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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

Indigo Tech to Launch today at Select Chapters Bookstores

Chapters and parent company Indigo plan on unveiling a new program called…

Jeff Bezos Purchases The Washington Post

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has entered into an agreement to purchase The…

Harlequin eBook Sales Account for 24.5% of Total Revenue

Harlequin is seeing strong growth selling digital books with 24.5% of their…

The Sun Launches Innovative Digital Paywall

  The Sun is currently Britain’s largest newspaper and has the highest…

Hachette Abandons Publishing in New Zealand

Hachette has announced it is abandoning publishing new books in New Zealand…

Textbook Publishers Embrace a New Digital Distribution Model

The digital textbook industry garnered 27% of the $12.4 billion spent on…

Is Windows 8 and RT Doomed to Fail Against Android?

Microsoft is trying to push hardware manufacturers to either adopt Windows 8…

Why the Vast Majority of Newspaper Paywalls Will Fail

Some of the largest national newspaper publishers in North America have shifted…

The Russian eBook Market Is Hampered by Rampant Piracy

The digital ebook market in Russia is growing according to the Russian…

Overdrive and Axis 360 Developing Streaming Movie Service for Libraries

Overdrive and Baker & Taylor are both working on new streaming movie…

Pixel Qi Receives a Massive Setback with Chunghwa Picture Tubes

Pixel QI quite famously said in an interview with Good e-Reader a…

Barnes and Noble Reaches App Distribution Deals with E FUN and Fuhu

Barnes and Noble made the internal call a few months ago to…

Penguin Seeks to Dismiss Class Action Lawsuit Against Author Solutions

Penguin purchased digital self-publisher Author Solutions last July, for a reported $116 million…

Shop e-Readers and Okanagan College Deliver Amazon e-Readers to Students

Shop e-Readers has announced today that it has reached a new agreement…

Barnes and Noble Plans to Support EPUB 3 and Start Selling eBooks via iOS

Barnes and Noble intends to update its iOS app to support EPUB…

Digital Publishers Turn to Microsoft SkyDrive to Deliver Content

Many Digital Publishers are facing distribution problems when their files go beyond…

Penguin and Random House Merger to Complete in July

Penguin and Random House have cleared the last hurdle with their proposed…

Interview: Otis Chandler of GoodReads Talks about Amazon

Otis Chandler, the CEO of GoodReads, founded the company in 2006 and…

CBS Acquires Majority Stake in TV Guide Digital

TV Guide Digital has been operating as a joint venture between CBS…

eBooks Account for 15% of All Books Sold in Canada

Electronic books are catching on like wildfire in the US and UK,…