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Is It Getting Harder for Writers to Make Money?

The book industry is drastically changing, and we at Good e-Reader have…

Essential eBook Releases for April 2012

April means Spring is in the air and people become a bit…

E-book Trailers: Latest Trend To Promote E-books

Now we have trailers of e-books on the cards. Designed much like…

Waterside, Vook Partner to Publish eBooks

GoodeReader first reported on an ebook publication start-up from Digital Book World…

Elle Lothlorien, CreateSpace Start Alternate Ending Trend

While the feelings in the industry about fan fiction are mixed—some authors…

Graphicly Shifting their Business Model into Digital Distribution

Graphicly is getting out of the business of selling comics and digital…

Google Ends Its eBook Affiliates Program…Again

Google apparently has an on-again, off-again relationship with its independent bookstores and…

Amazon Introduces Spanish Language eBook Store

Amazon today unveiled a new Spanish eBook store called “eBooks Kindle en…

Apple, Pearson, and Macmillan Continue to Fight Against eBook Settlement

Apple, Pearson and Macmillan are fighting tooth and nail to bow down…

Harry Potter eBooks Rake in 1.57 Million Dollars in 3 Days

The Harry Potter eBooks have been anticipated for years and finally went…

Pew Internet Project Uncovers Firm Statistics on Digital Reading

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, funded by the…

Amazon’s KDP Select Contains Over 100K Titles

It’s the retail ebook platform that everyone loves to hate, at least…

Blio eReading App Now Available on Azpen Tablets

With all the press surrounding the major names in tablet PCs, it’s…

Next Media Launches Netflix Style Magazine Subscription Service for Android

Next Media has just officially released their first Android offering that gives…

Lonely Planet Offers New eBook Guides in Time for the Olympics

Lonely Planet is well known for their travel guides that give people…

Apple’s Price Fixing Suit May Have Hurt Indie Authors

Apple and five of the Big Six publishers are still undergoing a…

Softlink Extends Overdrive License for Corporate and Academic Libraries

Overdrive is the leading company that facilitates the process of borrowing digital…

Publishers to Release Figures on Digital Magazines

Highly specific information on sales figures involving digital publishing has always been…

Nova Scotia Libraries Put the Kibosh on Random House eBooks

South Shore Public Libraries in Nova Scotia, Canada, have begun to boycott…

Heaven Is for Real Sells 1 Million eBooks

Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip…

Los Angeles Review of Books to Launch New Website Thanks to Amazon Grant

Thanks to a recent $25,000 Amazon grant that helped pay the editors…

Condé Nast Completes Sale of Fairchild Books to Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing has completed the sale of Fairchild Books today for $6.5…

Waterstone’s: 2012 Will Be a Crucial Year for Academic Books

The digital divide has finally begun to worry brick-and-mortar retailers of academic…