Publishers Weekly’s BookLife launches paid reviews for self-publishing authors
If you are a self-published author and don’t mind waiting 4-6 weeks, and handing over some cash,...
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StreetLib adds podcasts to its armoury. Partners with Voxnest’s N.Y. podcasting platform Spreaker
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a...
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Scholastic adds its children’s and YA list to the OverDrive digital library catalogue
Scholastic has boosted Rakuten OverDrive’s schools ebook catalogue with Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man and a...
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The San Diego Comic Con reminds us the attention economy is a two way street for the publishing industry, not an us-and-them battle of buzz-phrases
Tom Cruise. Natalie Portman, Patrick Stewart… The San Diego Comic Con has been dominated by...
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As OverDrive’s Libby partners with Apple’s CarPlay, how long before publishers start reigning in digital library audiobooks?
Thanks to a deal between Apple and Rakuten-OverDrive, the digital library app Libby is now...
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Pearson to phase out print textbooks in US as digital gathers momentum
As one of the world’s largest education publishing companies, the news that Pearson is to phase...
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Ebooks delivered the highest percentage of AAP publisher revenue in US adult fiction in 2018
It will have surprised few that, for the second year running, the StatShot Annual Report of the...
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OverDrive’s Sora app sees 240% increase in reading when school digital libraries connect to public libraries. A lesson in giving consumers choice
At the American Library Association Annual Meeting this month digital library content facilitator...
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OverDrive’s Summer Read incentivises kids to read in the summer break, but elsewhere some stubbornly insist if it’s not ink on paper it’s not real reading
Teachers invariably view the long summer break from school with mixed feelings. A chance to relax...
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Publishing breathes a collective sigh of relief at Barnes & Noble’s eleventh hour reprieve, but who will buy Nook?
You might be forgiven for thinking Barnes & Noble was such a train wreck that you couldn’t pay...
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At BEA New York StreetLib launches publisher portals across all the Americas. Now weeks away from a pan-global presence
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard, and while TNPS is not a...
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North America digital comics market worth upwards of $100 million in 2018. More when subscriptions factored in
It’s anyone’s guess what the value of the global comics market is, but for North America the best...
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