eBook Revoution in China
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China Daily reports that China is experiencing its own eBook Revolution. eBook adoption is growing exponentially according to data released by the Dangdang Group (including eBook readers’ index and sales revenues) at the Dangdang Publication Suppliers Conference in Beijing on January 9, 2017.
Amazon developing a color Kindle?
Goodereader has reported on Amazon developing a color Kindle eReader due for release in October or November.
New report predicts US eBook market to reach $13-Billion by 2020
admin Affordable eBooks, eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, Free eBooks, Indie publish, iPad, Kindle, Publishers, Rumors, Smashwords, Tablet Talking New Media reports that the US eBook Market will continue to grow to $13-Billion by 2020.
New Kindle eReader coming to market
PCMag reported that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is talking about the impending release of a new Kindle eReader.
The big four publishers will return to price-fixing… I mean the Agency Model…
admin Affordable eBooks, eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Rumors, Samsung, Tablet According to Slate, Amazon has lost another battle, this time to HarperCollins that has won the right to overprice its eBooks again. HarperCollins joins the unique club of big publishers that also won the fight with Amazon—Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan. You might remember this bunch being found guilty for conspiring with Apple to “fix” prices on eBooks.
Remember? It’s slightly more than a year since these publishers finished settling out of court before the U.S. Justice Department anti-trust lawsuit judgment landed on Apple. These companies settled out of court and repaid millions and millions of dollars that had been bilked out of consumers with the Agency Model.
Somehow these publishers can now fix prices again, and Amazon is avoiding blame by adding a disclaimer to overpriced HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan eBook titles: “This price was set by the publisher.”
It makes you wonder if there was any point to the U.S. Justice Department lawsuit.
Despite the setback for consumers, it may still be an opportunity for Indie authors. Those that haven’t ransomed their options to Kindle Unlimited are able to price their eBooks fairly. (Indies invented fair eBook pricing, anyway.)
Apple rumored to be #2 eBook retailer in U.S. over B&N
Digital Book World has a post suggesting Apple is now the second largest eBook retailer in the U.S. over Barnes and Noble. There’s more to the story of who comes after first place Amazon at the link.
eBook Revolution Update
admin Affordable eBooks, eBook Software, eBooks, Google Editions, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, Rumors, Samsung, Tablet, Uncategorized ZDNet reports on the top eBook apps for iPad.
Digital Book World talks about eBook publishers with their eye on the China market.
Talking New Media has some tips for Indie authors.
CIO offers 10 Amazon Kindle Fire HDX tablet tricks and tips.
TUAW has a Samsung ad that teases iPad, Microsoft Surface and Amazon Kindle.
McGraw-Hill and Baker & Taylor to supply 5,000 eBooks for library lending
GoodeReader reports that McGraw-Hill Professional and Baker & Taylor have reached an agreement that will help to swell the list of growing digital titles at school and public libraries by making 5,000 tech, professional and medical titles available for lending.
Ingram adds 400,000 new eBook titles.
According to a PRWeb release Ingram’s OASIS Library Platform, in collaboration with ProQuests’s EBL – eBook library, has added 400,000 new eBook titles.
Slump in eBook sales exaggerated
admin eBook Readers, eBook Stores, eBooks, eReaders, iPad, Kindle, Kobo eReader, nook, Publishers, Rumors, Samsung The Irish Times’ Eoin Purcell reports that the rumors of the 2013 slump in eBooks sales may have been greatly exaggerated. (Or miscalculated…)
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