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PCMag reviews Kindle Oasis

PCMag posted a review on the expensive Amazon Kindle Oasis eBook reader.

Kobo launches in Turkey

Digital Book World reports that Kobo has launched in Turkey.

Scammers scam Amazon while Amazon scams authors

Observer Business and Tech offers an update on the scammers scamming Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited. It turns out that Amazon was lying and scamming its legitimate authors and readers all along with false claims of actually knowing the number of pages read (and paying authors for those). It turns out that all Amazon actually knows is the last page …

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2.9-inch E Ink display for smartphone cases

According to a Liliputing post E Ink has moved from eReaders to smartphone cases with this 2.9-inch display.

Publishers not falling for Kindle Unlimited trap

GoodeReader writes about Amazon trying to coax publishers and agents into the Kindle Unlimited all-you-can-eat (kinda) eBook subscription service. It isn’t going to happen. The traditional publishers don’t want in, even if they’re offered perks and their titles do not have to be exclusive, because Kindle Unlimited has already snared a lot of the unpredictable Indie eBook competition …

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China government suspends iBooks and iTune movies

The Los Angeles Times reports Apple customers in China wanting refunds after their iBooks and iTune movies were suspended at the request of government authorities.

New options available for Kindle Fire Tablet

Digital Book World reports on Amazon adding new colors and storage to its Fire tablet. The black Fire will now be accompanied by tangerine, blue and magenta versions with the option of having 8-Gig storage for $49.99 or 16-Gig for $69.99.

Romance titles account for 50% or Smashwords’ sales

Citing a recent survey, Galleycat says that while Fiction accounts for 89.5% of overall sales at the Smashwords Indie publishing platform, 50% of them are Romance titles.

Supreme Court passes on Google book copying case

Digital Book World reports on the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to review the fair use finding in the ten-year-old book copying case against Google.

Russian platform vKontakte going after eBook pirates

TorrentFreak reports that Russian social networking platform vKontakte is FINALLY cracking down on eBook piracy. The marketplace expected that there would be some eBook piracy, but things are out of control. And up until now, it seemed there was very little being done about it. Let’s hope this is just the first of many efforts to slow …

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