Walmart has officially launched the Amazon ebook and audiobook rival it's been working on with Kobo this past year. The big box retailer announced its partnership with Kobo's parent company Rakuten back in January, promising to give its customers (i... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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The Friday Project's Confessions of a GP has been crowned the top-selling UK ebook of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has launched its first ebook bundles, collections of two or three titles in a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gallimard reduced the prices of its 1,500 ebooks on Monday (19th December), two weeks ahead of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House has released two more Nigella Lawson cookbooks as ebooks today (20th December),... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fear that Amazon will come to dominate the bookselling market is nothing new in the publishing industry. But last week, as booksellers continued to decry the companys price check app (which could be used to access prices on booksellers sideline items, like toys and DVDs) and as information... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since its launch last December in partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Google eBooks has yet to capture significant market share. According to the Codex Groups recent Showrooming study, while the number of people who read both print books and ebooks has grown from 25% in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon.co.uk has announced its New Year discounting already, launching what it calls "... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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China's biggest online book retailer E-Commerce China Dangdang plans to begin selling ebooks... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If showrooming wasnt part of the industry lexicon before last week, it is now, thanks to Amazons price check app that gives customers up to $15 in discounts to those who scan prices of products at different stores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The five publishers being investigated over ebook pricing could face fines of many millions of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Commission has announced it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Commission has announced it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to a survey, 24 percent of people who said they had bought books from an online retailer in the last month also said they had seen the book in a brick-and-mortar bookstore first. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2011-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Waterstone's m.d. Tim Coates is to launch Bilbary (www.bilbary.com), an international... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish chain bookseller Eason looks likely to escape sizeable store closures following the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children's Books has produced a new app for classic picturebook Paddington,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has launched the Kindle Store in Spain and Italy, as well as its first Spanish-language... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Penguin announced last week that it was disabling library ebook lending on the Kindle and pulling its latest ebook titles from all library lending platforms, libraries and readers took the hit, but to some observers they were collateral damage in a fight between publishers and Amazon about... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Falco creator Lindsey Davis has become the new chair of the Society of Authors, vowing to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin UK is now withholding the supply of its new ebook releases to its library suppliers in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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