2025.
Alfa Ebooks Manager adds full-text search
Popular library organizer software
Alfa Ebooks Manager has added very interesting feature (as for desktop software) - full-text search, i.e. you can now search through all your book texts from a central search-form. It's quite useful for teachers, scientists, engineers and all other knowledge workers that want to source information from multiple books in their field. To enable full-text search in Alfa you need first add books to Index. You have 4 options depending on your needs: add all books by one click (but this may take a lot of time if you have thousands of books); using File Parser you can select needed books and add them to the Index; in the Scan you can check the box "Index Files" and add all new books to the Index; or add books to the Index manually one by one from the book card.
2023.
Sony to discontinue Sony Reader for desktop
Sony has announced that they will no longer provide downloads for their Reader Software for PC or Mac. If you use a Sony e-Reader, such as the PRS-T3, their latest model from eight years ago, you will no longer be able to utilize it. Sony has a rich history in the e-reader and e-note industry. They launched e-readers before Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo entered the market. They were also the pioneers behind the first front-lit display on e-readers. Additionally, they introduced the concept of e-notes, digital note-taking devices that allow you to freehand draw, take notes, or edit PDF documents. The e-reader industry would be entirely different if it weren’t for Sony. Good e-Reader is excited to present our first documentary, where we explore the complete history of Sony in the e-reader and e-note sector and their current status.
2021.
Book management software Booknizer 10 gets a new engine, quick filters for authors, group operations
The new major update of the book management software
Booknizer 10 brings a number of significant improvements thanks to the new internal engine. Most of the program's old code was completely rewritten to get rid of bugs and include modern optimizations. In previous versions of Booknizer, the quick filter menu always referred to books. New Booknizer can apply quick filters to authors, too. When the "Authors" tab is active, the menu switches to the authors view automatically. In the new version you can move the mouse cursor over the list of covers / photos and select an item by clicking on a checkbox that appears. This enables Group Operations, allowing to change / update multiple items at once. This is different from previous version, where you needed to enable Group Operations separately. Besides, it added support for picture download via HTTPS, quick search of highlighted phrase on Google, warnings in Add Book tool that a certain book is already in the library, autocomplete feature in drop-down fields. The new publication year field can hold the year of a particular edition and the total cost of your collection is now shown in the statistics window (according to the price entered or downloaded).
2019.
Calibre 4.0 improves Content server
The new version of popular ebook management software
Calibre is making its Content server ever more capable. It has gained the ability to Edit metadata, Add/remove books and even Convert books to and from all the formats calibre itself supports. It is now a full fledged interface to your calibre libraries. Besides, the new version is built on the new web browser engine Qt WebEngine. The change to use Qt WebEngine has entailed a complete rewrite of various parts of calibre, including the E-book viewer, PDF Output, Book details etc. Every attempt has been made to preserve features and functionality in a backwards compatible way, see below for a list of some known incompatibilities.
2017.
Delicious Library restricted to looking up items on Amazon US and Amazon Canada only. 
Book management software for Mac
Delicious Library will no longer update ebook metadata from Amazon, at least from European Amazon sites. The Amazon platforms in Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom have all chosen to end their relationship with Delicious Monster this week. Amazon sites in the United States and Canada will continue to function for now (though they are predominantly in English and primarily offer items for sale in North America). Amazon remains steadfast in restricting third-party ebook software and apps from accessing its content (whether on Kindle or in the bookstore). The company aims to establish itself as the sole book provider and control every aspect of how you engage with book content. Remember the 1984 issue?
2013.
Alfa Ebooks Manager 4: New design, Book details pane and other features
Alfa.NetSoft released the new version of its book management software
Alfa Ebooks Manager 4. The list of new features includes new sleeker design, book details pane (that allows to view book details while browsing your library), new cooler 3D View with author photos, File Finder (that allows to move library to another drive or computer), Kindle Integration (now you can manage your Kindle's library in Alfa), Import from Calibre OPF files, fast PDF parser (that allows to retrieve PDF metadata) and DJVU full support (now you can retrieve metadata and covers from Djvu books).
2012.
Kindlian 3 allows to manage books on Kindle Paperwhite
Kindlian, the book management software for Kindle, now supports the latest Kindle Paperwhite e-readers. The developers mention that Amazon goes to great lengths to prevent third-party apps from managing the device, so they had to create a special agent—a file you need to copy to your Documents folder. They claim it’s very simple and safe for your device. Additionally, Kindlian can now convert EPUB and HTML books to MOBI on-the-fly. When you add EPUB or HTML books in the new version, Kindlian automatically converts them to MOBI. The new version also allows you to rename PDF books and edit other PDF metadata twice as quickly.
2011.
Book management program Calibre integrates with book websites
The latest version of book manager
Calibre 0.8 can now search across numerous web stores like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones and others for e-book editions of the book you want. The results are shown sorted by price, making it easy to find the most affordable edition to add to your collection. This feature, like the rest of Calibre, is plugin-based, so expect new stores to be added in the future. When downloading covers for a single book, Calibre will now retrieve covers from all available online sources and let you choose the one you prefer, rather than making the choice for you. Additionally, you can now perform search and replace operations on the book list in your Calibre library using the Bulk Metadata Edit tool and create complex file names from book metadata when exporting books from the Calibre library. The new Virtual Columns feature allows you to add custom metadata fields and automatically populate them from Calibre. For instance, you can add an ISBN column or a column to display the formats the book is available in.
2009.
LibraryThing faces Amazon incursion
Amazon is requiring online book management software
LibraryThing to remove links to other booksellers (IndieBound and Barnes and Noble...) on work pages and to put the primary page link to Amazon alone. Links to other booksellers are prohibited. Everyone at LibraryThing disagrees with this decision. LibraryThing is not a social cataloging and social networking site for Amazon customers but for book lovers. So now LibraryThing is creating a new “Get it Now” page, with links to other booksellers, especially local bookstores and libraries and a host of new features. It will cut back its primary-page links to Amazon alone and give people better secondary pages. The page will be edition-aware and draw on feeds or live data (so the links work). Many members have wanted live pricing data for the books they already own and these features can be used for that purpose too.
