ConsumerReports has a story on the U.S. Department of Justice investigating eBook pricing citing possible “anticompetitive practices involving e-book sales.” (I think everyone’s catching onto the inflated pricing, and price fixing.)
The Winnipeg Free Press wonders whether eBook readers still judge books by their covers.
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Amazon has made an appeal to its many indie Kindle authors to take part in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. According to Geekwire, this can be attributed to the big publishers’ reluctance to climb aboard the KDP Select service that allows Amazon Prime members the ability to borrow the eBooks in the program free of charge without a due date. While it appears some Indie authors are taking the plunge there is a clause in the contract demanding Amazon exclusivity of participating titles for 90 days. (True, the participant profit sharing looks good on paper, but ‘free’ is an awfully low price to sell your digital rights–even temporarily.)
