After failing to launch as promised last October, Sony has opened their Reader Store in the UK, offering approximately 100,000 titles. Still not launched, and probably not coming until summer–as has been known to some for months now–is Nook‘s international expansion, and its partnership with the UK’s Waterstones in particular. The Bookseller obtained Nook’s proposed contract with UK publishers, which asks for worldwide distribution rights. Kobo, which has been talking about launching a self-publishing platform of their own since late last year with few details, said at LBF that the new service will debut some time “this quarter,” before the […]
