Digital Trends says Apple has bought up BookLamp to compete (possibly) with Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited eBook subscription platform. Not sure how that will work out if they’re also pushing publishers and writers into exclusive contracts to participate in the eBook subscription service. (Unless the iPad maker is going to call up its old price-fixing buddies.) Amazon’s already getting …
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Jul 25
Judge questions Apple’s appeal of eBook ruling
The Register says that the U.S. judge that found Apple guilty of a price-fixing conspiracy is now concerned with the details of the iPad maker’s appeal of the verdict. Seems Apple slipped some fine-print in there.
Jul 24
Oyster branching out to web and all mobile devices
Digital Book World reports that eBook subscription service Oyster has added a web-based browser to its platform and is now available on all mobile devices.
Jul 23
Dutch eBook re-seller allowed to operate
PCWorld says that Dutch courts have allowed used eBook seller, Tom Kabinet, to operate. It seems the copyright rules get murky regarding eBook and paper versions of books where the latter are allowed to be resold.
Jul 22
eBook sales continue to rise in UK
Digital Book World reports that eBook sales are continuing to increase in the UK with sales up 10% over the same period last year.
Jul 21
Indie authors own Amazon eBooks
A very exciting post at the Telegraph says that one third of eBooks sold at Amazon are by Indie authors and publishers making them the leaders in market share at the online retail giant (accounting for 31 per cent of total daily ebook sales).
Jul 20
Apple could pay $400-million PLUS
According to eWeek, Apple has agreed to pay $400-million to consumers and $50-million to lawyers’ fees and payments to involved states if its appeal fails in regard to the guilty verdict levered against the iPad maker for price-fixing.
Jul 18
Amazon trying eBook Subscription Service
Gizmodo reports on Amazon’s new attempt to dominate the eBook marketplace with Kindle Unlimited. They’re offering “unlimited” eBook reads for a single $10 per month membership. This is a shot across the bow for eBook subscription services Oyster and Scribd, and extends Amazon’s exclusionary reading environment because this service will only list titles by authors and publishers that have agreed …
Jul 16
Aixa & the Scorpion: A Bruja Roja Story – eBook $2.99
NEW from Delia Fontana When the residents of Sangre de Cristo, a sleepy town on the border between Mexico and Texas, say no mas to the violence of the narcotrafficantes, they turn to town curandera Aixa Riley, a woman who is a citizen of two nations but also walks in two worlds. For Sangre de Cristo is a place where …
Jul 15
Top tablets compared
Street Wise Tech compares Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7 with Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 and the Lg G Pad 8.3.
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