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Writers Groups Protest Audible Exchange Policy
The Authors Guild and other writer organizations are gathering signatures on a letter protesting a policy by Audible that enables Audible Premium Plus customers to exchange audiobooks they have purchased within 365 days and deducts those returns and exchanges from authors’ accounts.
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Author-Funded BingeBooks Site Launches
More than 120 authors have come together to fund BingeBooks, an online community and book discovery site that launched November 18.
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Firebrand to Close Preview-a-Book Service
Founded in 1993 by Stanley and Betty Greenfield as Dial-a-Book, the company produced nearly 1 million book excerpts that are used by retailers and libraries.
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Smashwords Launches Presales Option
Smashwords Presales will allow authors and publishers to design programs that will let readers buy an e-book before its public on-sale date.
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Online Distribution Platform Ganxy to Close
Ganxy, founded in 2009 by Joshua Cohen and Aleks Jakulin to help music and then book publishers sell their content online, is going out of business.
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Hummingbird Digital Media in E-book Deal with ABA
Hummingbird Digital Media has reached a non-exclusive marketing partnership with the ABA under which ABA members will have another option to sell e-books from their websites.
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Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn Talks Walmart and E-books
International e-book retailer Rakuten Kobo has a long history of partnering with retailers to deliver e-books, but Kobo its new partnership with Walmart is on a whole different level.
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New Walmart Partnership Brings Retailer Into the E-Book Game
Walmart has partnered with Rakuten, the Japanese internet services and e-commerce company, to bring its Kobo e-readers and e-books to the chain's U.S. stores.
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Microsoft Quietly Rolls Out Its E-bookstore
After a stealthy opening in April, the company's e-bookstore is steadily adding more titles to its offerings.
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At Humble Bundle, Some Growth to Brag About
The promotional site that lets consumers pay what they wish for bundles of e-book content reports a nearly $5 million increase in sales since last year—and a boost in charity donations to boot.
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