Bookshop will start selling ebooks, plus start publishing new books
Bookshop, launched in 2020 as a virtuous alternative to Amazon, has until now sold primarily print editions.
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Draft2Digital strikes deal with Digital Public Library of America
Draft2Digital, the popular ebook distributor in the US for independent authors, just announced a distribution deal with DPLA.
Association of American Publishers reports 2022 results
According to the AAP, which consists of traditional publishers in various sectors, consumer sales dropped 6.2 percent in 2022 against 2021.
Amazon Trend Report: Second-Chance Romance
Trends and takeaways in a popular romance subcategory.
Digital book lending grows 10 percent in 2022
OverDrive, the leading distributor of digital books to libraries, recently announced that digital lending increased 10 percent over 2021.
Amazon Trend Report: Teen & YA
Trends and takeaways from the teen/YA market.
FBI seizes one of the largest sites for pirated work
The site is known as Z-Library, and it was especially popular among TikTok users.
Self-Publishing Sales Collectively Represent a Whole Other Penguin Random House
Executives from Wattpad Webtoon Studios and Rakuten Kobo discuss the hard-to-measure but growing audience for independently published ebooks and digital serializations.
Ingram invests in NFTs
Book wholesaler and distributor Ingram has invested in the NFT ebook company Book.io.
A big victory for authors: Amazon modifies ebook returns policy
Earlier this year, a viral TikTok post sparked an online petition by authors demanding that Amazon change its returns policy.