Great news for Harry Potter fans that have been anxiously waiting for the digital editions of the treasured series by J.K. Rowling.  All seven Harry Potter titles are now available for purchase in a variety of ebook formats at Pottermore.

That’s right.  Harry Potter ebooks are available at “Pottermore” and not at Amazon or Barnes & Noble. [Read more…]

If you’ve ever checked out an ebook from a library it’s most likely been through a site powered by OverDrive.  They are the leading distributor of ebooks, audio books, and digital content to public libraries.  OverDrive provides the ebook lending platform for the vast majority of libraries that offer ebooks to their patrons. [Read more…]

Apple and five of the “big six” book publishers just received a shot across the bow from the U.S. Justice Department.  The DOJ claims that Apple and the publishers worked together to increase the prices of ebooks.  The Wall Street Journal reported that the DOJ warned that they would sue Apple and the five publishers if a settlement could not be reached. [Read more…]

It looks like the 3M Cloud Library has made the excecutives over at OverDrive a little nervous.  Yesterday, OverDrive announced that they had acquired the Australian ebook company, Booki.sh.

Booki.sh is a cloud-based platform for distributing, selling, and reading ebooks in Australia.  In other words, they do almost exactly the same thing as 3M’s Cloud Library does. [Read more…]

Amazon and one of the largest independent books publishers, IPG, are currently battling to the death over ebook pricing.  In a nutshell, Amazon wants ebook prices to be much lower.  IPG wants ebook prices to be just a little less than print books. [Read more…]