PaidContent has a story about a new DRM (Digital Rights Management) system in development by German researchers that will change individual words in an eBook so that pirated copies can be tracked back to their legitimate owners. Read the article for specifics and tell me that this little trick doesn’t sound monstrous. Clearly, any publisher …
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Jun 16
Update on the U.S. DOJ case against Apple.
CNET offers some notes to keep you up-to-date on the first two weeks of the U.S. Department of Justice’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple.
Jun 14
eBook Revolution News
GoodeReader has a few rare words from Sony about the future of the Reader Store. The Montreal Gazette says the U.S. DOJ antitrust lawsuit has reached a crucial stage with Apple executive Eddy Cue giving testimony vital to the defense’s playbook. More on Eddy Cue’s testimony here at CNET. Business Day wonders if reading eBooks is …
Jun 12
Apple claims 20% of U.S. eBook market.
PaidContent reports on a claim by Apple that it owns 20% of the U.S. eBook market.
Jun 11
Students and professors reluctant to go digital.
Digital Book World says that according to Bowker Market Research students and professors are not ready to adopt digital text books.
Jun 09
DOJ suit against Apple unlikely to change eBook prices.
The Standard-Examiner says that the U.S. Department of Justice’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple is unlikely to change eBook prices in the long run, however fair competition is likely to have an impact.
Jun 07
Digital Publishing Update
According to CNNMoney, lawyers for Apple are using the “Devil made us do it” defense citing Amazon’s pricing behavior as their motivation to bilk consumers out of millions in the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against the iPad designer. GoodeReader posted on the House of Fiction “Family Tree” launch at Sony eBook Store designed to help readers find titles that …
Jun 06
Apple made publishers an offer they couldn’t refuse.
More from the U.S. Department of Justice’s anti-trust lawsuit against Apple, this time from CNET. Publishing executives testified at the ongoing trial that Apple gave them no options when it came to joining the tech-giant’s price-fixing scheme.
Jun 05
Jobs already confident price fixing underway at iPad launch.
CNNMoney has video evidence of Apple’s Steve Jobs talking about eBook pricing after the iPad launch. Looks like the Apple iBooks price fix was already in.
Jun 04
Will lawsuit mean lower eBook prices?
CNBC posts on the U.S. Department of Justice and Apple’s court battle and wonders if it will lead to cheaper eBooks. (The prices have already been plummeting since the suit was first filed…)
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