1. Amazon’s U.K. contract with top book publisher Penguin Random House set to expire (Jason Del Rey / Re/code)
2. Vook pivots, becomes self-pub platform Pronoun (Calvin Reid / Publishers Weekly)
3. Harlequin Audio formed in US (Joshua Farrington / The Bookseller)
4. Is Audible pushing German publishers into a flat-rate all-you-can-listen streaming service? (Nate Hoffelder / Ink, Bits & Pixels)
5. Google Play Books Publisher Program has been closed (Mike Kozlowski / Good E-Reader)