Bookstores report strong growth for ebooks as people are staying home

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Ebook sales growth at major bookstores and subscription services in April. Source: Publishdrive.

Year 2020 may be remembered as a pandemic year, but it may also be remembered as the year when ebooks made a breakthrough to the mass market … Read the story...

EU country Portugal has banned the use of DRM in ebooks in certain cases

Portugal may not be a forerunner of digital media business within the European Union, but Portugal’s lawmakers have taken a significant step towards consumer friendly digital media and ebooks. Portugal has banned the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology … Read the story...

Bonnier takes digital disruption seriously, establishes publishing company for ebooks and audiobooks

Very few (if any) traditional book publishers have given their ebook business the freedom to independently from the mother ship run their operation. Bonnier opens a new publishing company Bookery in April 2017 which specializes in ebooks and audiobooks alone. … Read the story...