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Media Moguls Team Up to Form Brightline ePublishing

Barry Diller, the Chairman of AC/InterActiveCorp, and film producer Scott Rudin have…

Amazon Introduces Popular 70% Royalty Option for India

Kindle Direct Publishing Select by Amazon lets you exclusively publish your ebooks…

Harvard Business Review Offering DRM-Free eBooks

Digital Rights Management is a hot button issue and many companies employ…

Kobo and the UK Booksellers Association Bring eReaders and eBooks to Indie Bookstores

Recently Kobo reached an agreement with the American Booksellers Association to bring…

eBook Sales Increase by 188% in the UK

In the first six months of 2012, ebook sales went up 188% in…

A New Report States 15% of All eBook Reviews Will Be Fake by 2014

A new report by Gartner Research points out a very disturbing trend…

Overdrive Clarifies New Hachette eBook Increase Is Only 104%

Overdrive reported last week in an email to libraries that ebooks provided…

Book Publisher Launches Educational Tablet at the Manila International Book Fair

One of the major events that occurred at the Manila Book Fair was…

What New Amazon Kindle or Kobo e-Reader Will You Buy?

We have seen many new e-readers announced over the course of the…

Study Shows the Majority of YA Fiction Is Purchased by Adults

Young Adult Fiction is enjoying a tremendous amount of popularity for the…

Bibliofile ePaper Powers Devices via Page Turns

Artist and Designer Nadeem Haidary has developed a new technology called Bibliofile…

Livraria Cultura and Kobo Partner to Bring eBooks to Brazil

Kobo and Livraria Cultura have just officially signed an agreement that will…

Hachette Increases the Cost of Library eBooks by 220%

When it comes to the big six publishers, most of them don’t…

Overdrive Adds 40,000 New eBook Titles in the Last Month

Overdrive is the definitive leader in technology to facilitate digital ebook lending…

Kindle Paperwhite Will Not See an International Release until 2013

Sources at Amazon have informed us today that the new Amazon Kindle…

Waterstones Sheds Some New Light on Their Deal with Amazon

Waterstones will begin selling the Kindle Fire HD line of tablets and…