eBook revenues were up 18.2% in August 2020 13 Oct 2020 (Good E-Reader)
US House subcommittee proposes antitrust updates: Ebook interoperability boost? 07 Oct 2020 (TeleRead)
Publishers Worry as Ebooks Fly off Libraries’ Virtual Shelves 01 Oct 2020 (WIRED)
Open letter calls for ‘investigation of academic publishing industry’ 30 Sep 2020 (Research Information)
UK Libraries have lent out 3.5 million ebooks during pandemic 28 Sep 2020 (Good E-Reader)
Playster has gone bankrupt 11 Sep 2020 (Good E-Reader)
Publishers Dismayed By 25% Increase in eBook Revenues in July 2020 10 September 2020 (The Digital Reader)
Arrests in August led to a dramatic decline in pirated online content 4 September 2020 (Torrent Freak) More than a week has passed since a US Government enforcement action hit the piracy scene hard. The release group SPARKS was the main target but, directly and indirectly, many other pirate groups were affected as well.
Bloomsbury shifts assets to the cloud 4 September 2020 (Diginomica) Bloomsbury has migrated digital assets relating to its academic and professional titles to a cloud-based DAM platform from Cloudinary. In the four months to the end of June 2020, academic and professional book sales rose by 4% to £11.8m. Digital books and resources, meanwhile, accounted for almost half that revenue, up from 30% for the year to February.
EdTech Sharks Set to Snap Up Minnows 2 September 2020 (Hechinger Report) Analysts and industry insiders expect a wave of acquisitions as already-dominant brands like Cengage seek to corner even more of the market by snatching up smaller players that provide services they don’t. “We’re seeing people with capital be opportunistic, who say this is the time to buy a company in a different subject area to round out their portfolio.”
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