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Kindle First e-Books for February 2016

Kindle First is a program that launched in 2013 and it allows…

Koreans are reading less books

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recently did a report on…

J.K. Rowling Writes New Short Story on North American Wizard Schools

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has just written a new short story…

Amazon Word Runner is Worthless

Every few weeks there is a new app that promises readers new…

Amazon Launches Pilot Program for e-book Gift Cards

Amazon has just launched a new pilot program in Washington State that…

iCloud for iBooks will now Sync sideloaded e-books

Apple is currently in the process of fleshing out their new iCloud…

e-Books Account for 6.5% of the Netherlands Book Selling Industry

The e-book industry in the Netherlands is on the rise and in…

Overdrive is hyping up Local Content

Overdrive Local Content is a program that has been around since 2013 and…

Amazon Launches Kindle Instant Book Previews

Amazon has just launched a new program called Kindle Instant Book Previews.…

Kobo will tell you how long it will take to read an eBook

Kobo is developing a new system on their website that will estimate…

Public Domain e-books are all about the cover art

Many small publishing companies get their start by taking public domain e-books…

What authors need to know about the new Kindle warning system

Amazon has announced that they will be publicly warning users if an e-book has…

Amazon Launches a Free Kindle e-Book Program in the UK

Amazon has just launched a new promotional campaign in the United Kingdom.…

Kindle e-Books will have a warning message if they have spelling mistakes or bad formatting

There are thousands of e-books on the Amazon Kindle Store that have…

Amazon is Shutting Down Shelfari

Shelfari launched in 2006, a few years before the big e-book boom.…

Netgalley offers thousands of free e-books

Netgalley is certainly not a household name, but it’s a company that…

The e-Reader Industry Needs to Address e-book Content Errors

Major publishers collectively sold 250 million e-books in 2015 and a significant…

People are starting to read more e-books in Europe and Russia

e-Book adoption may have plateaued in Canada and the United States but…

E-Book Sales Have Slowed Down this Past Christmas

The publishing industry typically waits for the last eight weeks of the…

Watch a Book get made from scratch

Whenever you walk into a large bookstore the sheer number of titles…

Google Play Books Now Available in the Middle East

Google has just made their Google Play Books e-reading system available in…

The Japanese Print Industry is being Disrupted by Digital

The Japanese book industry has fallen 5.2 percent in 2015 and magazine…

Kobo Price Match is Now Available in Canada

Kobo has a new e-book price matching system that lets you save…