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Barnes and Noble Digital Division Could Suffer from Justice Department Settlement

Earlier in the week the Justice Department sued 6 major publishers and…

Overdrive to Provide Metric Data on Library eBook Lending at the London Book Fair

Overdrive intends on releasing a massive amount of metrics based on all…

Australia May Sue Apple and Big 6 Publishers

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is petitioning citizens and businesses to…

Penguin Refuses to Settle in Dept of Justice Lawsuit

In the investigation launched by the Department of Justice against Apple, Inc…

Independent Publishers Guild putting Final Touches on London Book Fair

The Independent Publishers Guild is putting the final touches on the 2012…

Free iStoryTime App Book in Honor of Autism Awareness

Around the world, April is Autism Awareness Month. A number of campaigns…

Good e-Reader News available on Google Currents

Google just updated their Currents Reader application today that lets international publishers…

Google Currents is now available outside the US

Google Currents has updated their news reader application today that finally allows…

Survey says – 17% of US Adults have read 1 eBook in 2011

Publishing forecast firm Simba Information is well known in the last year…

US Justice Department Files Lawsuit against Apple and Top Publishers while others Settle in Court

The US Justice Department have officially filed a massive lawsuit against Hachette,…

Kobo to Host Talks at the London BookFair

Three executives from Kobo will be attending the London Book Fair happening…

Big Six Publishers Not Renewing Contracts with Amazon?

Paul Biba at Teleread wrote a fairly concise breakdown of an article…

IDPF Announces Speakers and Program Info for Digital Book 2012

Book Expo American 2012 is going to be happening in a few…

Several Key Players Weigh in on Apple, Big Six Investigation

The only real news in the US Department of Justice’s investigation of…

The Best Comic Book Readers for iOS and the New iPad

The Apple iPad lineup has a wellspring of applications for reading comic…

Publisher’s Weekly, Vook Offer Indie Authors A Select Plan

Publishers Weekly, the definitive magazine to the industry as a whole that…

Yahoo files Patent for eBook Advertising Systems

Yahoo has filed an application for two different patents aimed at serving…

iStoryTime Brings On New Creative Director

zuuka and iStoryTime announced today the hiring of a new Creative Director,…

ReadSocial Powers with Float Mobile to Add Backend API

While social reading is on the rise among ebook developers, especially those…

67% of All Libraries Now Carry eBooks

The American Library Association recently launched its 2012 State of Affairs documentation,…

CourseSmart Releases Browser Based Cloud Reader for eTextbooks

Coursesmart has just unveiled a new browser based solution for its digital…

Sourcebooks to Launch Subscription Based eBookstore Focused on Romance Titles

Sourcebooks has announced that they are going to be releasing a new…

Ape Entertainment Brings Sesame Street to Digital Comics

The creative team behind the digital comic Pocket God, based on the…