DigitalBookWorld predicts the wild west in digital publishing this fall. That’s when eBook prices are expected to drop as the agency pricing model is abandoned by complicit publishers who have settled with the Department of Justice instead of fighting the anti-trust lawsuit levered against Apple and others.
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Jul 25
News from Amazon and the US Department of Justice
PCMag reports on the five or six new tablet devices rumored to be on the way from Amazon. iDownloadblog posted on the Department of Justice’s response to comments about the pending anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its gang of price-fixing publishers. The suit will go ahead.
Jul 24
Turf war ahead for Google Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire?
GoodeReader suggests that Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet selling out in U.S. and Canada could be a sign of dark days ahead for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. With both machines looking like long lost twins is there a death match ahead or healthy competition?
Jul 23
eBook Revolution Crime
Time offers more on the industry “push back” against the Department of Justice’s anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its gang of price-fixing publishers. Apparently, connected individuals want the DOJ to drop the suit. It amazes me that Apple, the implicated publishers and their political cronies are actually trying to sell the “we’re doing it for …
Jul 22
Google Nexus 7 Tablet Reviewed
GoodeReader reviews the new Google Nexus 7 tablet. Video and pictures of the device at the link.
Jul 20
eBook Revolution Headlines
CNN reports that Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet starts shipping this week. GoodeReader says Google Play Books are now available in France. The L.A.Times posted on an early iPad prototype that illustrates the big baby steps Apple took on the way to developing the popular device. The Financial Post says romance authors are suing Harlequin …
Jul 19
30% of trade fiction sales are eBooks.
GoodeReader says that a BookStats report shows eBooks now make up 30% of all U.S. trade fiction sales. The New York Times blog has more on the story.
Jul 17
Rakuten’s Kobo Touch about to conquer Japan.
The Bookseller reports that the fairly recent acquisition of Kobo eReader by Japanese tech-giant Rakuten is about to pay in spades with the popular eBook Reader’s July 19th Japanese launch offering access to an eBook service touting 30,000 Japanese titles and over 1-million English eBooks. The fact that Amazon is moving up the release of …
Jul 06
eBook Revolution reading while we’re away.
eBook Rumors will be on vacation from July 7 to July 15, 2012. Â We’ve left some reading for you to enjoy while we’re away. Thanks again and see you soon! Sincerely, John Cypher, Editor GoodeReader says we should expect new budget tablets coming from Skytex this summer. ComputerWorld gives us the lowdown on the Archos …
Jul 05
eBook pirates dominate Russian marketplace.
The Telegraph has a story about eBook Pirates in Russia strangling the market for legitimate sellers.
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