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Top 10 iBook bestsellers to March 9/15

ABC News offers up the top ten iBook bestsellers for the week ending March 9, 2015.

Time to get mobile-friendly

Digital Book World posted on the necessity for publishers, actually anyone in the publishing industry with a web presence, to make their web sites “mobile-friendly” to suit Google’s new search algorithm.

Best eBook Readers Compared

Tech Times compares the best and brightest eBook readers in this post.

Beijing-based start-up opens China eBook market

TechCrunch reports on Fiberead a Beijing-based start-up that helps authors break into the $20-billion publishing market in China.

Authors and readers still into print

Digital Book World reports that authors and readers still want print books.

eBooks will be hit with higher value-added tax in Europe

According to The Verge, the EU is going to make life harder for the eBook Revolution and for eReaders by applying a higher value-added tax (VAT) rate than is on physical books because they consider an eBook an “electronically supplied service.” Call it what you want, a cash grab is a cash grab.

iBooks bestsellers to March 2, 2015.

Publishers Weekly posted iBooks bestseller list for the week ending March 2, 2015.

eBook Bestsellers list shows Penguin Random House dominating with range of prices.

Digital Book World’s latest eBook bestsellers list shows Penguin Random House dominating with prices ranging from $2.99 to $11.99.

Publishers bemoan falling revenues

TechCrunch posted on the recent drop in publisher revenues. Everyone including Indie authors has been hit by a general drop in sales. The main suspects for the falling revenue are rising prices of traditionally published titles and the devaluation of eBooks and cannibalization of sales by Amazon’s all-you-can eat and exclusive eBook subscription service Kindle Unlimited.

Barnes and Noble to keep Nook

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Barnes and Noble plans to keep its Nook business.