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The economics of digital books: royalty bands by price, subscription page-read rates, advertising cost against return, spending on covers and editing, and what a first year of self-publishing typically produces. Reported figures, not projections. For authors treating writing as a business.
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How to Borrow Library eBooks on a Kobo eReader
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How Library E-Book Lending Works: you're borrowing a license, not a book
Every hold, due date, and price tag behind a Libby loan traces back to a licensing deal most readers never see — here's what libraries and publishers actually agreed to.
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Stuff Your Kindle Day Returns on August 10, 2026
The Romance Bookworms' Stuff Your Kindle event kicks off on August 10, 2026, with participating ebooks free or $0.99 — after July's run and ahead of September's month-long Beachside Reads.
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Bookshop.org Says Kobo E-Reader Support Is Still Coming in 2026
Per TechCrunch, July 6, 2026, Bookshop.org confirmed its ebooks will finally be readable on Kobo e-readers within 2026 — a promise first made, and missed, in 2025.
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Kobo and StoryGraph Integration Is Live: Reading Stats, Synced
Kobo's StoryGraph integration, live as of June 2026, pipes reading progress from Kobo devices and apps straight into the popular reading tracker — no more manual logging.
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Pre-2012 Kindles Just Lost Kindle Store Access: What Still Works
On May 20, 2026, pre-2012 Kindles lost access to the Kindle Store, per Amazon — but with a computer and a USB cable, the hardware remains a perfectly usable reader.
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E-Book Revenue Dipped 5% in Q1 2026, AAP StatShot Shows
The AAP StatShot for Q1 2026 shows the industry up 0.9% while ebooks fell 5% to $261 million and digital audio jumped 15.9% — a format shuffle, not a reading slump.