Amazon launches the Kindle Reading Fund to expand digital reading around the world Amazon today announced a new program called the Kindle Reading Fund which is aimed at making digital books more easily available worldwide. The Fund will..

The Best Fonts for Ebook Readers, According to Book and Typeface Designers Picking the right font for your Kindle or Nook can enhance your reading experience. Some fonts are easy on the eyes, some have a ton of personality, and some tell stories of their own. Here are some fonts the experts suggest for your devices.

Scott Pilgrim Publisher Oni Press Debuts New Line of Sex Ed and Erotic Comics Lots of comic books are about sex, but they usually only frame desire and fulfillment as subtext. That will change soon, because publisher Oni Press just announced a new line of books all about getting it on. First out the gate will be collection of Read more ... Erika Moen and Matt Nolan’s Oh Joy Sex Toy webcomi...

Harry Potter Books Head To Kindle And Nook After Pottermore Suffers Cruciatus Curse Whether you side with Hufflepuff or Slytherin, it sucked that you could only get Harry Potter ebooks from a special service called Pottermore... until now. The company has released these books for $9 on the Kindle and Nook and for a very interesting Read more ... reason: the goblins at Gringotts realized Pottermore didn't have much money left. Pottermore launched in 2012 as a digital home for all things Potter. Interestingly, its biggest parter was Sony, then quite active in the reader space. As The Digital Reader points out, the company licensed the branded, offered a Harry Potter-themed area in Playstation Home and gave away free Harry Potter ebooks with the Sony Reader. Old Drago Malfoy must have gotten a Confundus Charm brewing over there because after a while Sony realized that it was hopeless to stem the tide of bigger ereaders and content plays. Sales dropped 352% in March 2015 from £24.8 ...

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Harry Potter Enhanced Books Come To iBooks With Exclusive Animations And Author Notes If you love Harry Potter as much as I do, today's news will be yet another opportunity to read the seven books all over again. For the first time, Apple is now selling the Harry Potter books directly in the iBooks Store. In addition to that, Apple ha Read more ... s worked with J.K. Rowling’s team to produce enhanced editions -- you can expect new animated illustrations and exclusive author notes, custom typefaces and drop caps. As a reminder, the Harry Potter e-books were only available in the Pottermore Shop until today. You could buy the books for $8.99 each and then send your copy to your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Nook, Kobo and more. Pottermore sells the Harry Potter e-books in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese. The English edition costs $8.99 per book. With today's new editions, the books are available as a direct purchase in the iBooks Store in ...

YC-Backed Booktrope Rethinks Book Publishing If you're a writer, you've probably heard horror stories about the publishing industry — books that are rejected by publisher after publisher, books that..

Amazon Begins Publishing Reader-nominated Books Amazon has begun accepting pre-orders for the first 10 titles discovered through Kindle Scout, the company's platform that allows readers to vote for books it should publish under its digital banner Kindle Press.

The First Books From Amazon’s Crowdsourced Publishing Platform Arrive March 3 Amazon has been using reader feedback to find and publish new titles via Kindle Press, using the Kindle Scout program it introduced back in October of last..

Amazon’s Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books If you've been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting, Amazon has a new option for..