Gardners to launch color tablet in the UK.

According to GoodeReader Gardners Books will launch its own affordable (£59) color eReading tablet in the UK. Look for it in October.

It will be 2013 before eBook settlement reaches your pocket.

PaidContent updates us on the eBook settlement between states and offending publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster) but says the personal payback will be delayed until 2013 when a February hearing  concludes.

Kobo moves into Brazil eBook market

PaidContent reports on Kobo’s deal with Brazilian bookstore chain Livraria Cultura that will bring Kobo eBook Readers and eBooks to the Brazilian eBook market this fall.

Digital Publishing Update

PublishersWeekly reports that the majority of young adult books are purchased by 30-44 year olds.

GoodeReader says that print-on-demand technology is now available in retail locations.

TheIrishTimes posted on the publishing challenges in the eBook Revolution.

Macleans.ca has a story on the coming eBook Boom to be precipitated by lower prices for eBook titles and affordable eReaders.

Newspapers struggle to adapt. Did they delay too long?

GoodeReader offers us a post on the struggling newspaper industry in the days of digital publishing. While they seem shocked that print ad revenues are down, they should not be disheartened that digital ad revenues fell short of expectations, too.

Like the book publishing industry, the newspaper industry has to rethink its bottom line and its expectations if it wants to compete across media platforms and orient itself for the age of tablets and E Ink. It’s an adjustment period where the old rules do not apply.

Time reviews Amazon Kindle Fire HD

Time reviews the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and while the hands-on experience was positive, changes are predicted before the affordable tablet ships.

eBook prices begin to drop.

It has started. The prices are coming down. GoodeReader posted on HarperCollins being one of the  first publishers to sign new deals with eBook sellers Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., and already the prices are starting to drop.

A dollar back = meh. Lower eBook Prices = YAY!

Technabob shows us that the Department of Justice brokered eBook settlement with publishers (who are not admitting guilt for their involvement in Apple price-fixing scam) doesn’t look like much of a punishment.

The dollar back on eBook purchases will not feel as satisfying as the drop in eBook prices that is heralded by the settlement.

I think we’re about to see the eBook Revolution shift into high gear again.

CNN compares Kindle HD and Apple iPad.

CNN offers the first of many Amazon Kindle HDApple iPad comparisons that are soon to clog the information highway.

Time offers a list of 21 Questions about Amazon’s new Kindle devices.

eBook Revolution Updates

The New York Times Blog has a story that is bound to start an industry-wide eBook pricing war. Judge Denise L. Cote approved a settlement between the Department of Justice and publishers complicit in the Apple eBook price-fixing anti-trust lawsuit.

The settlement should completely open the playing field and kick-start a hot new digital publishing industry that has been straining at the leash to explode across the mainstream. Many believe the high price of eBooks has been the only argument against eBook Reader purchases, and was keeping the market from wholesale adoption of digital titles.

GoodeReader reviews the new Kobo Arc tablet. Pics and video at the link.

TechnologyReview says that British grocery giant Tesco is getting into the eBook business.