Traditional Sales

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

Ganxy, founded in 2009 by Joshua Cohen and Aleks Jakulin to help music and then book publishers sell their content online, is going out of business.

Hummingbird Digital Media has reached a non-exclusive marketing partnership with the ABA under which ABA members will have another option to sell e-books from their websites.

International e-book retailer Rakuten Kobo has a long history of partnering with retailers to deliver e-books, but Kobo its new partnership with Walmart is on a whole different level.

Walmart has partnered with Rakuten, the Japanese internet services and e-commerce company, to bring its Kobo e-readers and e-books to the chain's U.S. stores.

After a stealthy opening in April, the company's e-bookstore is steadily adding more titles to its offerings.

The promotional site that lets consumers pay what they wish for bundles of e-book content reports a nearly $5 million increase in sales since last year—and a boost in charity donations to boot.

A look at why Amazon decided to go through with its purchase of Whole Foods shows that stock keeping units might be the answer.

Publishing discovered the utility of scannable bar codes early. Just ask the 13-digit ISBN.

The much-ballyhooed fall in sales of traditionally published e-books in 2016 was balanced by an expanded share of book sales for e-tailers.