The Christian Science Monitor reports on an open letter by Authors Guild President Scott Turow on the continuing drama surrounding  Apple and the gang of 5 New York publishers (Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, MacMillan, Penguin, and Harper Collins) who are the subject of a potential anti-trust lawsuit, in which Turow wonders if the …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Mar 12
Apple postures for a fight, while co-conspirators jump ship.
PaidContent reports on an Apple court filing where the iPad maker fights back against a pending US Justice Department anti-trust lawsuit by downplaying the Amazon Kindle threat. Instead they’re claiming their newbie status in an Amazon-dominated eBook industry is proof against any conspiracy. All of this while some of the ‘co-conspirators’ (5 Major New York Publishers) are …
Mar 11
Anti-trust Suit looms for Apple and price-fixing co-conspirators.
With the US Justice Department preparing an anti-trust suit against Apple and five A-list New York-based publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Penguin, Macmillan, and HarperCollins, the Atlantic continues the discussion on fair eBook pricing and wonders who will win when this all goes to court. Will the eBook Revolution find the way to democratized …
Mar 09
eBook Piracy from the inside.
I don’t include this post at Step2 Success Models from the Insight Community as an endorsement of file-sharing or encouragement to pirate eBooks, but it does give a rather frank look into the mind of an individual who has the technical know-how to bypass all of the locks and DRM (digital rights management) that business throws …
Mar 08
Apple lands 5 publishers in hot water, and more.
BBC News updates a story that’s been running for over a year concerning a U.S. Department of Justice investigation in which five US publishers and Apple are now being threatened with legal action because of the way they ‘conspired to raise the price of eBooks.’ Â Apple and the publishers pushed for the Agency Model of …
Mar 07
New Apple iPad Rolls Out.
Read about the Retina Display on Apple’s new iPad (Hi-Def) here at CNN.
Mar 07
Google Play leaps into the digital content provider arena.
Remember Google Books (or Google Editions)? Sort of launched and left a bland taste didn’t it? Well it seems the web search giant is finally making a push into the digital content arena, and they’re bringing Google Books with them according to USA Today. The multi-content platform is called Google Play.
Mar 06
American Library Association asks Random House to reconsider nasty price hike
PublishersWeekly has a statement issued by The American Library Association (ALA) that laments Random House’s recent decision to hike the price of eBooks it sells to libraries by up to 300%.
Mar 05
Amazon Publishing to allow its eBook editions to sell outside the Kindle store.
Engadget has a story on Amazon Publishing about to sell some of its new titles as print editions and eBooks outside of the Kindle store. It will be interesting to see how this develops since the eBook giant’s print editions were recently pulled from Barnes & Noble book shelves because Amazon refused to sell the …
Mar 04
Stories to start Read an eBook Week
Read an eBook Week runs March 4-10th. So get out there and read an eBook. eBookWeek has more. The Digital Journal offers an Op-Ed piece by Paul Wallis on PayPal’s sudden move toward censorship when it ordered its client eBook publisher/distributor Smashwords to remove questionable fiction books from its catalog. The Sacramento Bee reports on …
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