Browsing Category

E-Book News

5233 posts

We are the largest news agency devoted to digital publishing, self-publishing, and the ebook industry. Learn about Kindle Books, Kobo books, E-Book DRM, and e-book apps.

HarperCollins Wants To Keep Canadian e-Book Prices High

In January the Canadian Competition Bureau commanded that Hachette, Macmillan and Simon…

Brazil is removing the tax on eBooks

The Supreme Court of Brazil has just ruled that ebooks will no…

Ebook Unit Sales at Each Retailer Broken Down by Publisher Type

The big five publishers in the last calendar year have managed to hang…

Barnes and Noble Sells More eBooks Than Kobo

Barnes and Noble gets skewered in the media for their massive decline…

Google Play Books is offering $5 in free ebook credit

Google Play is celebrating their 5th anniversary since they abandoned the “Android…

WattPad Tap is a new storytelling app and it’s blowing up

Tap by Wattpad is a free app for short, chat-style stories. The…

The 4 Best Books – Winter 2017

This winter a number of new and notable titles have hit bookstore…

Barnes and Noble Nook Sales Decline by 25.7%

Barnes and Noble has reported that Nook sales have declined 25.7% in…

Mozilla Purchases Pocket the Read it Later Service

Mozilla, the developers of the Firefox internet browser has just purchased Pocket…

Pearson Publishing records their biggest loss ever

Pearson is the largest textbook distributor and publisher in the world and…

E-Book Sales Declined 18.7% and Audio Grew 29.6% in 2016

There is no denying that e-book sales continue to plummet in the…

Ancient Egyptian Stories Transcribed in a New eBook

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs traditionally are not very accessible because only a handful…

Kobo Plus is a New Unlimited e-Book Subscription Program

Kobo has just launched a new unlimited subscription program for e-books. It…

Mall of America is looking for a Writer in Residence

The Mall of America is celebrating their 25th year of operation with…

Arkansas is going to tax audiobooks and e-books

The House Revenue and Taxation Committee in Arkansas is going to end…

Does KDP Paperback Publishing Really Solve Anything?

Never one to be a naysayer, we at GoodEReader ordinarily go fan-girl…

One Wattpad Story Has 282 YEARS’ Worth of Reads

Indie authors have long had a phenomenal tool that helped them reach…

Is Crowdfunding Your Book Worth It?

There’s little doubt that crowdfunding has reshaped the way we function as…

The Latest Amazon Kindle and Fire News & Rumors

2017 marks the ten year anniversary of the Amazon Kindle e-Reader and…

GoodReads Unveils New Rereading Feature

Millions of GoodReads users orchestrate their own reading challenges, whereby they set…

Kids love print, will they embrace eBooks later in life?

  E-Books have only been readily accessible since 2007 with the advent…

Toronto Public Library Discusses Audiobook and e-Book Curation

The Toronto Public Library had 3.7 million audiobook and e-book checkouts via…

HarperCollins e-Book Sales Increase by 3%

HarperCollins has just announced that their revenues in the second quarter of…