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Update on Amazon E-book Borrowing
The monthly pool for borrowed e-books In Amazon's KDP Select program grew to $1.7 million in January, the largest in the history of the program.
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Sale of Used E-books Getting Closer
At a time when many independent booksellers both here and abroad are beginning to gain traction selling Kobo e-books, other retailers are eyeing the secondary market for e-books and other digital content.
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TOC 2013: Digital First Sale and its Discontents
Already a hot topic at the Tools of Change conference, the issue of digital First Sale rights, or the ability to resell “used” e-books and other digital content, received a thorough examination by Bill Rosenblatt, president of digital consulting firm Giant Steps Media, in a presentation called You Bought It, But do You Own It?
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Could This Be the Year for Online Sales Tax?
With the start of the new Congress, a bipartisan coalition showed the love to brick-and-mortar retailers on Valentine’s Day with the reintroduction of a modified e-sales tax fairness law.
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Zola Books To Start Selling Macmillan Titles
Joe Regal, founder of Zola Books, the much-anticipated e-book retailing startup, title recommendation and social media site, announced plans to start selling e-books from Macmillan by late next week.
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DiTech Launches Indian E-bookstore
Mumbai-based DiTech Process Solutions, an end-to-end publishing and content management services company, launched educational e-bookstore StudyeBuddy on February 8 for the Indian market.
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As E-books Grow, So Does Amazon
With e-books’ share of unit sales rising from 14% for the first nine months of 2011 to 22% for the same period in 2012, the biggest winners among retailers were Amazon and dedicated e-bookstores and digital download sites.
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Amazon Poised to Sell Used E-books
A U.S. patent that Amazon Technologies in Reno, Nev., received last week indicates that the mega-retailer has its sights on digital resale, including used e-books.
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B&N Investor Ups Stake; New Nook Windows App Released
In a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, investor Daniel Tisch reported that his stake in Barnes & Noble is now at 8.1%. Separately, B&N announced the introduction of the Nook for Windows 8 app.
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Macmillan to Begin E-book Library Lending Pilot
Macmillan has announced that it will begin its first e-book library lending program by the end of the first quarter. Using the agency model and working with a number of distributors, Macmillan will offer libraries over 1,200 backlist e-books from its Minotaur Books imprint.
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Pearson Nook Investment Completed
Pearson has completed its $89.5 million investment in Nook Media, which gives the publisher a 5% stake in the company. With the investment, first announced late last month, Barnes & Noble now owns a 78.2% stake in Nook Media and Microsoft has a 16.8% share.
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Wiley Signs with RoyaltyShare
John Wiley has signed an agreement with RoyaltyShare to use the company’s Digital Advantage for eBooks program to automate the processing and management of Wiley’s worldwide e-book revenue.
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TheWriteDeal Opens e-Book Store
Year-old e-book publisher and distributor TheWriteDeal launched its e-Leaf Store for e-content this week. Digital content is available in both English and Spanish.
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ReaderLink Offers txtr’s E-book Solution in U.S.
Just before Christmas, ReaderLink signed an agreement with Berlin-based txtr to be the exclusive partner of its e-book solution in the U.S. to its large retail clients and to indies.
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E-book Reading Rises, Print Reading Dips
The percentage of adult Americans who read a book this fall fell to 75% from 78% a year ago, according to new survey findings by the Pew Research Center released December 27. The survey of Americans age 16 and older found that 23% of people in the age bracket read e-books in the previous 12 months, up from 16% a year ago, while the percentage who read print books fell to 67% from 72%.
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Baen E-books Now Available Via Amazon Kindle Store
Baen Books, an independent e-book retailer and publisher specializing in science-fiction and fantasy, will make its e-book list available through Amazon’s Kindle store beginning sometime after mid-December 2012
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Macmillan Allowing Limited E-book Discounting
While it continues to fight the Department of Justice’s e-book price-fixing charges in court, Macmillan has quietly started offering retailers some flexibility to discount certain titles. In recent months, Macmillan began to allow their agents to discount e-books that are priced at $13.99 and above by up to 10% of the digital list price on a title by title basis.
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Retailers Now Offering Agency 2
In the wake of the Department of Justice e-book price-fixing settlement, retailers have entered into new e-book contracts with the settling publishers—HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster—agreements some retailers call “Agency 2.”
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