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Open Road Integrated Media has launched Re-Discovery Lit, a new imprint that will republish out-of-print and reverted books. The imprint is starting with about 200 titles.

Swedish audio streaming company Spotify has expanded its English-language audiobook service to Canada, offering some 350,000 titles in English and French for purchase.

IndieBound.org, the ABA's consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, will switch to using Bookshop.org links to handle sales and fulfillment beginning March 1.

DBW's final day looked at a recent study of publishing industry startups and found that innovation takes all forms, from wildly successful ideas that took time to take off, like Audible, to cutting edge innovations, like blockchain book retailing.

According to multiple presenters at the Digital Book World conference, ChatGPT has potential to remake the way people write and streamline production and editing, while AI voice replication promises affordable audiobook adaptations.

John Sandford’s two main series leads, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers, team up for his latest thriller, 'Ocean Prey,' the #1 book on Apple Books store's bestseller list.

The Authors Guild and other writer organizations are gathering signatures on a letter protesting a policy by Audible that enables Audible Premium Plus customers to exchange audiobooks they have purchased within 365 days and deducts those returns and exchanges from authors’ accounts.

More than 120 authors have come together to fund BingeBooks, an online community and book discovery site that launched November 18.

Founded in 1993 by Stanley and Betty Greenfield as Dial-a-Book, the company produced nearly 1 million book excerpts that are used by retailers and libraries.

Smashwords Presales will allow authors and publishers to design programs that will let readers buy an e-book before its public on-sale date.