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 Enthrill,...Continue reading
Category: eBook Gift Card
BookinCard Brought eBook Gift Cards to Stores in France, Russia
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...Continue reading
Amazon Ends Pilot Test of Title-Specific Kindle Gift Cards
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...Continue reading
Are eBook Gift Cards on the Rise or Decline?
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...Continue reading
Canadian eBook Startup Enthrill Raises $1.3 Million in New Funding Round
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 group of...Continue reading
Snapcards Adds Random House, Bonnier Titles to its eBook Gift Card Service
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...Continue reading