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...
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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...
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Updated: Amazon is Testing Title-Specific Kindle Gift Cards at Drug Stores in Washington State
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...
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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...
Continue readingCanadian 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...
Continue readingHarperCollins Launches Second Print+eBook Bundle Pilot in as Many Weeks
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...
Continue readingSnapcards 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....
Continue readingTarget to Launch eBook Service in Partnership with Librify
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...
Continue readingSurvey Shows Europeans Less Likely to Shop Online Than Americans – This Could Affect eBook Adoption
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...
Continue readingeBook Gift Card Maker Qinqo is Bankrupt
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...
Continue readingeBook Gift Cards Now Available in 300 German Bookstores
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...
Continue readingeBook Gift Card Startup Livrada Now Sells to Authors
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...
Continue readingLivrada eBook Gift Cards Now Available on Their Website
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...
Continue readingNew eBook Gift Card Platform Launches in the Netherlands
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...
Continue readingTarget Signs New Deal With Barnes & Noble
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...
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