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Supadu Extends D2C Reach with De Marque Partnership
The U.K.-based e-commerce platform has teamed with Canadian distributor De Marque to extend its international digital distribution and add instant e-book reading to its direct-to-consumer services, the latest of several deals in the D2C space.
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Bookshop.org Begins E-book Sales in the U.K.
Following the U.S. launch in January, Bookshop.org is now offering an e-book sales platform in the U.K., empowering U.K. independent bookshops to sell digital books.
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Spotify Promotes Audiobooks as Summertime ‘Bangers’
Spotify’s “Read Like You Listen” summer marketing campaign riffs on typical music promotions to encourage people to listen to a audiobooks as they would music.
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Indie Retailers Offer Anti–Amazon Prime Day Promotions
Prompted by Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale, Bookshop.org, Libro.fm, and the American Booksellers Association are offering incentives and launching campaigns to encourage customers to shop with independent retailers July 8–11.
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NetGalley Launches Consumer Marketing Platform, Booktrovert
The Firebrand subsidiary, which offers prepublication digital book galleys to industry pros, has launched Booktrovert.com, a consumer marketing platform offering e-book giveaways, reader activities, promotional campaigns, and book sales.
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Literati Launches E-commerce Platform for Teachers
Literati is launching Literati Classrooms, a new e-commerce platform aimed at preschool and elementary school teachers, which will return 15% of sales on the platform to teachers as credit to buy books for their classrooms.
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Open Road Starts Imprint for Out-of-Print Books
Open Road Integrated Media has launched Re-Discovery Lit, a new imprint that will republish out-of-print and reverted books. The imprint is starting with about 200 titles.
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Spotify Launches Audiobook Sales in Canada
Swedish audio streaming company Spotify has expanded its English-language audiobook service to Canada, offering some 350,000 titles in English and French for purchase.
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Bookshop.org to Take Over Sales for IndieBound.org
IndieBound.org, the ABA's consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, will switch to using Bookshop.org links to handle sales and fulfillment beginning March 1.
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Digital Book World: Startups Are Entering 'A New Age'
DBW's final day looked at a recent study of publishing industry startups and found that innovation takes all forms, from wildly successful ideas that took time to take off, like Audible, to cutting edge innovations, like blockchain book retailing.
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