After my post regarding Amazon's crackdown on 'interactive' e-books, I started asking for a clarification of just what this means. Is any form of URL linking permitted inside an e-book? How, exactly, is Amazon defining...

Apparently it took the advent of e-books to make people fully aware of just how much they loved paper books. The latest evidence of this is the proliferation of perfumes and...

Amazon appears to be offering another limited-time offer bundling deal for Kindle fans and bibliophiles. This time it's a free book (paper variety) with your new Kindle Paperwhite. As you can see...

Many, myself included, have embraced scholarly open access publishing as an antidote to the ills and exploitative practices of mainstream academic, scientific, and scholarly publishing. However, not all scholarly open access...

One of those things you might have expected when tablets get cheap is coming to pass: throwing them in as free bonus items when you sign up for something else. The...

My colleague Chris was asking just a few days ago why people are not 'innovating' in e-books these days. Well, here's why: Amazon doesn't want us to. They seem to be...

It appears that 2016 is going to be the year of copyright reform—or at least, more of it than we’ve had in recent years. The latest section of the copyright code...

Rakuten, parent company of Kobo and Overdrive, is shuttering its European retail site Rakuten.co.uk as of the end of August, according to reports in TechCrunch and Engadget. Formerly known as Play.com,...

On BookRiot, Hannah Engler delves 125 years into the past to find an uncannily prescient publishing satire. The book in question is New Grub Street, by George Gissing, which follows a...

Why aren’t Apple and Google selling more e-books? Gareth Cuddy, founder and CEO of digital publishing startup Vearsa, ponders this question on Vearsa’s blog. (We’ve covered Cuddy’s innovation efforts in the...