California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2426, a new law that requires digital marketplaces to make clearer to customers when they are only purchasing a license to access media. The law will not apply to cases of permanent offline downloads, only to the all-too-common situation of buying... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-09-26 20:30:54 UTC ]
Womb House Books owner Jessica Ferri's carefully curated listings have turned her online storefront into the favorite bookseller of Emma Roberts, Natalie Portman, and thousands of Etsy customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
We’ve already brought your attention to the ways you can help bookstores (and bookstore workers) during the coronavirus pandemic, and here’s another one: a collective of recently laid-off booksellers has started an online storefront at Bookshop.org (in case you missed it, Bookshop is the new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-25 15:14:23 UTC ]
Aziz Isham did not intend to get into retailing. Instead, ReKiosk, the online storefront he cofounded that started up last week—it currently offers only music and books—came out of conversations he had been having with independent publishers. All of them, he said, expressed frustration over the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Nook digital reading offer will be live in the UK by mid-October through an online storefront,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
US bookseller Barnes & Noble has confirmed that it will be bringing its Nook digital eBook readers and bookstore to the UK in the autumn. Initially the devices, which include Nook Simple Touch and the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, will only be available through the company’s online... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]