Category: iPad

eBook Revolution Update

Bloomberg says Amazon stands to gain market share after Apple’s guilty verdict in the price-fixing lawsuit against the iPad maker. A Star Online column defines the “Reading Revolution” by taking us from clay tablets to eBooks and iPads. Deadline Hollywood reports on Indie Author Matthew Mather selling the movie rights to his novel Cyber Storm to 20th …

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More on the Apple eBook Price-fixing Conspiracy Guilty Verdict

Paid Content expands on the guilty verdict Apple received for its role in an eBook price-fixing conspiracy, and makes some predictions about its impact on the eBook Revolution.

Apple Guilty of price-fixing

US District Judge Denise Cote said the following in a 160-page ruling. “The plaintiffs have shown that the publisher defendants conspired with each other to eliminate retail price competition in order to raise e-book prices, and that Apple played a central role in facilitating and executing that conspiracy… Without Apple’s orchestration of this conspiracy it …

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eBooks impact textbook publishers.

USA Today posts on the eBook Revolution’s impact on the textbook industry.

eBooks won’t drive paper books to extinction.

ECommerce Times updates us on the eBook Revolution and describes some of the long-term impact it’s having on traditional publishing.

Tech coming to connect authors and readers.

Publishers Weekly reports on tech developments that will allow authors to reach out to readers in a “customized online social experience.”

Apple’s fate now in judge’s hands.

Macworld reports that the fate of Apple is now in the judge’s hands as the Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit against the iPad maker approaches its conclusion.

Digital Publishing Headlines

Digital Book World reports on the slowly rising average price of eBook Best Sellers. The Montreal Gazette says that in closing arguments in the U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit against Apple, the iPad maker (predictably) denied being part of a conspiracy to artificially increase the price of eBooks. The Washington Times posted on the frustration publishers feel …

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Barnes and Noble testifies at DOJ trial against Apple

CNNMoney provides an update on the continuing Department of Justice price-fixing lawsuit against Apple with Barnes and Noble giving testimony at the trial.

Deals continue on Barnes and Noble eReading devices

Digital Book World posted on Barnes and Noble’s ongoing efforts to boost their place in the eBook Revolution with continuing deals on the once market leading Nook Tablets and eReaders.