Category: Ebooks
Belgium becomes 21st market for Sweden’s Storytel. Thailand still to come this year
Storytel Belgium launches with 250,000 titles, but only a handful are in Dutch, and even fewer in...
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Germany’s Bookwire acquires readbox in a “value-generating collaboration”
“’Value-generating collaborations’ are the defining keywords of our time”...
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It’s been 6 years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store. Today Amazon launches in Sweden – without a Kindle store
Amazon: “Our goal is to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle...
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In France in 2019 digital accounted for just 8.7% of the book market
There’s no disputing that, with internet penetration at 92%, amounting to 60 million people...
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Bookwire: ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts do not cannibalise, but act in a “mutually reinforcing manner”
Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts have become mainstream. Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts are...
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Philippines Senator calls for digitisation of textbooks to ensure students do not have to share books
Will a proposed amendment to the Filipino book laws be enough to kick-start digitisation of the...
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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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“Print AND digital, not print OR digital.” – Follett, Baker & Taylor
Ebooks and digital solutions are an ‘and’ to the print book. There are a number of schools,...
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Belgium joins Thailand for Storytel 2020 launch, lining up France, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland among many as possible candidates to join Israel and Indonesia in 2021-3
Storytel Belgium will be run from the Netherlands, setting the scene for Austria, Luxembourg and...
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Modelling the Next New Normal: “ReBoot: Books, Business and Reading” counts down to Oct. 13 Conference with thematic workshops starting Sept. 17
While many in the publishing industry are still struggling to come to terms with the current...
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Mapping the New Normal: As Big Bad Wolf counts down its 20 million book online debut in Singapore publishers need to look beyond the remaindered titles and grasp the opportunity
English-language titles can be in huge demand if prices are appropriate to local market...
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“I absolutely love Nook, and I think my predecessors had fallen out of love with it. I’m a champion of digital books and digital book retailing” – Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt
Daunt continued selling epub ebooks in the Waterstone’s ebook store while simultaneously inviting...
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