The Big April eBook News Roundup

by on May 1, 2012 in eBook News

Extra! Extra! April was a big month in the world of eBooks, eReaders, and digital publishing. Here are a handful of headlines. Click the links to read more details on each story.

1. Barnes & Noble and Microsoft ink a $300 million deal. The Nook digital bookstore will be bundled with Windows 8.

2. Barnes & Noble expands its foreign language eBook selection, adding Russian, Afrikaans, Urdu, and more.

3. Study reveals which cities buy the most Kindles per capita, and it ain’t the ones you’d think.

4. The “Agency Model” comes under attack, as the Department of Justice goes after Apple, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster for price-fixing.

Did we miss anything major? Let us know in the comments section below.

Chris Robley

About Chris Robley

Chris Robley has written 384 posts in this blog.

splits his time between the Portlands Oregon and Maine, always longing for the other. He plays music on the West Coast and writes poems on the East. His music has been praised by NPR, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and others. Skyscraper Magazine said he is “one of the best short-story musicians to come along in quite some time.” Robley’s poetry is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, RHINO, Pacifica Literary Review, and The Fine Line.

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