There seems to be a serious case of ‘anything you can do, I can do better’ in the publishing industry. Last week saw the announcement that Amazon had bought online bookclub Goodreads, hot on the heels of the launch of the similar Bookish site, backed by the big guns of the industry who are Amazon’s competitors.
In another round of corporate fisticuffs, Barnes & Noble have put their eBook dukes up against Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) by launching NOOK Press, their own self-publishing service.