Category: Publishers

Jul 23

Dutch eBook re-seller allowed to operate

PCWorld says that Dutch courts have allowed used eBook seller, Tom Kabinet, to operate. It seems the copyright rules get murky regarding eBook and paper versions of books where the latter are allowed to be resold.

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Jul 22

eBook sales continue to rise in UK

Digital Book World reports that eBook sales are continuing to increase in the UK with sales up 10% over the same period last year.

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Jul 20

Apple could pay $400-million PLUS

According to eWeek, Apple has agreed to pay $400-million to consumers and $50-million to lawyers’ fees and payments to involved states if its appeal fails in regard to the guilty verdict levered against the iPad maker for price-fixing.

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Jul 18

Amazon trying eBook Subscription Service

Gizmodo reports on Amazon’s new attempt to dominate the eBook marketplace with Kindle Unlimited. They’re offering “unlimited” eBook reads for a single $10 per month membership. This is a shot across the bow for eBook subscription services Oyster and Scribd, and extends Amazon’s exclusionary reading environment because this service will only list titles by authors and publishers that have agreed …

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Jul 16

Aixa & the Scorpion: A Bruja Roja Story – eBook $2.99

NEW from Delia Fontana When the residents of Sangre de Cristo, a sleepy town on the border between Mexico and Texas, say no mas to the violence of the narcotrafficantes, they turn to town curandera Aixa Riley, a woman who is a citizen of two nations but also walks in two worlds. For Sangre de Cristo is a place where …