Hachette Book Group is the first book publisher to partner with Gumroad on selling books natively from within Twitter. Their initiative will launch starting December 11 with limited-time promotions for three print books, by Amanda Palmer, Chris Hadfield, and The Onion. Separately, the Digital Reader discovered left-behind tracks for an initiative HBG never launched during their standoff with Amazon over terms. The publisher registered ebooksforall.com and was reportedly working with Australia’s eBooks.com and social DRM-provider Booxtream on a site that would have sold ebooks readable on Kindles as well as standard EPUB devices. Asked about the report, HBG spokesperson Sophie Cottrell told […]
