In a pre-holiday announcement on its blog, Google quietly pulled the plug on its attempt to help booksellers to sell ebooks: it announced the end of its reseller programme in which Google provided the technology for booksellers to sell ebooks from their own websites. The move affects partners in the US, Canada, the UK and [...]

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Almost a year after it launched in the US, Google has opened its ebooks business to Australian readers through partnerships with national bookselling chain Dymocks and online bookseller Booktopia. The two sites went live today and will bring “hundreds of thousands” of ebooks to Australian customers. A search of the Dymocks site shows 148,000 titles [...]

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Google has just launched the Google Ebooks affiliate programme, opening the door for any website owner to become an ebook retailer. Likely candidates would be bloggers, publishers, media sites, link sites and anyone who can generate a reasonable amount of traffic. Even booksellers. Sites can link to a single ebook, a group of titles, or [...]

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The following article was published in the No. 1, 2011 edition of News on Bookselling, the official journal of the Australian Booksellers Association. Since it was written (mid February), another ebookstore with plans to offer its system to Aussie booksellers has launched. I’ve added a footnote to the original story.   By Martin Taylor Booksellers [...]

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