The next time you’re travelling to work on the train take a look around your fellow passengers — if they are listening on headphones there’s a good chance they’re listening to an erotica audiobook. Read more...

Ebook subscription service Scribd has gone back to ‘unlimited’ access to ebooks and audiobooks for subscribers two years after ditching its original unlimited deal and capping members at three ebooks a month plus one audiobook. Read more...

Amazon Publishing’s Thomas & Mercer imprint has picked up two new titles from Teresa Driscoll, the writer of the smash hit psychological thriller I Am Watching You. Read more...

Two romance titles have won the first Kindle Direct Publishing Pen to Publish self-publishing contest in India which offered a prize of one million rupees for each winning author. Read more...

Kobo has signed a deal with Walmart to set up an ebook and audiobook service for the US supermarket giant that will also see Kobo’e e-reading devices sold in Walmart stores and online. Read more...

Barnes & Noble has integrated its self-publishing operation into a single platform that can publish ebooks or print books and it has changed the name from Nook Press to Barnes & Noble Press. Read more...