Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me (Avon) kept its kid leather-gloved grip on the Bookstat e-book number one this spot week, as its Netflix adaptation was renewed for a second series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-27 17:20:07 UTC ]
Among the group's priorities will be to advocate for “less restrictive" e-book licenses and new digital licenses that would allow libraries to "own" digital works with the same associated rights as print materials. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
On January 14, a prominent class-action law firm announced it was suing over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market—the second such suit in a decade. What should we make of the news? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is being sued for anti-competitive behaviour in the United States by the same law firm that successfully sued Apple and five major publishers for colluding to fix e-book prices in 2011. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-17 12:13:54 UTC ]
The law firm that successfully sued Apple and five major publishers for colluding to fix e-book prices in 2011 has filed a class action against Amazon, accusing the company of colluding with the Big Five publishers to eliminate price competition from the e-book market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
BookLife Elite will offer public libraries access to a curated collection of unlimited, simultaneous-use indie e-books, meaning library readers can access the books instantly—no holds lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Jess Lourey's Bloodline (Thomas & Mercer) topped the Bookstat e-book chart for the week ending 2nd January 2021, heading a top four of Amazon-published titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-07 01:36:52 UTC ]
Duckworth imprint Farrago has this week launched its own online shop for e-book readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-21 13:25:47 UTC ]
Hodder Studio has pre-empted two books from Amanda Block, including her debut The Lost Storyteller, which will be published in July 2021 in hardback, e-book and audiobook. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 15:06:19 UTC ]
The potential deal would be a breakthrough moment in the library e-book market as Amazon currently does not make its digital content available to libraries. It would also be a major coup for the Digital Public Library of America's upstart e-book platform and its SimplyE library reading app. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Morgan’s One More for Christmas (HQ) held on to the Bookstat e-book number one for a second week, in the week ending 28th November, with three weeks still to go until the big day. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-03 02:19:53 UTC ]
Sarah Morgan’s One More for Christmas (HQ)—assuredly not a reference to the number of households she is inviting over this year—zipped to first place in the Bookstat e-book top 10 for the week ending 21st November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 00:56:27 UTC ]
All Chicago Public Schools high school students and staff can freely access the e-book and digital audio of 'A Promised Land' through December 31, 2020, via OverDrive's Sora app. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-24 05:00:00 UTC ]
Steve Cavanagh’s Fifty-Fifty (Orion) has once again reigned atop the Bookstat e-book top 10 for the week ending 24th October, with Martina Cole’s No Mercy (Headline) holding firm in the runner-up spot for a second week running. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 03:52:52 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Publishing has delivered its highest first half earnings since 2008, as "signficantly higher” online book sales and e-book revenues led to year-on-year profit growth of 60% to £4m in the six months ended 31st August 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 15:50:49 UTC ]
Steve Cavanagh’s Fifty-Fifty (Orion) beat the odds to top the Bookstat e-book top 10 for the week ending 10th October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 02:37:30 UTC ]
Martyn Ford’s Every Missing Thing (Thomas & Mercer) zipped straight to the top of the Bookstat e-book top 10 for the week ending 3rd October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-07 19:45:45 UTC ]
The London Library has started offering e-book loans to its members for the first time in a partnership with OverDrive. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-28 00:23:57 UTC ]
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) has charted top of the Bookstat e-book top 10 in its second week on sale, rising from third to score an across-formats double, after its hardback claimed the UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 21:50:09 UTC ]
A federal judge in Washington has issued a preliminary injunction against a major e-book piracy operation known as the KISS Library, after the operators of the site failed to show up at a hearing or to file any response to a lawsuit filed in July by the Authors Guild, Amazon Publishing, Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-01 04:00:00 UTC ]