The Good e-Reader Best e-Reader List for 2025
30 November 2025 (Good E-Reader)
Amazon Kindle Colorsoft comes up tops, followed by Onyx Boox Palma.
How Scribd Achieved $54 Million in Recurring Revenue
30 November 2025 (Latka)
A Deep Dive into subscription-based reading pioneer Tripp Adler’s Growth Strategy.
Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age – or are they more precious than ever?
26 November 2025 (The Conversation)
Ebooks have been popular for decades and audiobooks are increasingly so. But physical books are still the decided favourite: a survey of ..
New Research on Screens, Learning, and the Role of Paper
25 November 2025 (Printing Impressions – A printing industry body!)
“There’s a growing recognition that paper textbooks and print materials provide structure, reliability, and cognitive advantages that many digital tools still struggle to match.”
Barnes & Noble Education Bets On Digital To Revive Growth
23 November 2025 (finimize)
Its edge comes from blending physical and digital access, holding exclusive partnerships with campuses, and striking courseware deals. But big challenges remain: the steady migration from print to digital content, fierce competition online, and the uncertain financial health of college partners all still weigh on the story.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay $3.2 million over manga piracy
20 November 2025 (The Japan Times)
Cloudflare provided a server for “two massive manga piracy sites that distribute over 4,000 manga titles without permission and rack up 300 million views a month,” the publishers said.
ElevenLabs Launches AI Narration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland’s Voice
22 November 2025 (Blockchain News)
The production was developed in ElevenLabs Studio and is now available via the ElevenReader platform, as part of the Iconic Voices collection.
Oxford University Press Digital Performance Stats
21 November 2025 (The Bookseller)
OUP’s annual report says 76% of Academic sales came from digital, the Oxford Academic platform logged a record 187 million visits last year, while digital books content hosted on the platform increased in usage by 6%.
Boox Palma 2 Pro review: one step forward, one step back
21 November 2025 (The Verge)
Year after year, model after model, the Boox Palma gets a little closer to the device of my dreams. Onyx, the company that makes it, found a formula that remains both simple and delightful
OverDrive Sues OpenAI Over Sora App
20 November 2025 (Publishers Weekly)
The complaint alleges that OpenAI intentionally gave the recently launched app the same name as OverDrive’s Sora, as well as “using a confusingly similar icon, color palette, and visual identity.” Subscription Required
Authors believe AI will ‘entirely replace’ their work, according to University of Cambridge research
20 November 2025 (The Bookseller)
51% of published novelists in the UK believe AI is likely to end up replacing their work, says a new survey of 258 authors from the University of Cambridge. Subscription Required
Interview with Gauthier van Malderen, CEO of Perlego
20 November 2025 (BDO UK)
Perlego has been described as Spotify for textbooks … “We’re attracting people away from piracy and second-hand markets with a beautiful, convenient platform.”
More ebook industry news (back to 2017)
![E-books, downloaded music and other digital products aren’t covered by Australian consumer law. [Shutterstock]](https://i0.wp.com/about.ebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/file-20180220-116365-1tkqbl91.jpg?fit=696%2C432&ssl=1 "Australia’s consumer laws still don’t cover ebooks")
