ZDNET posted that the U.S. Department of Justice has some suggestions to upgrade Apple eBook sales practices following a guilty verdict in the iPad maker’s price-fixing lawsuit. One suggestion is to force Apple to allow links to competitors to better help consumers compare prices. The Bookseller says Simon and Schuster cites a 29% increase in …
Category: Publishers
Jul 30
How to prolong your battery life…
Our friend Jorgen has popped by with a Daily Mail link for those of you who are doing most of your reading on your cellular phone and want to get the best out of your battery. (Check out the link to Jorgen’s blog, Xorgen’ism, too. Some beautiful photography there…)
Jul 26
Digital Publishing Headlines
Digital Book World gives their eBook publisher power rankings list. UPI says Google will offer textbooks as eBooks at Google Play. The BookSeller says fiction eBooks will overtake print books in 2014. An AFP story says the European Union has ended its anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and colluding publishers in favor of legally binding commitments.
Jul 23
Kobo Writing Life option for Indie authors
Pocket-lint reports on Kobo’s Writing Life publishing platform for Indie authors and publishers.
Jul 22
Allan Guthrie talks eBook Revolution
Author, agent and now digital publisher Allan Guthrie shares his insights into the eBook Revolution at the Highland News. He makes some good points for Indie authors and the readers who love them.
Jul 21
Publishers putting the screws to public libraries.
The Huffington Post reports on the way publishers are putting the screws to public libraries that want to offer popular eBooks.
Jul 16
First quarter 2013 showed modest increase to eBook sales
Digital Book World posted that eBook sales showed a modest increase for the first quarter of 2013.
Jul 12
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 …
Jul 11
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.
Jul 10
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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