Amazon Responsible for Huge Share of Hachette Ebook Sales

Amazon is responsible for 78% for Hachette ebook sales in the UK, and 60% in the United States — which makes the company especially vulnerable. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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Apple blasts the DOJ's proposed ebook price settlement

Apple called the DOJ's proposed settlement to the ebook price fixing case 'fundamentally unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon trialling local delivery scheme

Amazon is reportedly trialling a scheme to deliver parcels which customers can collect from... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rakuten beats Amazon to Japanese e-reader market

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[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Court lets Google appeal ebooks class status

Google has won the right to appeal the granting of class status to thousands of authors suing the search engine company over its ambitious plan to create the world's largest digital books library. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book sales slump during Olympics

Printed book sales in the UK slumped 7% (£1.8m) to £24.5m week on week in the second... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK: DRM 'working very well'

Hachette UK has insisted its model of selling ebooks with Digital Rights Management included [... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifty Shades boosts US sales

The US book business is starting to reap the benefit of strong sales of the Fifty Shades of Grey... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Open Road to publish Chicken Soup ebooks

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[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More ebooks sold than print books

Online retailer Amazon announces it sells more ebooks than hardbacks and paperbacks combined. Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twenty pence ebook cracks Kindle top three

An ebook being offered on the Kindle store for 20p has broken the top-three monopoly of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DoJ moves to seal ebook pricing agreement

The Department of Justice has filed a motion with Judge Denise Cote asking her to approve the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London's Olympic sales dip continues

  London booksellers say trade has continued slow as the predicted Olympic boost fails to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Report: consumers switch between print and ebooks

A new study by the Book Industry Study Group says readers are choosing both print and ebooks. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poor turnout hits ebook festival

A ebook literary festival expecting up to 20,000 visitors ends early after only 100 show up. Continue reading at BBC World

[ BBC World | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James 'has outsold Potter' on Amazon UK

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[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate halts sale of Lehrer book

Canongate has stopped the distribution and sale of Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harlequin: 20p ebook price 'out of our hands'

Tim Cooper, commercial director of Harlequin, has spoken out over the inclusion of one of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo launches roadshow as indies ponder ebook options

Kobo is due to launch a country-wide roadshow to showcase its ebook offering to independent... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debate over 20p ebooks rages on

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[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arrow snaps up six Sweet Valley ebook novellas

Arrow has acquired six novellas that follow on from Francine Pascal's adult novel, Sweet... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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