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Firebrand Acquires Enthrill’s eBook DRM Tech

12 January, 2017 // 1 Comment

The ebook tech services company Firebrand has just expanded into yet another market niche. Firebrand announced this morning that it had closed a deal to acquire IP created by Calgary-based [Read More ...]

BookinCard Brought eBook Gift Cards to Stores in France, Russia

22 November, 2016 // 2 Comments

Last week's news about the end of Amazon's gift card pilot has turned up a couple similar services in France and Russia. Both are coincidentally called BookinCard, although only one is still in [Read More ...]

Amazon Ends Pilot Test of Title-Specific Kindle Gift Cards

15 November, 2016 // 0 Comments

This morning's press release about Amazon adding Bartell Drugs to its Prime Now service reminded of another partnership between the two retailers. In October 2015 Amazon started testing the sale of [Read More ...]

Are eBook Gift Cards on the Rise or Decline?

15 December, 2014 // 2 Comments

A pair of stories crossed my desk this morning which, if reported separately, would suggest that the idea of ebook gift cards was either popular or had fizzled in the market. But put them together [Read More ...]

Canadian eBook Startup Enthrill Raises $1.3 Million in New Funding Round

11 August, 2014 // 0 Comments

Enthrill Distribution, a provider of innovative digital content distribution technologies for the publishing industry, announced on Friday that they had raised $1.3 million in new financing from a [Read More ...]

Snapcards Adds Random House, Bonnier Titles to its eBook Gift Card Service

24 June, 2014 // 1 Comment

The ebook gift card market may have largely fizzled here in the US (the money seems to be in bulk sales), but that is not the case in Europe. For example, the startup eBookCards boasts that they [Read More ...]