Apple buys BookLamp
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Digital Trends says Apple has bought up BookLamp to compete (possibly) with Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited eBook subscription platform.
Not sure how that will work out if they’re also pushing publishers and writers into exclusive contracts to participate in the eBook subscription service. (Unless the iPad maker is going to call up its old price-fixing buddies.)
Amazon’s already getting lots of resistance from authors and publishers who want an open market. The big picture in digital content never allows for exclusivity. (Cue the eBook pirates.)
Judge questions Apple’s appeal of eBook ruling
admin eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Samsung, Tablet The Register says that the U.S. judge that found Apple guilty of a price-fixing conspiracy is now concerned with the details of the iPad maker’s appeal of the verdict. Seems Apple slipped some fine-print in there.
Oyster branching out to web and all mobile devices
admin Affordable eBooks, eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, Free eBooks, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Samsung, Tablet Digital Book World reports that eBook subscription service Oyster has added a web-based browser to its platform and is now available on all mobile devices.
eBook sales continue to rise in UK
admin eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Tablet Digital Book World reports that eBook sales are continuing to increase in the UK with sales up 10% over the same period last year.
Smashwords’ Indie eBook sales survey released
admin Affordable eBooks, eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, Free eBooks, iPad, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Samsung, Tablet Publishers Weekly reports on Indie publisher Smashwords’ 2014 eBook sales survey.
Penguin Random House UK squeezes Amazon
admin eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Samsung, Tablet Digital Book World reports that Penguin Random House UK continues to fly into Amazon’s airspace by launching an online eBook retail and recommendation platform.
Tips for publishing start-ups
admin eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Samsung, Tablet Digital Book World offers some tips for publishing start-ups.
Digital Publishing Update
admin eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Samsung, Tablet Boston.com talks pitfalls in library eBook lending.
A Gigaom story says a Netherlands bookstore is preparing to sell “second hand” eBooks. European courts prepare to battle over the resale of digital media.
Digital Book World reports that a pilot project has ended favorably and now libraries across the U.S. can access Simon & Schuster’s complete eBook catalog.
And Digital Book World says Penguin Random House dominates the Amazon Best Books for 2014 list. (…a little premature, perhaps. There are five months to go…)
Publisher revenue down. eBook sales up.
admin eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Samsung, Tablet Gigaom posted on a BookStats report that showed U.S. Publisher revenue remained flat in 2013 though the unit sales increased. Lower eBook prices could account for this.
Another important thing to consider when reading this report is Indie author and publisher titles without ISBNs are not tracked by BookStats.
Barnes and Noble splits into “old” and “new”
Time.com Money reports on Barnes & Noble’s move to separate its bricks and mortar book stores from its Nook tablet unit.
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