Four e-book promotions and one e-book/print cross-promotion were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include middle grade and teen reads, summer fun, literary picks, and comics.

Seven e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include Scandinavian thrillers from Jo Nesbo, summer gardening, outdoor fun, and great destinations.

Two e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include health and fitness and cooking.

Seven e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include teen reads, cookbooks, steals and deals, beach reads, middle grade books, travel, and Father’s Day.

Six e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include Bravo channel stars, backyard projects, barbecuing, water-themed stories, and projects for kids.

Kobo is extending its BEA show special on eReading devices to June 30 for all ABA member stores. In addition, a special Father’s Day promotion offers a free sleepcover for the Arc, and Workman is offering an exclusive Kobo eBook edition of Jessica’s Hagy’s How to Be Interesting, with How to Be Interesting After You Graduate: A Digital Short as an extra chapter at the end.

Kobo eReaders and eBooks are featured in a national brand campaign on NPR that began on Monday, June 3, and will continue until the end of 2013.

Beginning immediately after BEA, Kobo eReaders and eBooks will be featured in a national brand campaign on NPR that will run until the end of the year. The news was announced first to ABA member bookstores participating in the Kobo program in an e-mail update on May 23.

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At its annual conference held last Thursday, May 16, in Brussels, the European & International Booksellers Federation released the results of a study that found no technical or functional obstacles to an open e-book ecosystem.