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E-book Sales Bolster Publishers' Bottom Lines
E-book sales had a major impact on all of the major trade publishers' 2012 performance, with Random House coming out the biggest winner thanks to the success of the 50 Shades trilogy.
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Amazon's Goodreads Purchase Draws Raves, Pans on Twitter
Goodreads members and the book community on Twitter responded vociferously to the acquisition of Goodreads by Amazon.com, offering both sober analysis and an outpouring of mordant, gloomy wit about the future of the social reading site.
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Amazon Buys Goodreads
Amazon has acquired Goodreads.com, a Web site featuring user-generated reviews of books. The purchase comes amid mounting rumors that Goodreads, which CEO Otis Chandler launched in 2007, might start selling books.
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Open Road Using Enthrill Distribution for Special Sales
Enthrill's Endpaper fulfillment engine allows it to provide e-books to readers in a device-agnostic format.
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SXSW 2013: Mobile Is the Future of Retail
How are mobile devices revolutionizing the retail experience today? How will they reshape shopping in the near future? This was topic of discussion at thw SXSWi panel Retail Is Going Mobile.
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Apple Launches iBookstore in Japan, Highlights Self-Pub In U.K.
Apple is making moves with its e-book retailing abroad. The tech giant has launched its iBookstore in Japan, while pushing a campaign highlighting self-published books in Ireland and the U.K.
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Judge Sets Date for Apple, Amazon Discovery Hearing
As Apple continues to move ahead to defend itself against the Department of Justice’s e-book price-fixing lawsuit, the company has asked Judge Denise Cote to step in to resolve a “discovery dispute” with Amazon.
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Update on Amazon E-book Borrowing
The monthly pool for borrowed e-books In Amazon's KDP Select program grew to $1.7 million in January, the largest in the history of the program.
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Sale of Used E-books Getting Closer
At a time when many independent booksellers both here and abroad are beginning to gain traction selling Kobo e-books, other retailers are eyeing the secondary market for e-books and other digital content.
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TOC 2013: Digital First Sale and its Discontents
Already a hot topic at the Tools of Change conference, the issue of digital First Sale rights, or the ability to resell “used” e-books and other digital content, received a thorough examination by Bill Rosenblatt, president of digital consulting firm Giant Steps Media, in a presentation called You Bought It, But do You Own It?
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Could This Be the Year for Online Sales Tax?
With the start of the new Congress, a bipartisan coalition showed the love to brick-and-mortar retailers on Valentine’s Day with the reintroduction of a modified e-sales tax fairness law.
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Zola Books To Start Selling Macmillan Titles
Joe Regal, founder of Zola Books, the much-anticipated e-book retailing startup, title recommendation and social media site, announced plans to start selling e-books from Macmillan by late next week.
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DiTech Launches Indian E-bookstore
Mumbai-based DiTech Process Solutions, an end-to-end publishing and content management services company, launched educational e-bookstore StudyeBuddy on February 8 for the Indian market.
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As E-books Grow, So Does Amazon
With e-books’ share of unit sales rising from 14% for the first nine months of 2011 to 22% for the same period in 2012, the biggest winners among retailers were Amazon and dedicated e-bookstores and digital download sites.
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Amazon Poised to Sell Used E-books
A U.S. patent that Amazon Technologies in Reno, Nev., received last week indicates that the mega-retailer has its sights on digital resale, including used e-books.
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B&N Investor Ups Stake; New Nook Windows App Released
In a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, investor Daniel Tisch reported that his stake in Barnes & Noble is now at 8.1%. Separately, B&N announced the introduction of the Nook for Windows 8 app.
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Macmillan to Begin E-book Library Lending Pilot
Macmillan has announced that it will begin its first e-book library lending program by the end of the first quarter. Using the agency model and working with a number of distributors, Macmillan will offer libraries over 1,200 backlist e-books from its Minotaur Books imprint.
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Pearson Nook Investment Completed
Pearson has completed its $89.5 million investment in Nook Media, which gives the publisher a 5% stake in the company. With the investment, first announced late last month, Barnes & Noble now owns a 78.2% stake in Nook Media and Microsoft has a 16.8% share.
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Wiley Signs with RoyaltyShare
John Wiley has signed an agreement with RoyaltyShare to use the company’s Digital Advantage for eBooks program to automate the processing and management of Wiley’s worldwide e-book revenue.
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