DigitalBookWorld quotes a Book Industry Study Group and Bowker report that puts the Amazon Kindle Fire just ahead of the Apple iPad as preferred eReading device.
Jul 31
Research in Motion prepares iPad challenger.
With Apple off prepping a smaller tablet to go up against the Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7, BGR says RIM is increasing the size of their PlayBook to challenge iPad.
Jul 30
Google Nexus 7 tablet reviewed at Time.
Time Techland spent 30 days with the Google Nexus 7 Tablet and came away impressed. (Thank god! Maybe we can read Google’s gigantic eBook library on it.)
Jul 29
Used eBooks for sale? Sounds fishy to me…
PublishersWeekly offers a story on a plan by ReDigi to sell used eBooks. I’m not sure the term “used” makes any sense in a digital world.
Jul 27
eBook Revolution update.
USAToday has posted on the most recent cash grab in digital publishing, the mini eBook. You pay a couple of bucks for a sample, condensed version or “out take” written to promote an upcoming novel.
GoodeReader reports on Barnes and Noble partnering with FastPencil to bring Indie book titles to physical stores.
The OttawaCitizen talks about the privacy concerns involved with eBook reading.
The Economist has a story on the interesting relationship that is developing between publishers and libraries in the digital age.
Jul 26
eBook prices should drop this fall.
DigitalBookWorld predicts the wild west in digital publishing this fall. That’s when eBook prices are expected to drop as the agency pricing model is abandoned by complicit publishers who have settled with the Department of Justice instead of fighting the anti-trust lawsuit levered against Apple and others.
Jul 25
News from Amazon and the US Department of Justice
PCMag reports on the five or six new tablet devices rumored to be on the way from Amazon.
iDownloadblog posted on the Department of Justice’s response to comments about the pending anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its gang of price-fixing publishers. The suit will go ahead.
Jul 24
Turf war ahead for Google Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire?
GoodeReader suggests that Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet selling out in U.S. and Canada could be a sign of dark days ahead for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. With both machines looking like long lost twins is there a death match ahead or healthy competition?
Jul 23
eBook Revolution Crime
Time offers more on the industry “push back” against the Department of Justice’s anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and its gang of price-fixing publishers. Apparently, connected individuals want the DOJ to drop the suit.
It amazes me that Apple, the implicated publishers and their political cronies are actually trying to sell the “we’re doing it for your own good” excuse. This publishing cartel suggests that they are only robbing us now with their agency model of pricing to keep industry leader Amazon from robbing us in the future.
It is unbelievable that they can present this absurd argument, and it hints at the arrogant and criminal thinking behind the price-fixing scheme.
Do they think we’re stupid? Robin Hood did not steal from the rich to pay for his Porsche.
Jul 22
Google Nexus 7 Tablet Reviewed
GoodeReader reviews the new Google Nexus 7 tablet. Video and pictures of the device at the link.
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