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Kobo at Walmart will be the deathblow for the B&N Nook

The only meaningful competition in the United States is Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Amazon sells their Kindles primarily online and people find it hard to get any hands on experience, before they buy one. Barnes and Noble has moved the Nook section to the back of the store and is slowly dismantling all of their Nook kiosks at every bookstore. This situation has been ripe for Kobo to make a major splash.

Here is a breakdown of how much libraries pay for ebooks from publishers

Major publishers all have different strategies for selling ebooks to the public library system. Baker & Taylor, Overdrive and a myriad of others have to have enough of a selection to keep their patrons satisfied, but it can be challenging to know all of the different prices, terms and models that publishers employ, since they have changed many times over the years.

Here are the 2018 Hugo Award Winners

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works. These are all of the winners from last year.

India lowers the tax on ebooks

India has just lowered the tax on ebooks from 18% to 5%,…

German ebook sales increase by 16% in the first 6 months of 2018

German ebook sales have risen by 16.4% and the number of customers who purchased at least one ebook increased by 6.1% in 2018.

Apple should release iBooks on Android

Apple iBooks is the second largest retailer in the United States. In…

Scribd has just increased their throttling limits

Scribd relaunched their unlimited audiobook and ebook service back in February. The…

E-Book Piracy is declining in Europe

A new study conducted by the Institute for Information Law and financed by…

Amazon Rapids ditches subscription model and is now free

Amazon Rapids is an Android and iOS app that launched in 2016 and…

Walmart will start selling Kobo e-readers and e-books on August 21st

Walmart signed an agreement with Rakuten Kobo earlier this year to sell…

People are losing their faith in e-books

Bokon.se is one of the most popular digital bookstores in Sweden and…

E-book publishers fail to remove the Pirate Bay from Google

The top digital publishers in the world constantly petition Google to remove…

Ebook sales decline 3% in first four months of 2018

In the first four months of 2018 publishers revenue increased by $172.8…

Amazon redesigns X-Ray on Kindle for iOS

Amazon has just redesigned X-Ray for the Kindle app for the iPad…

Kobo Originals now available on Overdrive

Kobo Originals launched in early 2018 and the program features audiobooks and…

Kobo e-readers will be in US Walmart stores in August

Walmart is been expanding the tech department in many of their retail…

Author Suzanne Brockmann Sets #RWA18 on Fire with Award Speech

Most people probably wouldn’t look to the annual conference of a romance…

TOR is delaying front-list ebooks on Overdrive

TOR is one of the largest science fiction and fantasy publishers in…

Amazon is going to launch the Kindle in Sweden

Amazon is planning on launching an Amazon website in Sweden and is…

Amazon Prime Reading now available in France

Amazon has just launched their Prime Reading program in France.  Subscribers can…

Apple might bundle news and magazines with music and video

Apple is looking to become a viable player in the online subscription…

Simon and Schuster Launches Book Club Favorites

Simon & Schuster is launching a virtual book club and they have…

Everything you need to know about Social DRM for ebooks

The vast majority of major publishers in North America use very intrusive…