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Harlequin Facing Lawsuit for Not Paying Its Authors Full Royalties

Quill and Quire reported today that romance publishing company Harlequin has been…

Penguin to Get into the Self-Publishing Game with Author Solutions Purchase

Penguin Publishing is poised to enter the highly competitive market of digital…

Kids eBook Sales Are Surging in 2012

Reading to your children when they are going to sleep is a…

Google Play Books Now Available in France

Google Play Books is now available in France! Google said its selection…

eBooks Now Account for 30% of All US Fiction

There is strong momentum in the USA’s world of ebooks. Sales nearly…

Barnes and Noble Encouraging Teen Digital Reading

It’s been a long-standing paradox that teenagers are the demographic least likely…

Kobo Launches the Writing Life Self-Publishing Platform

Kobo has finally taken the wraps off of its newest project, Kobo…

Digital Gives Old Characters a New Life

For those who stay current on the trends in digital publishing, one…

eBook Visibility in Australian Schools Increases Dramatically

Digital eBooks in the Australian school system are increasing dramatically.  More than…

Sweet Valley Twins Return as e-Singles

Many girls grew up in the 80’s reading Nancy Drew and the…

More Publishers Experiment with eBook-Only, eBook-First

An original piece in Publisher’s Weekly revealed that more and more traditional…

Japan Making Ready for Digital Reading Explosion

Japan is looking ahead to the launch of four separate e-reader devices…

eBook Review: Black List by Brad Thor

Verdict: 5-Stars I sincerely hope that Brad Thor is just a great…

eBook Startup Livrada Could Save the Brick and Mortars

Laura Hazard Owen of paidContent.org wrote an article on new ebook startup…

Smashwords’ CEO Mark Coker on Publishing Milestones

Yesterday, Smashwords’ CEO Mark Coker updated the company blog with a stunning…

DITA Strategies Webinar Brought a Varied Educational Publishing Audience

Amber Swope, founder of DITA Strategies, hosted a webinar with Data Conversion…

ebrary Adds 9,000 New eBooks to Government Libraries

ebrary won a government contract a month ago that put it in…

50 Shades of Grey Sells 20 Million Copies in the US

The 50 Shades of Grey series is undoubtedly the most successful book…

Kickstarter Quietly Becomes the 4th Largest Graphic Novel Publisher

When Kickstarter first launched in 2008, it had aspirations to tap into…

Amazon Takes Full Advantage of the Sales Tax Situation

Many major retailers have argued that if Amazon were finally forced to…

Bloomsbury Publishing Sees Exponential Growth Due to eBooks

Bloomsbury Publishing has announced an increase in digital sales by over 70%.…

Terry Goodkind Smites an eBook Pirate

Terry Goodkind is quite famous in literary circles for his Sword of…

Next Issue Media CEO Morgan Guenther on Subscription-Based Digital Magazines

GoodeReader reported yesterday on the iOS launch of Next Issue’s subscription reading…