Google is quietly giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales. And why it’s so hard (or impossible) to buy e-books and audiobooks in smartphone apps.

As it marks its fifth anniversary, Bookshop.org has launched a new salvo in its battle against Amazon — a new e-book platform that will enable independent bookstores to sell e-books for the first time ...

The bookseller is applying its sales model—where online purchases support indie bookstores—to digital books. It has also released a mobile app for shopping and reading ebooks.

Amazon accounts for more than 80% of all online book sales, according to market research firm IBISWorld. Not to mention it owns Kindle, a wildly popular format for e-reading. Bookshop.org is ready ...

If you don't own a Kindle you can't really get e-books from Amazon for your e-reader, ... Amazon Book Sale starts now — 9 deals I'd grab on Kindles, tablets and more; ...

Compare the differences between e-books and print books and decide where you stand on the print versus digital debate. ... with approximately $3.5 billion and $3.2 billion in sales in 2024, ...

Filling up your new e-reader with books to take on vacation can get pricey. Here are eight websites that you can find new and old eBooks free of charge.

Total online sales across print, e-book, and digital audiobook formats rose 5.6% in 2022, to $12.13 billion, according to Bookstat. The service collects online sales data in real time from Amazon ...

Internet Archive. The Internet Archive is home to millions of books, movies, TV shows, music, and other content. On its virtual bookshelves, you’ll find more than 20 million downloadable ebooks ...

That makes the feisty public library the main challenger to Amazon, which almost completely monopolizes private sales of e-books and sold 487,000 in 2020. But there is a giant problem.