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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.

Book.ish Suspends eBook Sales

Book.ish has announced it is putting the kibosh on ebook sales and…

Barnes and Noble Partners with Fortumo for In-App Purchases

Barnes and Noble has announced by April 2013 that the company will…

Scott Liu Steps Down as CEO of e-Ink

We all know and love e-ink, due to the screen technology being…

Google Has Ceased Publication of Frommer’s Guidebooks

In August 2012, Google had purchased all of the assets from John…

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Launch Books for Young Readers

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is intending on scrapping the individual divisions for Houghton…

Worldreader Expands Ghana Footprint with a $300,000 Grant from USAID, World Vision, and AusAID

Worldreader has been one of the biggest success stories for non-profit companies…

The Txtr Beagle Now Available at Shop e-Readers

The Txtr Beagle is the low-cost e-Reader that gained a ton of…

Over 1 Billion eTextbooks Downloaded from iTunes U

iTunes U was launched as a dedicated app last year with the…

Barnes and Noble Experiences a 26% Decrease in Nook Profit

Barnes and Noble officially announced its third quarter earnings today that basically…

Penguin Announces eBooks Account for 17% of Global Revenue

Pearson issued an unaudited report that sums up its entire 2012 fiscal…

MYO – The Next Generation of Gesture Control

Thalmic Labs, based in Kitchener, Ontario has developed a new hardware wristband…

Founder of Barnes and Noble Files SEC Paperwork to Buy ALL Assets

Earlier today we broke the news that Barnes and Noble was thinking…

Kobo Writing Life Introduces Pre-Orders

Last year Kobo unveiled Writing Life, which is its seminal indie self-publishing…

Pearson Launches New Incubator Program for Startup Companies

Pearson is launching a new incubator program called Catalyst. This is a…

PPA Releases First Ever Circulation Chart for UK Magazines

The Professional Publishers Association in the United Kingdom recently released their first…

eBook Television Commercial Increases Circulation for One Library

Libraries tend to rely on word of mouth advertising to promote their…

Why the Penguin Merger with Random House Will Kill Overdrive

Most libraries in North American tend to do business with Overdrive to…

PressReader Offers Digital Newspapers on Flydubai Flights

NewspaperDirect has just inked a deal with DTI Solutions to offer digital…

The BBC Petitions the W3C to Implement DRM for HTML5

The British Broadcasting Corporation has petitioned the W3C to implement DRM on…

Analyst Reports Amazon Made $565 million via Kindle Sales in 2012

Amazon is notorious for not sharing financial data on its ebook and…

US Courts Approve Random House and Penguin Merger

The proposed merger between Bertelsmann and Pearson’s publishing divisions have just received…

Barnes and Noble Confirms Nook Sales Will Decrease in 2013

Barnes and Noble released a statement today that confirmed what many industry…

Worldwide eBook Sales Valued at $859 Million in 2012

Worldwide ebook sales are drastically climbing and the big five publishing companies…