Digital Book World posted that eBook sales showed a modest increase for the first quarter of 2013.
Category: Tablet
Jul 15
Digital Comic sales tripled in 2012
Comic Book Resources reports that sales of Digital Comics almost tripled in 2012.
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 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 …
Jul 07
eBooks impact textbook publishers.
USA Today posts on the eBook Revolution’s impact on the textbook industry.
Jul 05
eBook News Update
Oregon Live says a deal between the Oregon Department of Education and myON will give kids FREE access to thousands of eBooks. Comic Book Resources posted that Image Comics will ditch DRM for its digital comics. According to a Mobile Commerce News story Edutainment Systems has announced that an augmented reality service for its digital book app …
Jul 04
eBooks won’t drive paper books to extinction.
ECommerce Times updates us on the eBook Revolution and describes some of the long-term impact it’s having on traditional publishing.
Jul 03
Amazon awarded patent for eBooks DVD extras.
Wired.co.uk says Amazon has been awarded a long-awaited patent (first applied for in 2010) for DVD extras for eBooks. The additional material could come from publishers or from trusted sources, and consist of interviews, various media clips with related information (maps, character portraits, etc.) or alternate story lines. An interesting and much anticipated development that …
Jun 30
Tech coming to connect authors and readers.
Publishers Weekly reports on tech developments that will allow authors to reach out to readers in a “customized online social experience.”
Jun 27
Barnes and Noble still bright with eBooks and apps.
Quartz says that though Barnes and Noble is getting out of the Nook Tablet-making business, the future should be bright if the book seller embraces the sale of eBooks, focuses on single-purpose Nook devices and encourages the adoption of its eBook selling App.
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