to Black Friday Deals Starts Today

Amazon has just unveiled a Countdown to Black Friday deal center today.…