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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.

Remarkable sold 1 million tablets since 2017

Remarkable has released two different product since 2017, their first and second…

Freedom of Speech & Book Banning in 2022

For many people, there’s an uneasy feeling in the air right now…

Hachette ebook sales declined in the past three months of 2022

Hachette is one of the largest publishers in the world and they…

Nostalgia for Bookstores Creating Expansion

Normally, I avoid malls like the plague. Sometimes, when I’m strolling along,…

BuzzFeed “Guts” Newsroom

In 2012, BuzzFeed made the bold choice to branch out from its…

Did Amazon Purposely Mislead Members?

Did Amazon purposely draw out the process of being able to cancel…

The E-Reader industry is on pause, due to the resurgence of COVID in China

China is facing some serious problems with COVID. Health officials stated the…

Ebook sales plummet 10.1% in January 2022

Digital book sales have fallen by double digit figures in the first…

Sterling Publishing Establishes Union Square & Co.

Union Square & Co. and Union Square Kids are the shiny new…

Amazon is shutting down all of their physical bookstores

Amazon plans on shutting down all 24 of their bookstores in the…

Blackwell’s Books has been sold to Waterstones

Blackwell’s Books has been the largest independent bookstore in the United Kingdom…

Good e-Reader unveils SMS messaging

Have you ever ordered anything online and not received any confirmation? This…

Amazon and Visa have come to terms for payment processing on the UK website

Amazon had a dispute with Visa in November, 2021. The company claimed…

Debating Audiobook Narrators; AI, Human or Both?

The idea of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as audiobook narrators, instead of…

Amazon’s Treasure Truck service expands in the United States

Want to know about exclusive deals on Amazon? Maybe it’s Treasure Truck…

Audiobook and ebook sales account for 17% of HarperCollins Revenue

In the last three months of 2021, which include the critically important…

The worst self-publishing company has been sold to Draft2Digital

Smashwords is an independent self-publishing company that has been in business for…

Amazon’s ‘Price-Fixing’ Program Shut Down

Following a recent investigation by the attorney general of Washington, Amazon was…

Blacklisted by Amazon, Chinese sellers flock to Walmart

Last April, Amazon kicked off 50,000 Chinese sellers off their platform and…

Maryland Digital Works Law Challenged

A precedent setting legal case regarding digital works is currently underway in…

Manga Piracy Crackdown Goes Global

Starting this April, thirteen countries are coming together with the goal of…

CES 2022 underway, set to conclude a day early

The yearly Consumer Electronics Show that is held in Las Vegas has…

Amazon forced to remove ratings, reviews of Chinese president’s book

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s book, The Governance of China is in the…