Category: eReaders

Machines that read eBooks, Business eDocuments, ePapers, etc.

Reading alternate file formats on Kindle Fire.

TidBITS has a post for Kindle Fire owners who want to read EPUB, PDF and Mobipocket format eBooks on their Android (os) device.

The Future for eBooks!

TechCrunch offers an entertaining and optimistic view of the eBook Revolution and the future to come.

eBook News Update

TheStar.com says that Canadian lawyers have now joined in the suit against price-fixer Apple and publishing co-conspirators. Our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to Rocket Bomber where writer Matt Blind outlines some of the reasons that a bricks and mortar store beats Amazon’s digital might. According to the Financial Post Apple wants to go to …

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The parties to the eBook price-fixing law-suit take their positions.

Prospectus News updates us on the early positioning in the U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit for price-fixing against Apple and publishers Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, the Hachette Book Group, Pearson and Macmillan. Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have agreed to settle with the JOD. Hachette and HarperCollins is prepared to pay back about $51-million …

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Are eBook Wars Ahead? Maybe but there will be affordable eBooks too.

The Atlantic predicts the eBook Revolution may be headed toward a Book War as a result of the U.S. Justice Department’s anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its price-fixing co-conspirators. While it may get rough for a time it is only going to get better for the consumer. Even with the dirty dealings and artificially high prices, …

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DRM is doomed and lower eBook prices are slow to appear.

ZDNet tells us about the future of digital rights management (DRM) for eBooks. (Will it go the way of the dinosaur?) PaidContent reports on what readers should expect now that the U.S. Justice Department is suing Apple and co-conspirators. Lower eBook prices? Not yet…

Amazon Kindle sets sights on Japan

The Daily Yomiuri Online reports on Amazon’s ongoing plans to launch a Japan-based eBook service for Kindle by the end of 2012.

Apple claims it did nothing wrong.

CNetNews offers us Apple’s initial response to all of this anti-trust talk, and suggests that we might be looking at years of litigation if the IT innovator decides to fight the US Department of Justice.

April 13 News Update

DailyMail reports that paperback sales have dropped 25% in a year. Mark of the eBook? NPR gives some background related to the Apple anti-trust lawsuit and says price-fixing is not new to publishing. The New York Times suggests Apple will not be the biggest loser in the anti-trust lawsuit. The CBC says the Apple lawsuit may …

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More on the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Apple and Co.

Time digs deeper into the U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its publishing conspirators. This illegal action was a thinly disguised attack on the eBook Revolution that undermines consumer confidence, seriously weakens the argument that publishers had tried to put forth that Amazon is the evil empire, and if there is justice, should …

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