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Text to launch $12.95 Australian classics listText Publishing will publish a list of low-price classics similar to Penguin's Popular Penguin series and Random House's $12.95 classics. The list will la...
Nielsen figures show global retreat in print sales
According to global sales figures presented by Nielsen at the Italian ebook event ifBookThen, sales of print books are declining in most of the markets across the world where Nielsen tracks sales figu...
Overdrive reports increase in ebook usage in libraries
In end-year figures for 2011, ebook platform Overdrive has reported triple-digit growth for 2011 'in ebook discovery and online reader visits at libraries and schools' worldwide. Revealing the st...
Quote of the week
'You will not see flat pricing under agency (not if the publisher has half a retail mind). There will be days, weeks or even months when the price will drop, quite considerably in some instances, befo...
US Dept. of Justice investigating ebook industry
The US Justice Department has launched a formal anti-trust investigation into the ebook industry.
BISG US releases ebook ISBN best-practice guidelines
Looking to address the problem of confusion in the marketplace around product identification, the Book Industry Study Group is publishing a Policy Statement that outlines best practices for assignin...
EU opens investigation into ebooks
The European Commission has announced it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether publishers Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Holtzbrinck 'have,...
EU Competition Commission to investigate Apple agency pricing agreements
The European Union (EU) Competition Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into agency pricing agreements for ebooks between Apple and five major international publishers. The commis...
ALS launches ePlatform ebook lending service locally
Library supplier ALS has launched the ePlatform ebook lending service in Australia. Launched locally at the SWITCH public libraries conference in late November, ePlatform offers local content fro...
Finch launches ebook program
Finch Publishing has announced the launch of its ebook program. Marketing and publicity manager Laura Boon told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the publisher's ‘leading thirty titles... ar...
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