The German bookseller Thalia has achieved the booby prize of bookselling: it is now selling ebooks in its brick-and-mortar stores. A reader can select an ebook and buy it in the shop...Continue reading
Category: eBookstore
Yahoo Japan Outsources its eBookstore
According to a press release Yahoo Japan has outsourced its ebook operations to a company called eBook Initiative Japan. The handover will take place on 1 April, after which eBook Initiative Japan...Continue reading
Cory Doctorow Launches a Bookstore Where Authors Sell on Behalf of Publishers – Wait, What?
Cory Doctorow just announced his support for an ebookstore platform that has me scratching my head. It’s not just that he has apparently abandoned his support for free Creative Commons-licensed ebooks in favor...Continue reading
Google Play Books is Renting Harlequin Titles for $.99 a Day
Early last month Google briefly rented YA titles from HarperCollins for a dollar a day. Now they are running a similar sale on Harlequin titles. The weekly sales email from...Continue reading
All Romance eBooks is Shutting Down
2016 has already brutally winnowed book industry blogs, and now it has claimed an ebook retailer. All Romance eBooks has posted a notice on its site with the news that...Continue reading
Authors, Check Your Nook Sales
If you are an indie author with ebooks in Nook Press then you might want to check your dashboard. Numerous authors are reporting over on KBoards that sale records are...Continue reading
Amazon Adds eBooks in 5 Indian Languages to the Kindle Store
Amazon launched a local Kindle Store in India in 2012 – but only supported English. Yesterday they started to fix that oversight. The retailer announced on Thursday that it was...Continue reading
Mobipocket to Turn Off Its Website and Servers on 31 October
One of Amazon’s key steps in building the Kindle platform was buying the early ebook startup Mobipocket in 2005. The French company was stripped for parts and allowed to wither...Continue reading
EditionGuard Adds Social DRM Option to Its eBookstore Platform
In early 2013 EditionGuard launched an ebookstore platform where anyone could sell ebooks encumbered by Adobe DE DRM. The service cost $39 and up at the time, and there was...Continue reading
Sainsbury’s Shuts Down Its eBookstore, Hands Customers to Kobo
Remember back in March when B&N got out of the UK ebook market and surprised us all by handing its customers to Sainsbury’s rather than Kobo? It turns out that...Continue reading
Amazon Won’t Carry Kannada-Langauge eBook, Indian Literary Community Freaks Out
Remember back in 2011 when Amazon removed a Maltese-language book from the Kindle, and everyone lost their shit? It’s happening again, this time in India. The Times of India, Bangalore...Continue reading
Lit-Era.com Promises a Paid Alternative to Wattpad
Wattpad has carved a niche for itself as a community where writers can publish a work in sections, polishing it as they go, before putting the work up for sale...Continue reading
Tapas Adds Hachette Titles to Its Pay-As-You-Read Comics Platform
Hachette has signed a deal with Tapas to distribute titles to the latter’s mobile platform. Tapas will soon be carrying several Hachette titles, including thriller Underground Airlines by Ben Winters, Peter Brown’s...Continue reading
Txtr Has Closed, Customers Advised to Transfer Accounts to Juke
Eighteen months have passed since German ebook startup txtr declared bankruptcy, and just over a year since the company was taken over by Saturn, a media retailer and one of...Continue reading
Repost: There’s No Need to Change Amazon’s Kindle eBook Return Policy
There’s a post circulating this week about readers abusing Amazon’s return policy in the Kindle Store. Writing over at her Trout Nation blog, Jenny Trout, recounts: Amazon will refund readers for an...Continue reading
