For many, the new year is a time for new beginnings. A fresh start. A clean state. The same is proving true for digital publishing as 2016 ushers in new ideas, new partnerships, new markets, and, of course, new legal battles. Here’s the latest…
Google Launches E-book Experiment
Google has launched a new digital-only bookstore “for books that cannot be printed”…http://bit.ly/1KZSWZs
Audible Expands into Original Content
Amazon is ramping up its investment in podcasts and other radio-style shows to expand the types of programming it offers via Audible…Audible has recruited well-known comedians, along with radio and podcast producers for the initiative, and job postings suggest a significant global push…http://bloom.bg/1QNHHd5
Indie Authors Can Now Develop an Audiobook via ListenUp Audiobooks
The global audiobook industry is currently worth over two billion dollars and digital is the fastest growing segment. Major publishes have a tremendous amount of infrastructure to create audio editions of their bestselling novels, but indie authors don’t have many alternatives. ListenUp Audiobooks is a new company that is exclusively focusing on indie authors who want to make an audiobook…http://bit.ly/1Qbdt4X
Amazon is Opening a Bookstore in San Diego
Amazon is planning on opening a new bookstore in San Diego. The e-commerce giant is hiring store managers, booksellers and gadget enthusiasts. This will be the second retail location that the Seattle company has launched in the last six months…http://bit.ly/20jAJNs
Amazon’s Other Physical Retail Test: A Mini Bookstore for Kindle ebooks
It only takes up a couple square feet, a small fraction of the size of Amazon’s first real bookstore in Seattle, but the company has been quietly making another foray into physical retail — offering individual ebook gift cards for sale under a pilot program at Bartell Drugs in Washington state…http://bit.ly/1nvz6QZ
