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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 ...]

Updated: Amazon is Testing Title-Specific Kindle Gift Cards at Drug Stores in Washington State

22 January, 2016 // 20 Comments

eBook gift cards have been tried a half-dozen times in the past ten years, including as a way to sell digital textbooks, Christian books (Zondervan), and novels (in US Target stores). Aside from one [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 ...]

HarperCollins Launches Second Print+eBook Bundle Pilot in as Many Weeks

1 August, 2014 // 6 Comments

What's better than running one pilot program to test a new business model? According to HarperCollins, running two pilots at the same time. The US publisher launched a new pilot today which will [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 ...]

Target to Launch eBook Service in Partnership with Librify

27 May, 2014 // 10 Comments

Target announced their next foray into ebooks late Tuesday night, just in time for BEA 2014. According to USA Today, Target is going to be launching a new ebook club type of service in partnership [Read More ...]

Survey Shows Europeans Less Likely to Shop Online Than Americans – This Could Affect eBook Adoption

29 October, 2013 // 2 Comments

According to a new report from Eurostat, 3 out of 5 Europeans shopped online in 2012 with 32% buying clothes or vacations and only 23% buying books and other content. This report is based on a 2012 [Read More ...]

eBook Gift Card Maker Qinqo is Bankrupt

19 September, 2013 // 1 Comment

eBook gift cards suffered a setback today in the Netherlands. Qinqo, a Dutch startup that launched late last year, has posted a notice on their website that they are ceasing operations. In short, the [Read More ...]

eBook Gift Cards Now Available in 300 German Bookstores

6 March, 2013 // 1 Comment

eBook gift cards aren't having much visible success here in the US, with Livrada shifting towards selling to authors and publishers instead of consumers, bu in Germany they are quite popular. [Read More ...]

eBook Gift Card Startup Livrada Now Sells to Authors

11 February, 2013 // 7 Comments

Calif-based Livrada announced today that they have raised another round of funding and are embarking on a new way to sell ebook gift cards. Livrada had previous gotten press attention last year for [Read More ...]

Livrada eBook Gift Cards Now Available on Their Website

26 November, 2012 // 1 Comment

I've never been one to love the idea of ebook gift cards (they're not a good value), but today I found an adorable little gifting option which I'd like to share. There are 2 companies working on [Read More ...]

New eBook Gift Card Platform Launches in the Netherlands

6 November, 2012 // 0 Comments

Virtually all ebooks are sold online, but if today's news is any indication then there's a growing desire to sell them in brick-and-mortar stores as well. I've just come across a news report on yet [Read More ...]

Target Signs New Deal With Barnes & Noble

7 October, 2012 // 8 Comments

Over the past 6 months Target, one of America's largest retailers, has been thinning out their selection of ereaders. In May they dropped the Kindle, and in July they stopped carrying the Kobo [Read More ...]

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