Category: USA
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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Three months jail for not returning a library book. EC horror comics. Canada’s only poetry book store. China’s biggest book store
Thanks to Instagram, poetry has been given a new lease of life, with the beauty of poetry suddenly...
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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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The new Harry Potter subscription service will set you back $75 to get the ebooks you probably own already, but the extras make it a great deal for Potter fans
Earlier this month, buried in the deluge of news from Frankfurt, a new Harry Potter digital...
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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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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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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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US-based self-publishing aggregator PublishDrive changes payment model for authors
Originating from Hungary, now based in the US, PublishDrive is the youngest of the new breed of...
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“People who buy audiobooks buy more print books than people who don’t buy audiobooks” – Audible
Variety this week carries the news that Amazon’s Audible is hiring top Hollywood names to narrate...
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Start The Day Global with a Muslim superhero; Trinidad & Tobago’s Carifesta; The Philippines Comic Con; and Barnes & Noble’s reputation
Marvel has confirmed a Muslim superhero named Ms Marvel – Pakistani-American teenager Kamala...
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Washington National Book Festival poster reveal
The Library of Congress National Book Festival 2019 has been revealed, and it’s a stunning...
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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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