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Are reading eBooks on e-Readers environmentally friendly?

Earth Day is this Saturday and many people will likely be reading a…

E-Books Decline 16.4% and Audiobooks increase by 29.2%

The Association of American Publishers has reported that from January to November…

E-Book Subscription Services Are Booming in the Netherlands

The Netherlands is experiencing a increase in the number of people who…

You can now buy e-books in Thalia Bookstores

Thalia has just unveiled a bold new initiative that hopes that book…

The Microsoft eBookstore Launches Today In The United States

Microsoft has launched their digital bookstore today and you can access it…

Goodreads Invites Readers to Step Out of their Book Boxes

Popular reader-centric community Goodreads shared news this week of a new challenge…

Good e-Reader Weekend Edition

Good e-Reader is well known in the digital publishing and e-reader industry…

Amazon KDP Unveils Kindle Create Word Doc Conversion Tool

If you’re a self-published author, writing your book is only half the…

Macmillan offers Joe and Jill Biden $60 million book contract

Macmillan Publishing has just bid $60 million dollars a multi-book contract to…

Russian Bookseller Develops New FB3 EBook Format

The long term viability of the EPUB format is in serious doubt…

Kobo Acquires Shelfie Technology

Kobo has just announced that it has acquired Shelfie, a service that…

Amazon Influencer Wants Big Name Social Media Stars

Amazon Influencer is a new program currently in Beta. It is available…

You would be surprised who pirates eBooks the most

The amount of pirated e-books that are publicly available on Torrent sites…

Microsoft Digital Bookstore is opening on April 11th

Microsoft has developed a digital bookstore where they will be selling hundreds…

How to add custom fonts to your Kobo e-Reader

Kobo is one of the only e-reader companies that allow you to…

Amazon Unveils Send to Kindle Functionality on iOS

Amazon has just pushed out an update for Kindle for iPad and…

The Publishing Industry Relies On Midlist Authors

The publishing industry constantly bemoans the lack a true bestseller that generate…

The State of the European eBook Market

The European e-book market has been growing since 2007 when Amazon started…

Japanese e-book sales increase by 13.2% in 2016

The Japanese e-book and digital manga industry has experienced a 13.2% increase…

D&D Beyond is a new digital initiative from Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast is experiencing a tremendous boom period with Dungeons…

EU Court Rules that Ebooks will not receive a lower VAT

The European Court of Justice has ruled that audiobooks and e-books are…

E-Books are on the decline in the United Kingdom

E-Books have just experienced their first decline in the United Kingdom. 4%…

HarperCollins Unveils Two Book Recommendation AI Bots To Facebook

Book recommendation systems have been getting more advanced in recent years.  In…