Digital Book World continues to track the eBook best-seller price war that is brewing as the holiday season approaches with the average title reaching an all-time low.
Dec 10
Indie booksellers lose case against Amazon
Gigaom says a New York Federal judge has thrown out an almost year-old case brought by independent booksellers against Amazon, where they say the Kindle-maker conspired with publishers to create a monopoly whereby the Kindle eReader’s proprietary digital rights management (DRM) software forced consumers to purchase from Amazon exclusively.
Dec 09
Simon and Schuster UK launching The Hot Bed
GoodeReader has a post on Simon & Schuster UK’s launch of The Hot Bed, a genre-centered blog and social media site for fans of Romance and New Adult fiction.
Dec 08
Kindle Fire HDX reviewed at GeekWire
GeekWire reviews Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX tablet in time for the 2013 gift giving season.
Dec 07
eBook Revolution Update
BBC has a story about Yota’s new phone that boasts two screens. On one side the Android device offers the traditional full color screen, while on the other you’ll find an E Ink screen. The designers have incorporated the low-energy E Ink for static displays, but one wonders if you can read eBooks on it. There are a lot of people out there squinting to read eBooks on traditional (glaring) smartphones who might jump at this innovation.
The TechHive offers one of the first eBook buying guides we’ve seen for the 2013 gift giving season. (Video at the link.)
Digital Book World has eBook best-seller lists for the week ending Dec. 1, 2013.
MediaBistro reports that Scribd has gift cards available for eBook subscriptions.
According to a MetroNews Canada story, the Edmonton Public Library just got 2,000 eBooks richer.
Dec 05
Indie eBooks comprise 1/4 of Amazon Kindle Book Sales
The Guardian has a story on Amazon’s recent revelation that one quarter of its Kindle book sales were Indie eBooks.
Dec 04
Low eBook best-seller prices are on the way!
Digital Book World says that Amazon’s “12 Days of Deals in Books” will usher in similar low best-seller prices and sales across the eBook marketplace as the industry gears up for the 2013 Holiday Season.
Dec 03
HP launches four new Android tablets
GoodeReader has posted on HP’s launch of four new Android tablets with the multi-function eReading devices starting at $149.99.
Dec 02
Apple feels Court-appointed monitor is over-pricing.
ValueWalk reports that Apple is complaining about being over-charged by its court-appointed monitor after a guilty verdict against the iPad maker for price-fixing. What can you say…
Dec 01
Paperwhite and Glowlight compared.
Laptop Mag compares the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2013 to the Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight.
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