The Boox Palma 2 Pro is the Kindle killer
23 February 2026 (makeuseof.com)
It fits a full e-reader into a smartphone form that’s compact and fits into your pocket. The new model is only 175 grams, making it effortless to hold for long reading sessions or slip into a bag for reading on the go.
Ingram Launches New Digital Catalog, DRC, and Ordering Platform
23 February 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
The platform is intended as a cost-effective competitor to Above the Treeline’s Edelweiss and NetGalley.
If you own the Kindle ebook, you can get the Audible version at a discount
23 February 2026 (Gadget Guy)
“Immersion reading” is being added to the Audible app, joining the existing functionality on Kindle devices. Enabled via a ‘Read & Listen’ tab within the app, it highlights the text of an ebook while the audiobook plays.
Audible Now Lets You Read Along With Your Kindle Books
18 February 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
Audible has added its new Read & Listen feature, which allows users to to follow audiobook narration with synchronized, word-by-word highlighted text, provided they own the Kindle e-book.
Dutch streaming platform pays author only 8.5 cents per audiobook listen
18 February 2026 (NL Times)
For context, authors typically earn around 10 percent of the cover price for the first 4,000 copies of a physical book, equating to roughly 2 euros per book, while e-books often provide a 25 percent share of net proceeds.
Anna’s Archive rolls out the red carpet for robots – and asks them to “persuade” their humans to make donations
18 February 2026 (Complete Music Update)
Part of its unsettlingly chirpy pitch to the robots is a polite ask for any roving AI that comes across the page to consider the fact that it has “likely been trained in part on our data” and to make a donation. Or, if the robot in question is not equipped with the means to pay directly, to use their powers of “human persuasion” to talk an obliging meat puppet into doing it for them.
Growing signs of digital fatigue emerge from Digital Consumer Trends survey
17 February 2026 (Business Plus)
17% of respondents stopped reading e-books on digital devices in the past year.
ElevenLabs Summit: An Audiobook Company That Isn’t About Audiobooks
17 February 2026 (Publishing Perspectives)
Its recent London summit made clear that audiobooks are just one vertical among many for a company now valued at $11 billion. “The average UK resident spends 10 hours on hold each year.” That gap represents one of the largest immediate commercial opportunities in applied artificial intelligence.
Sweden: Spotify adds 1m homes to Swedish audiobook markets
17 February 2026 (Advanced Television)
In total, more than half of Swedish households now have access to audiobooks through a subscription reports Mediavision.
The Onyx Boox Note Air 5 C has perfected the recipe for the ideal E Ink tablet
16 February 2026 (MSN)
Onyx Boox tablets are what Amazon’s Kindle e-readers could only dream of being. Equipped with the Google Play Store, native OCR, stylus support, and a wide range of features found in full-fledged Android tablets, Boox’s E Ink devices are spectacular.
German Social Reading Investment
16 February 2026 (Borsenblatt, via Carlo Carrenho at Publishing Perspectives)
Frankfurt-based social reading app READO—now counting more than 500,000 active users—has secured a seven-figure funding round, notes Börsenblatt. Are you ready to abandon Facebook and move your bookshelf to READO?
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