Penguin Random House has announced that they are closing the My Independent Bookshop on December 21st because it failed to garner significant interest to keep the platform going. The essence of the social platform is that it encourages readers to set up their own virtual bookshops to share their favorite reads as well as discover, recommend and review books online. The … [Read more...] about My Independent Bookshop is closing in the UK
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New Kobo Program Aimed at Indie Booksellers
Kobo was present at a UK booksellers’ meeting in London yesterday to discuss its new program to help indie bookshops sell ebooks to their customers, alongside a neutral device powered by The Hive Network and an affiliates’ program from social reading and book browsing site Anobii. Together, the program is hoping to help small stand-alone bookstores keep up in the digital age … [Read more...] about New Kobo Program Aimed at Indie Booksellers