News: digital

Nook pulls out of UK

Nook is pulling out of the UK and transferring its UK customers to Sainsbury's. Read more

'End of the beginning for e-books' says Tamblyn

Kobo c.e.o Michael Tamblyn says the industry is reaching the “end of the beginning for e-books”. Read more

'Missing person' campaign from HarperFiction

HarperFiction is bringing the traditional outdoor poster campaign "to life" this weekend by running an on- and offline marketing campaign for novel Missing, Presumed "mirroring a real-time police search... Read more

Digital reading museum to open in Paris

A digital reading museum is set to open in Paris. Read more

'Slow global e-book growth' hits Kobo targets

Rakuten recorded a 7.8bn yen (£47m) impairment charge for its Kobo division, according to its financial results for the three months to end December 2015. ... Read more

Scribd drops unlimited subscription

US e-book subscription service Scribd is dropping its unlimited e-book subscription offer, and moving to a hybrid model as of next month. Read more

Tickell report commends UK's Open Access progress

The UK has made "substantial progress" towards ensuring Open Access publication of publicly funded research since the Finch Report was published in 2012, according to... Read more

France sees e-book leap

E-book sales seem to have finally taken off in France last year, even though at a more modest rate than the three-digit growth achieved in... Read more

The Bookseller launches indie sales tracker

The Bookseller has launched an independent author e-book sales tracker, inviting authors and small digital publishers whose e-book sales data currently goes unreported to complete... Read more

Nielsen launches e-book tracker

Nielsen has launched an e-book sales reporting service for “top tier publishers” through all channels. Read more

Toppsta partners with World Book Day

Online community Toppsta is partnering with World Book Day this year, providing reviews of the £1 titles in the run-up to the day itself on... Read more

Germany's fixed-price laws extended to e-books

Germany's fixed-price book laws are to be extended to e-books. Read more

Google launches e-book 'experiment'

Google has launched a new digital-only bookstore "for books that cannot be printed". Read more

Faber launches permissions services website

Faber has launched a new website to provide permissions services for organisations seeking to license Faber copyrights and authors. Read more

Bookouture expands, hires Greenwood

Digital publisher Bookouture is expanding its editorial team by hiring Kirsty Greenwood as an associate publisher, promoting Keshini Naidoo as a second associate publisher, and... Read more