Sep 28
PaidContent reports on the technical issues that have hampered the digital release of J.K.Rowling’s new book The Casual Vacancy.
DigitalBookWorld says that librarians are running out of patience with the eBook lending debate.
GoodeReader says Overdrive library eBook lending platform is now available for Nook.
ExpertReviews looks at the Prestigio Nobile PER5162 eBook Reader.
Sep 27
ReadWriteWeb offers a look behind the scenes of the new Barnes and Noble Nook HD tablets and highlights a digital content ecosystem, a Microsoft Alliance and hints at the direction for the June B&N/Microsoft partnering.
Sep 26
Reuters reports Barnes & Noble is making a move into the tablet market it helped create by launching lighter ($199) 7-inch Nook HD and ($269) 9-inch Nook HD+ tablet devices. More on the “eBook Readers” and expanded content services at the link.
Sep 26
TechFragments compares the new ‘light-assisted’ Â Kobo Glo and the Kindle Paperwhite E Ink eBook Readers.
Sep 25
GoodeReader reports that Kobo is bringing its eReaders and eBooks to Portugal. Yet another expansion for this global competitor in the eBook Revolution.
Sep 24
As the eBook Revolution stands ready for another explosion of growth (see US DOJ anti-trust lawsuit settlement. expect lower eBook prices.) Metro addresses some of the industry’s (shopworn) concerns about its impact on publishing.
Sep 23
GoodeReader posted on fledgling digital publisher One Bite Reads’ plan to launch mini-novels. (Aren’t those novellas?)
I guess as long as they have a “mini” price.
Sep 21
PaidContent reports that Apple and co-conspirator publishers have subpoenaed Amazon in the ongoing Department of Justice price-fixing anti-trust lawsuit.
GoodeReader celebrates new children’s digital reading apps.
TheLethbridgeHerald updates us with this week’s story where Wal-Mart dumps Amazon Kindle eReader sales.
GoodeReader continues with a breakdown of an Aptara and Publisher’sWeekly survey on the status of eBooks in the publishing industry.
Sep 20
GoodeReader reports on a story from overseas that says the European Commission is dissolving the Agency Model of pricing instituted some years ago by Apple, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan and Hachette Livre because it was a “concerted practice” to raise eBook prices and stop lower prices from being available across Europe.
This is similar to the US Department of Justice’s suit against Apple and co-conspirators, except in the European case, Apple seems to be complying with the dismantling initiative, something they’re fighting stateside.
With the Agency Model going into remission this forces publishers to offer their titles to booksellers with a starting price attached. The booksellers are then free to discount them as they wish or as the market demands.
Sep 19
Technocrati speculates on the future of the eBook Revolution and ponders the past in a post looking forward to an eBook marketplace unfettered by the restrictive (and illegal) agency model of price fixing.
With cheaper eBooks comes a great future for readers, writers and publishers alike.
