Observer Business and Tech offers an update on the scammers scamming Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited. It turns out that Amazon was lying and scamming its legitimate authors and readers all along with false claims of actually knowing the number of pages read (and paying authors for those). It turns out that all Amazon actually knows is the last page …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Apr 26
2.9-inch E Ink display for smartphone cases
According to a Liliputing post E Ink has moved from eReaders to smartphone cases with this 2.9-inch display.
Apr 22
China government suspends iBooks and iTune movies
The Los Angeles Times reports Apple customers in China wanting refunds after their iBooks and iTune movies were suspended at the request of government authorities.
Apr 21
New options available for Kindle Fire Tablet
Digital Book World reports on Amazon adding new colors and storage to its Fire tablet. The black Fire will now be accompanied by tangerine, blue and magenta versions with the option of having 8-Gig storage for $49.99 or 16-Gig for $69.99.
Apr 20
Romance titles account for 50% or Smashwords’ sales
Citing a recent survey, Galleycat says that while Fiction accounts for 89.5% of overall sales at the Smashwords Indie publishing platform, 50% of them are Romance titles.
Apr 19
Supreme Court passes on Google book copying case
Digital Book World reports on the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to review the fair use finding in the ten-year-old book copying case against Google.
Apr 17
Russian platform vKontakte going after eBook pirates
TorrentFreak reports that Russian social networking platform vKontakte is FINALLY cracking down on eBook piracy. The marketplace expected that there would be some eBook piracy, but things are out of control. And up until now, it seemed there was very little being done about it. Let’s hope this is just the first of many efforts to slow …
Apr 14
Amazon veers away from democratized eBook reading
Techspective continues the discussion about the expensive new Kindle Oasis eReader as Amazon increases the price of reading an eBook by adding bells and whistles few have asked for. The Oasis is a good looking piece of hardware, but the online retail giant has forgotten it once championed the low cost, convenience and accessibility of eBooks. …
Apr 13
Amazon Kindle Oasis sleek but not cheap
Mashable posted more on the new Amazon Kindle Oasis that offers a sleek design and improvements for up to $379.00 (without ads).
Apr 12
Details leak on new Kindle eReader
The Verge has an update on leaked details (including photos) of the new Kindle eReader.
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