We’ve mentioned this story a couple of times, where Apple is accused of conspiring with publishers to fix the price of eBooks by way of adopting the agency pricing model. A lawsuit charges the publishers and booksellers with manipulating the market in an effort to keep eBook prices high enough to cool off the otherwise …
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Oct 04
Print while you wait, too little, too late?
FierceContentManagement offers a post on recent developments in digital publishing as it applies to the bricks and mortar world. It seems that some of the old standards like Harper Collins are inking deals to make their backlists available using the Espresso Book Machine’s print-while-you-wait technology. We’ve mentioned this before, but the idea is a customer …
Oct 03
Tablet War Brewing…
Gadget.ca hints at the predicted tablet and eReader war that looms on the horizon in a post that details Kobo ‘accidentally’ revealing its Kobo Vox Android Tablet (with details including the MSRP of $250). This development comes hot on the heels of Amazon’s release of its ‘Fire‘ full color tablet and trio of aggressively priced …
Sep 26
It’s looking like a tablet Christmas!
PCMag reports that Barnes and Noble is getting ready to launch another Nook Color tablet. The machine will be added to their existing line of E Ink and full color devices. This holiday season is going to be explosive if B&N’s tablet hits the market at the same time as Amazon and Kobo’s. Get ready …
Sep 18
DC Comics starts shift to digital.
WhatCulture has a post on DC Comics preparing to launch a new line of print comics that will be available the same day their digital equivalents go on sale. This will put the heat on Marvel comics that has been resisting the digital trend.
Sep 08
Do-it-yourself NookColor Upgrade
NookColor owners/users should check out this PCMag post that allows an easy (do-it-yourself) upgrade to expand your device’s capabilities and make it into a supercharged eBook Reader. The writer, David Pierce, makes the claim that all you need to do is “plunk in an N2A card and the Nook Color becomes a full-fledged Android 2.3 …
Aug 31
No eReader? You can still read eBooks…
Friends at Broadband Service Providers stopped by with a list of 10 different ways to read an eBook without an eReader. There are more options than might expect.
Aug 24
Is the B&N Nook Color right for you?
A slow news day in the eBook Revolution brings us a revisit and review of the Barnes and Noble Nook Color at GottaBeMobile. Pics and video at the link!
Aug 18
eBook Reader sales triple every year…
Now here’s a company I wish I’d invested in. A VentureBeat post says E Ink Holdings, the creators of the E Ink display used in eBook Readers, reported $650-million in sales in 2010 with expectations of surpassing $1-billion in revenue in 2011. Since 2006, eBook Reader sales have tripled annually. With the 2010 release of …
Aug 10
Amazon books on the Barnes and Noble Nook?
Indeed, Amazon has inked a deal with its enemy Barnes and Noble to allow titles published under the Amazon Publishing imprint to be available for sale and compatible with the B&N Nook. GoodeReader has the story where Amazon gets its footing in the biggest remaining bricks and mortar bookstore chain in the U.S.
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