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There will never be another Harry Potter Book

J.K. Rowling has written 8 Harry Potter Books, including the new Harry…

Penguin Random House Refuses to Divulge e-Book Sales

This week the vast majority of major publishers have released financial figures…

Hachette e-Book Sales Continue to Fall

Hachette has just announced their financial figures for the first six months…

Amazon Flex Drivers Will Deliver a Secret Release on July 31

Amazon has just sent an email to their Flex Drivers that let…

Indigo is Planning to Renovate Nearly Every Bookstore

Chapters Indigo are planning on renovating almost every single bookstore in Canada within…

Canadian and US Bookstore Trends for 2017

The year is half over and we now have a sense on…

Here are all of the Audible Channels and Content Producers

Audible Channels is a new platform that launched earlier this month and…

Softbank Acquires ARM and the Semi-Conductor Consolidation is Complete

Japanese based Softbank has just acquired United Kingdom’s ARM for £24.3 billion,…

Amazon to Battle Barnes and Noble in Manhattan

Barnes and Noble has their corporate headquarters in Manhattan and they have…

Dell will no longer manufacture Android Tablets

Dell has confirmed that they are no longer going to manufacture and…

Digital Magazine Subscriptions Increase by 6% in 2015

In 2015, the average number of digital subscription sales rose 6% to…

1 in 5 books sold in Canada is an eBook

The CEO of Kobo, Michael Tamblyn, spoke at the The Economist’s Canada Summit and…

This bookstore does not stock a single book

There is a large demographic of people who buy e-books or print…

Chapters Indigo Reports Bookstore Sales Increased 12.5% in 2015

Chapters Indigo has just reported that in 2015 sales grew by 12.5%…

Amazon no longer price matches within 7 days

Without any fanfare Amazon quietly edited price protection policy on all products…

E Ink Reports a $8.34 million loss in Q1 2016

E Ink, the company responsible for the e-paper displays found on the…

B&N commits to selling Samsung Tablets for three more years

Barnes and Noble has been selling Samsung branded tablets with Nook software…

Jeff Bezos says If you are not a Prime Member you are irresponsible

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told shareholders today that he wants to add…

Oracle Gave Amazon a 97.5% Discount to use Java

Oracle has accused Google of stealing their copyrighted software to enter the…