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Looking for the Next Goodreads
When Amazon announced in March that it would acquire Goodreads in the second quarter of the year, there was much handwringing, along with tweeting and Facebooking, especially by independent booksellers.
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Online Retailers, E-books Gained in 2012
At Publishers Weekly’s May 8 discussion series on trends in consumer book-buying, held at the offices of Random House in New York City, Carl Kulo, U.S. director of Bowker Market Research, highlighted the major shifts that took place in 2012 in such key areas as sales by format and by channel.
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BookShout Gets $6 Million
BookShout, the social reading and book retail application, has raised $6 million in new funding that it will use to expand its digital book distribution and engagement platform.
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German Court Nixes Selling Used E-books
Weeks after a U.S. court rejected ReDigi’s bid to resell digital files, a German court ruled that digital books can’t be resold by purchasers.
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Sony Partners with iDreamBooks.com, Book Discoverability Site
The Sony Reader e-bookstore is partnering with iDreamBooks.com, a book discoverability site that aggregates book reviews and rates titles much like film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, to offer iDreambooks’ ratings on the retail site.
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O’Reilly to Distribute Elsevier E-books
Today’s distribution deal between O’Reilly Media and Elsevier will expand the depth of e-books available from O’Reilly in computer security and networking.
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Open Road Ramps up Translation Program with Five Deals
Five European publishers have signed with Open Road Integrated Media to have Open Road distribute and market English-language digital editions of their books in English speaking territories.
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More Than a Digital Book World
With e-book and total digital sales posting steady—if generally smaller—increases in 2012, sales of print books held up fairly well across the book trade and at most major houses.
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Floridis Joins Zola; Retailer Plans Expansion Abroad
Zola Books, the new independent retailer unveiled at 2012's BEA, has hired Tad Floridis as director of international business development.
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Indie E-Book Retailer Books On Board Halts E-book Sales
Blaming stiff competition, and the impact of the abrupt switch to the agency model, Bob LiVolsi, owner of the indie e-book retailer BooksonBoard.com, has halted business operations.
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