Last week I reported on the astonishing and inexplicable news that Amazon’s UK operation received more money in government grants than it paid in tax. Since those reports came in,… Read more »

Tim Waterstone, founder of the eponymous UK bookshop chain Waterstones, is launching Read Petite, a digital book service that will publish both new and old short fiction and non-fiction and eventually long-form journalism.… Read more »

This spring, ICANN, the body that determines which domain names can be used on the Internet and which are out of bounds—last year they finally agreed to the domain name… Read more »

The above graph shows a possible effect of Amazon’s “Price Check” app: It charts the share price of Best Buy, which in March announced it was closing 50 of its… Read more »

Most avid readers would readily admit to having an obsessive side. A tech startup, Small Demons, aims to appeal to, nay manipulate, those literary obsessions, and the idea behind it… 1 / Read more »

In Argentina, a new and bizarre piece of red tape means that imported books and magazines are being held at customs at Ezeiza airport, some 25 miles outside of Buenos… 1 / Read more »

An indie publisher has added his voice to the growing number of public opponents of Amazon.  In his article ‘Amazon’s Assault on Intellectual Freedom’, Bryce Milligan of Wings Press in… Read more »

We’ve noted many times that Google’s commitment to selling ebooks has been shaky at best. After launching its ebookstore with great ballyhoo, it then walked away from the program just… 2 / Read more »

In one of the most transparent fibs of the year, and amidst a wash of bad publicity, Google announced yesterday that it hadn’t meant to kick numerous indie booksellers out… Read more »

Late last week came the news that Google was closing out an undisclosed number of its eBookstore affiliate partners. This is perhaps the beginning of the final chapter in the long… Read more »