Category: Ebooks
Amazon bookstores embrace spine-out shelf-stacking. Indigo sales fall again. And two sides to the Macmillan digital library boycott saga
Some Amazon critics may have been excited by the opening of Nate Hoffelder’s recent post in The...
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Storytel Sweden hits 400,000 subscribers amid 1 million globally, but confusion surrounds the number of Storytel markets. Is it 18 or 19?
Storytel this week announced it has crossed the 400,000 subscriber mark on its home territory,...
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Gaming the system pays… on Amazon UK. Over 30% of the Amazon UK Top 100 Kindle ebooks are in breach of Amazon rules and BIC guidelines. Including Amazon’s own titles
Back in March 2018 the BIC called on UK publishers not to game the system by abusing metadata....
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Poland: a digital book market snapshot to mark the Kraków International Book Fair
The 23rd Kraków International Book Fair is underway. It’s one of the biggest publishing industry...
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Draft2Digital confirms termination of its distribution agreements with Google Play. Kicks out Playster too
It comes as no great surprise that Draft2Digital is ending its distribution partnership with...
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US bookstore sales decline 10% in August, but do the numbers reflect a drift to digital, not fewer books sold?
Preliminary figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate sales of printed books from...
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Nextory launches in Denmark. Two more markets expected before year’s end
We’ve known since before summer that Denmark would be Nextory’s fourth market launch, and CEO...
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Storytel adds 127k subscribers in Q3. Revenue up 43% in the 4th streaming success story this month. US and UK publishers look the other way
The silence is deafening. While Bookbeat, Nextory, YouScribe and now Storytel and Ubook deliver...
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Digital books streaming service YouScribe on target for 300k subscribers by end 2019. Equals Storytel’s non-Nordic reach in first year – in Africa
When we think of digital books subscription services it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture...
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Findaway adds BajaLibros, Leamos, Bidi and Fuuze as audiobook distribution partners
It wasn’t so long ago that independent authors who wanted to get a piece of the audiobook...
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Nextory reports 130% growth. Bookbeat 127% growth. Kobo launches in Sweden. “Digital books are hotter than ever”
Any thoughts that maybe the Scandinavian love affair with digital books might be drawing to a...
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NetGalley Advanced arrives in UK, France and Germany nine months after US launch
When it comes to getting new books noticed in the digital age, advance copies sent out to trusted...
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