Insight Venture Partners, OverDrive’s majority shareholder since 2010, has reached a $410 million dollar deal with Rakuten, a Japan-based digital content company, to purchase OverDrive, the main distributor that libraries use… Read more »

Ah, elephant ivory and whale meat: two great tastes that taste great to goddamned monsters. According to a report issued by the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency along with the Humane… Read more »

In February, the Commissioner of Competition in Canada told Kobo it had forty days to abandon the agency model. Those forty days were supposed to expire on Wednesday… but on… Read more »

By now the ebook lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice against Apple over the Agency model of pricing has begun to blur at its edges into a Mandelbrotian haze… Read more »

Bella Andre is the bestselling author of the Sullivan series, perhaps the most obsessively thorough romance series out there at the moment, since it follows every single member of the… Read more »

The Kobo news is here: on March 20, Sony is shutting down its reader store in the U.S. and Canada. The Kobo platform will take its place, and the Kobo… Read more »

Even with 18 million users and 4 million e-book titles, Kobo feels like the underdog of the ebook world. At the end of January, Kobo and Amazon tied for “online… Read more »

Japan will start collecting taxes for online sales of foreign content in 2015. That means all ebooks, music, apps, and whatever else you might be downloading online. Daiwa Institute of… Read more »

Here’s the thing about ereaders: they are a technology that depends on their exclusive status. They’re really not for everybody, you know? It’s only the young and strong and forward-thinking… Read more »

Two weeks ago, a number of prominent retailers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo pulled a number of titles after the pornographic British newspaper the Daily Mail exploded in outrage… Read more »