Category: USA
Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out over a quarter billion dollars in royalties to KDP authors for second year running
It’s been a good year for print and a great year for audiobooks. Ebooks, not so much. Or so we...
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Penguin Random House pulls English-language titles from Storytel, Bookbeat and Nextory. Unhappy with terms? Or is a PRH streaming service launch imminent?
A few days ago it emerged PRH titles were disappearing from the Storytel, Nextory and Bookbeat...
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OverDrive’s reading app Sora, in 23,000 schools globally, almost doubled student reading time in 2019
The secret sauce of the Sora children’s reading app from OverDrive is that is doesn’t just...
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Amazon’s Audible and US audiobook publishers reach settlement in captions dispute
Not much detail on this story as yet, but it seems Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service,...
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OverDrive demolishes the nonsense that readers have abandoned ebooks for audiobooks as 2019 breaks records for both, adding to uncertainty about Kobo’s future
We’ve heard it so many times its hard not to start believing it. Screen fatigue is driving...
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The TNPS Festive Season Weeks in Review
For those who didn’t get the chance to open any or all the regular email notifications from TNPS,...
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US Publishers v Amazon’s Audible law suit close to resolution?
It seems not all of western publishing has been on hold over the Christmas-New Year break....
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Rakuten ditches OverDrive. Acquired by equity firm KKR. Should Kobo be nervous?
When it comes to hiding bad news, Christmas Day must come high on the list of best times to...
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USA’s global digital books subscription service Scribd sees revenue rise 25% in 2019, bringing in over $100 million revenue
Despite many publishers deliberately avoiding the all-you-can-eat digital books subscription...
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PRK UK’s new centralised rights; B&N Education’s poor quarter; Hachette UK’s Changing the Story Day; PRH UK’s Xmas Gift site
A quick glance at some top publishing stories from the industry trade journals. PRH UK unveils...
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Smashwords launches “presales” – not to be confused with pre-orders – and for first time patents its tech innovation
In the battle to stand out in the ever more competitive US indie author aggregator arena the key...
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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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