Jul 30
Time Techland spent 30 days with the Google Nexus 7 Tablet and came away impressed. (Thank god! Maybe we can read Google’s gigantic eBook library on it.)
Jul 29
PublishersWeekly offers a story on a plan by ReDigi to sell used eBooks. I’m not sure the term “used” makes any sense in a digital world.
Jul 27
USAToday has posted on the most recent cash grab in digital publishing, the mini eBook. You pay a couple of bucks for a sample, condensed version or “out take” written to promote an upcoming novel. GoodeReader reports on Barnes and Noble partnering with FastPencil to bring Indie book titles to physical stores. The OttawaCitizen talks …
Jul 26
DigitalBookWorld predicts the wild west in digital publishing this fall. That’s when eBook prices are expected to drop as the agency pricing model is abandoned by complicit publishers who have settled with the Department of Justice instead of fighting the anti-trust lawsuit levered against Apple and others.
Jul 25
PCMag reports on the five or six new tablet devices rumored to be on the way from Amazon. iDownloadblog posted on the Department of Justice’s response to comments about the pending anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its gang of price-fixing publishers. The suit will go ahead.
Jul 24
GoodeReader suggests that Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet selling out in U.S. and Canada could be a sign of dark days ahead for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. With both machines looking like long lost twins is there a death match ahead or healthy competition?
Jul 23
Time offers more on the industry “push back” against the Department of Justice’s anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its gang of price-fixing publishers. Apparently, connected individuals want the DOJ to drop the suit. It amazes me that Apple, the implicated publishers and their political cronies are actually trying to sell the “we’re doing it for …
Jul 22
GoodeReader reviews the new Google Nexus 7 tablet. Video and pictures of the device at the link.
Jul 20
CNN reports that Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet starts shipping this week. GoodeReader says Google Play Books are now available in France. The L.A.Times posted on an early iPad prototype that illustrates the big baby steps Apple took on the way to developing the popular device. The Financial Post says romance authors are suing Harlequin …
Jul 19
GoodeReader says that a BookStats report shows eBooks now make up 30% of all U.S. trade fiction sales. The New York Times blog has more on the story.
