Scribd is adding about 30,000 digital audiobooks to its $8.99/month ebook subscription service, helping its offering to stand out from competitors Oyster and Kindle Unlimited. Read more »
HarperCollins is paying authors more when they sell their print, e- and audiobooks directly through its website. It’s a step in the right direction, even if it’s not the standard higher… Read more »
HarperCollins has begun selling some ebooks directly, starting with titles by C.S. Lewis. These are DRM-protected EPUB files, so if you want a Kindle version you’ll have to buy through Amazon… Read more »
Random House has acquired teen reading and writing community Figment. Figment had previously acquired Inkpop, a similar site from HarperCollins. Read more »
Big-5 publisher Macmillan, which had previously only made 1,200 ebooks available to libraries for lending, is now opening up its entire backlist of about 11,000 titles. Read more »
Penguin is making its ebooks available through Overdrive, the largest digital library distributor in the U.S., once again. Kindle users will have to side-load the ebooks to their devices; they won’t… Read more »
I was skeptical that we’d ever see a Netflix for ebooks. Oyster’s launch on Thursday proved me wrong: It offers books that you’ve actually heard of, in a very well-designed app,… Read more »
Consumers who bought eligible ebooks between 2010 and 2012 are likely to receive up to $3.06 per book, according to updated information released by the states’ Attorneys General Friday. Here’s what you can expect. Read more »