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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 Bestselling Book Published 2 Days Into Maui Wildfires Raising Red Flags

How could a book about the Maui, Hawaii fires be written, edited,…

How to Spot a Counterfeit Textbook

With students heading back to campus, life will soon be busy with…

Simon & Schuster might finally be sold

Penguin Random House is the largest publishing company in the world, and…

Secondary Publishing Rights to Improve Public Access

On July 4th 2023, Canada’s Federal Research Granting Agencies launched a review…

Security and Privacy Practices of E-Reader Apps and Devices

When it comes to the printed word, paper is no longer the…
RBmedia

Global Alternative Investment Firm H.I.G. Capital to Acquire RBmedia

Image credit: fusoesaquisicoes KKR and H.I.G. Capital has recently made an announcement…
AI Authors AI Companies copyright infringement

Authors Write Open Letter to AI Companies for Copyright Infringement

The Internet is flooded by AI models like Chat GPT, and the…
Self help books readers

Who is Reading More Self-Help Books: Men or Women?

According to NPD Group, an American market research company, U.S. sales of…
Print Book Sales 2023

Print Book Sales Dropped in the First Half of 2023

After making strikingly strong sales during the pandemic, print books had a…

Lawsuit filed against Amazon for ‘Tricking’ Users Into Prime Subscriptions

Amazon has been accused of using deceptive practices by the Federal Trade…

Authors sign open letter to AI CEOs

In April, The New York Times wrote a piece tracking the progress…
Italian book piracy data

Italian Publishers Lost €771 to Book Piracy in 2021

In 2019, the Association of Italian Publishers and the Italian Federation of…
Meta blocks content in Canada

Meta Will Be Testing Their News Block Initiative in Canada

Meta has stopped featuring news content for some users in Canada after…
benefits of reading before bed

5 Benefits of Bedtime Reading: What Does the Science Say?

Bedtime reading is a hygienic activity that can stimulate good sleep. It…
harry potter tv series

“Harry Potter” Book Series to be Adapted into an Epic Decade-Long TV Series

Exciting news for Harry Potter fans! Harry Potter and his friends are…

For 2022, major publishers saw flat book sales

A fall in profits at Penguin Random House, Lagardère Publishing, and HarperCollins…

The big store that feels like a little shop; how Book Curation sets B&N apart

Barnes & Noble (B&N) is over 150 years old, so it’s understandable…

A new insight was released that Canadians read more Romance in 2022

According to recent data published by BookNet Canada, It Ends with Us…

Internet Archive and Publishers Resolution is at hand

The Internet Archive and major publishers have been fighting in court for…

Indigo employees’ data taken in ransomware attack

  Some current and former Indigo employees have received some really bad…

US Judge blocks Simon & Shuster Merger with Penguin Random House

The proposed merger between two of the largest publishers in the world…

The Amazon vs Huawei legal battle might have to do with the Kindle Scribe

Amazon is accused of infringing copyrights held by Huawei which might be…

Shopify settles with publishers for textbook and ebook piracy lawsuit

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