Kobo has had a Dutch ebookstore since early 2012, launched in cooperation with local retailer Libris Blz, and now they have partnered with Bol.com, “the largest provider of ebooks in the Netherlands and Belgium.” BookShout has an agreement with premium supplier Forest Incentives that will enable public radio and TV stations to provide ebooks as gifts to their contributing members. Participating publishers include Harper Collins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Workman. Open Road has published 17 ebooks of poetry by John Ashbery, 87. The NYT looks at how improvements in formatting have overcome the poet’s initial objections to how his […]
