The Huffington Post reports on the way publishers are putting the screws to public libraries that want to offer popular eBooks.
Category: eBook Stores
A growing list of web sites that sell eBooks. Pros and Cons...
Jul 19
Digital Publishing Headlines
Digital Book World says a decline in Hunger Games sales is impacting Scholastic profits. The Huffington Post talks about smart authors using the web for success. According to The Verge, Sony Pictures Television is bringing its interactive Breaking Bad eBook exclusively to iPad. MacWorld suggests Apple could take the market lead on removing DRM (digital …
Jul 18
U.K. Women own majority of tablets in that country.
The BBC says that as of May, women in the U.K. owned the majority of tablet computers having adopted 52% of the devices sold there. That’s a marked increase from last year when U.K. women owned 43%.
Jul 17
Read Kobo books on your BlackBerry
Techfragments reports that a Kobo eReading App for BlackBerry has been released.
Jul 16
First quarter 2013 showed modest increase to eBook sales
Digital Book World posted that eBook sales showed a modest increase for the first quarter of 2013.
Jul 15
Digital Comic sales tripled in 2012
Comic Book Resources reports that sales of Digital Comics almost tripled in 2012.
Jul 14
Will Amazon dominate?
The Globe and Mail ponders the future after Apple and its publishers in crime are found guilty of price-fixing. Will this create the free market that assures the future of eBooks or will it unchain the Amazon giant’s ambitions to dominate? It’s too early to tell, but I’d rather see the eBook Revolution grow to …
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 11
More on the Apple eBook Price-fixing Conspiracy Guilty Verdict
Paid Content expands on the guilty verdict Apple received for its role in an eBook price-fixing conspiracy, and makes some predictions about its impact on the eBook Revolution.
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 …
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