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 »
The long-delayed Bookish, a website backed by Hachette, Penguin and Simon & Schuster and designed to promote book discovery and sell books, launched Monday night and is designed to be a… Read more »
Barnes & Noble is shutting down Fictionwise, the pioneering 12-year-old digital bookstore that it bought for $15.7 million in 2009. The company cited “a significant decrease in demand for many of… Read more »
With Pottermore.com now using watermarking instead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder. Now the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) hopes to create an… Read more »