Dec 13
Digital Book World offers its top ten eBook best-sellers list for the week ending December 8, 2013. Engadget says Google has made it easier to upload eBook libraries to Play Books. Talking New Media says Simon & Schuster has formed a partnership with Follet to bring 450+ PreK-12 eBook titles to the Titlewave® platform. The …
Dec 12
Digital Book World continues to track the eBook best-seller price war that is brewing as the holiday season approaches with the average title reaching an all-time low.
Dec 10
Gigaom says a New York Federal judge has thrown out an almost year-old case brought by independent booksellers against Amazon, where they say the Kindle-maker conspired with publishers to create a monopoly whereby the Kindle eReader’s proprietary digital rights management (DRM) software forced consumers to purchase from Amazon exclusively.
Dec 09
GoodeReader has a post on Simon & Schuster UK’s launch of The Hot Bed, a genre-centered blog and social media site for fans of Romance and New Adult fiction.
Dec 08
GeekWire reviews Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX tablet in time for the 2013 gift giving season.
Dec 07
BBC has a story about Yota’s new phone that boasts two screens. On one side the Android device offers the traditional full color screen, while on the other you’ll find an E Ink screen. The designers have incorporated the low-energy E Ink for static displays, but one wonders if you can read eBooks on it. There …
Dec 05
The Guardian has a story on Amazon’s recent revelation that one quarter of its Kindle book sales were Indie eBooks.
Dec 04
Digital Book World says that Amazon’s “12 Days of Deals in Books” will usher in similar low best-seller prices and sales across the eBook marketplace as the industry gears up for the 2013 Holiday Season.
Dec 03
GoodeReader has posted on HP’s launch of four new Android tablets with the multi-function eReading devices starting at $149.99.
Dec 02
ValueWalk reports that Apple is complaining about being over-charged by its court-appointed monitor after a guilty verdict against the iPad maker for price-fixing. What can you say…
