It’s been ten years since Amazon’s Kindle introduced e-books as a major component of the publishing market, and four-ish years since Hachette and Simon & Schuster successfully negotiated with Amazon… Read more »

A few weeks back, we wrote about how it’s really no surprise that Amazon doesn’t seem to care how its activities in Japan are regularly violating the nation’s “saihan seido” policy, which… Read more »

The secret to getting rich in the bookselling business is to sell lots of books. Big house publishing and most bookstores rely on gargantuan sales from a handful of tentpole… Read more »

Back in May, we reported that Waterstones would stop selling e-books directly from 14th July and would instead be partnering with Kobo. Only two months later and (rather recent) history… Read more »

From 14th June, Waterstones, the UK’s largest book retailer, will no longer be selling e-books directly and will instead be partnering with Kobo. Customers will receive emails explaining how to… Read more »

Last summer, we reported on the New York City Department of Education’s proposal to employ Amazon’s services in building a massive, centralized ebook store for their entire network of schools… Read more »

If you still need proof that ebooks are the unfortunate future of reading, then look no further than the U.S. Constitution. About two years ago, this aging document packed up… Read more »

Sony is slipping out of the ereading market. Readers in the UK, Germany, Austria, and Australia will find their Sony accounts switching over to the Kobo bookstore on June 16.… Read more »

Yesterday, Amazon’s winning streak continued. As part of an antitrust settlement, Amazon customers who bought books from Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin were given a refund of $3.17 per New York… Read more »

According to accounts filed by Amazon in the US, Amazon UK’s sales growth slowed in 2013. Although UK sales grew by 12.6% to £4.5bn last year, this marked a major… Read more »