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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Category: Canada
“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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Amazon launches full language support for Traditional Chinese outside China, but is the 2007 Bezos vision of “every book ever printed, in any language, available in less than 60 seconds” still on the agenda?
It was November 2014 when Amazon last launched a new Kindle store, almost seven years to the day...
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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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StreetLib partners with Singapore-based STARY's Dreame and FicFun mobile reading apps
Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has partnered...
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African Publishing – The $5 Billion Digital Opportunity as Nigeria becomes 7th largest country by online population
At the IPA Africa Seminar in Lagos in 2018 it was reported that the African book market was worth...
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