13 Japanese Companies Band Together to Challenge Amazon

Online retailer Rakuten have joined forces with a dozen other companies in…

British Digital Archive Now Available Only at the Library – No Web Access

The ambitious archive project embarked upon in the UK that aimed to…

Digital Magazine Store Magzter Gets $10 mn Series B Funding from Singapore Press Holdings

Magzter Inc. which counts itself among the fastest growing digital magazine store…

Readers Resist the Allure of eBooks

Major publishing companies such as Penguin, Hachette and Simon and Schuster are…

eBook Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck

Verdict: 4 Stars Game developer and author Jeff Kinney has done it…

The Dual Screen YotaPhone: Not Quite The Magical Device it Promised to be

The YotaPhone breaks a lot of new ground with its dual display…

Google Play Books Launches in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela

Google has embarked upon another major expansion drive, this time targeting the…

B&N Offering Free eBooks and eMagazines as Part of Exclusive Nook For Windows 8.1 in the UK

Barnes & Noble together With Microsoft has announced an exclusive Nook for…

National Library of Norway Digitizing All Books Published in Norway

The National Library of Norway has embarked on an ambitious mission, that…

Japanese Publishers and eBook Retailers Protesting Consumption Tax Hike, Demand Foreign Vendors be Taxed Too

Publishers and distributors of e-books in Japan have voiced concern over the…

Rapid Growth of Internet in Africa Leading to Digital Publishing Boom

Africa has long been referred to as the dark continent, which means…

NewsHunt Ventures Into eBook Space in India

The news aggregating app NewsHunt is the newest to enter the ebook…

Mountrath Community College Describes Its eLearning Program Based on HP Elite Pad a Disaster

With educational institutes around the world fast adopting digital means to ensure…

Russian eBook App Bookmate Offers Unlimited Access For $5 Monthly

Russia boasts of a rich literary culture, but is also besotted with…

Students in UK Want eBooks to be Priced Lower

eBooks already enjoy a price advantage over the printed counterparts though that…

McDonalds Promotes eBook Reading Among Kids with New Partnership

McDonald has entered into a partnership with DK Publishing that will lead…