News: digital

Seeking a publishing utopia

Seven years ago, neuroscientist Kamila Markram and her husband Henry, both feeling frustrated by the publishing processes of the major houses, decided to set up... Read more

Publishers consult lawyers over Kindle Unlimited

Publishers have expressed outrage that their titles were included in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited subscription service against their wishes when it launched in the UK last... Read more

Volans to lead new Faber division

Faber & Faber has created a new division, Faber Press, led by Henry Volans in the role of director, with Volans charged with creating a... Read more

HarperCollins US offers authors e-commerce scheme

HarperCollins in the US is encouraging authors to sell directly through its own platform, offering higher royalties on titles sold through its own site. The... Read more

Authors to receive $1,500 advance on Amazon crowd-source platform

Amazon has released more details on its crowd-sourced publishing platform, which will be open to English-language books in genres including romance and science fiction... Read more

Harlequin makes 15,000 titles available on Scribd

Harlequin has signed a deal with US e-book subscription service Scribd to make more than 15,000 titles available on the programme. The one-year agreement will... Read more

Norton's monster digital exclusive

Author Jeff Norton is publishing his first picture book as a digital exclusive through Me Books, an e-reading app from digital creative agency Made in... Read more

Report: Tesco puts Blinkbox up for sale

Tesco is reportedly looking to sell its digital platform Blinkbox, which includes the e-book service Blinkbox books. The Guardian has reported the supermarket’s new... Read more

Authors Guild 'met with DoJ officials'

The US Authors Guild has met with officials from the Department of Justice to seek a government investigation into allegations that Amazon is violating antitrust... Read more

Shriver condemns "dangerous" Amazon monopoly

Lionel Shriver has expressed her concern over the “dangerous” monopoly Amazon is developing after receiving the BBC Short Story Award last night. Speaking to... Read more

Bookmate launches new subscription reading app

Bookmate, the Russian subscription-social e-reading service, has released a new app tailored for reading books on smartphones and tablets. The app’s features include a... Read more

W&N 'streamlines' for digital age

Weidenfeld & Nicolson is to “streamline its profile for the digital age” by rebranding the Phoenix paperback imprint as Weidenfeld & Nicolson paperbacks.... Read more

Dominic Myers made Europe head of Amazon Publishing

Former Waterstones boss Dominic Myers has become the head of Amazon Publishing in Europe, with a brief to launch new European offices. Myers will... Read more

US indies 'agree new e-book terms with Amazon'

The Perseus Books Group and 400 other independent publishers have reportedly agreed new e-book terms with Amazon in the US.Publishers Weekly has reported... Read more

S&S signs with Mofibo

Simon & Schuster has cut a deal with Danish e-book subscription service Mofibo for its backlist titles. The partnership involves S&S backlist titles from its... Read more