Another nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
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Category: Canada
Is a $500 million Wattpad sale imminent?
While Wattpad isn’t currently run as a commercial enterprise the potential, and the global...
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PRH Canada devolves RH and Knopf in move that weakens the argument against the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon & Schuster
The move is not related to the Simon & Schuster buyout, and was initially planned for the...
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Start The Day Global: Bangladesh, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Malaysia and Thailand
Whimsical publishing stories from around the world. Today five post excerpts from Thailand,...
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Canada’s De Marque raises $5 million as a 35% lockdown ebook boom becomes a 25%-30% sustained increase
It’s not clear if Blouin’s “notably the United States” is a reference simply to the size of the US...
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“The time is right for subscription.” Kobo launches unlimited digital books streaming service in Canada
Rakuten Kobo has been successfully streaming digital books through its Kobo Plus subscription...
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Canada’s publishers face deluge of returns as bookstores re-open after eight weeks lockdown and a 63% drop in sales
Canada’s book publishing trade association Booknet is warning that as bookstores open their doors...
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Kobo Plus subscription service prepares launches in France and Canada
Hat tip to The Digital Reader for kicking off this story. Yesterday Nate Hoffelder ran an item...
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Wattpad, “the world’s leading platform for writers”, plans second Canada HQ in Halifax
With its headquarters in Toronto and offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai,...
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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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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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De Marque acquires Feedbook assets including the Feedbook digital books catalogue for $0.25 million, taking De Marque to 1.4 million titles
Paying just 230,000 euros (US$ 254,000) for the assets of the collapsed ebook store Feedbooks, the...
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