The New York Times reports on Amazon’s recent decision to pull thousands of eBook titles in a bid to change profit sharing contracts with publishers. GottaBeMobile has posted on the upcoming function and price wars between the Amazon Kindle Fire and the now evenly price Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet. The MacObserver says BookReader 3.8 …
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Feb 17
February 17 – eBook Revolution Updates
PCWorld gives us this comprehensive list and reviews of the best eBook Readers on the market. (Worth checking out.) BusinesstoCommunity.com gives instruction on reading EPUB books on Android devices. CBCNews says that Canadians are reading more books and eBooks. (10% of all titles sold in Canada are digital.) DigitalJournal reports on eBook publisher BookBaby adding …
Feb 16
eBooks Headed to the Classroom.
The Lantern wonders whether the eBook Revolution will win out over hard copy textbooks in schools and learning institutions, or if there will be a place for both. The answer to this one rests in the quarterly profits of publishers and the balance sheets of educational institutions. It is cheaper to produce the eTexts and …
Jan 27
Digital Book World ends. Indie Author success stories continue!
PublishersWeekly offers this wrap-up of the Digital Book World conference held this week in New York. And PublishersWeekly gives us this story from Digital Book World that makes no secret of the fact that the best time to be a writer is NOW. (We’ve been saying that for a while!) The Verge posted on Toshiba’s …
Jan 26
What motivates an eBook Pirate?
GoodeReader speculates on the types of people who take part in eBook Piracy, and offers some solutions to the underground movement of digital editions. I still think the price of eBooks is the biggest motivation for eBook Piracy and illegal file sharing. It’s too easy to justify downloading pirated content when the easily copied, stored …
Jan 22
Class-action lawsuit against Apple updated.
The AppleInsider updates us on the class-action lawsuit that says Apple and publishers engaged in a ‘price-fixing conspiracy’ and teamed up to display ‘antagonism’ toward Amazon’s pricing scheme. (Is it just me or is it hard to feel sorry for any of these guys?)
Jan 20
Friday eBook Revolution Headlines
According to Reuters the American Congress has postponed the Monday vote on flawed anti-piracy legislation (SOPA & PIPA) that provoked the Internet to strike. (Us too…) The shelved legislation could have seriously hampered the Internet’s architecture and freedoms, and started a shift of power back to the old status quo. (It would have impacted the …
Jan 18
The Internet Goes on Strike!
eBookRumors.com was proud to join thousands of other web sites today in a global strike to protest the flawed American legislation: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). It is an obvious power grab facilitated by connected politicos buckling under pressure from industries that have tried to control digital content since …
Jan 13
Publishers less optimistic about eBooks in 2012
PaidContent has a post about a recent poll suggesting publishers are not as optimistic about digital publishing as they were a year ago. That’s a blast from the past. Remember when publishers vocally denounced eBooks? Well, they’re feeling a little bit nostalgic now that the writing is on the wall. They’re going to have to …
Jan 11
Sell used eBooks? Nobody’s going to buy it!
In the Nice Try department of the eBook Revolution, here’s a story at eBookNewser about a company called Lexink that plans to sell ‘used’ eBooks. They claim their Unloder software allows the consumer to sell an eBook by permanently removing the file from your eReader library, so that this ‘used’ file can be sold again. …
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