{"id":11622,"date":"2012-08-31T14:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T19:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11622"},"modified":"2012-09-03T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T14:38:43","slug":"ebook-revolution-update-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11622","title":{"rendered":"eBook Revolution Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Publishers agree to $69-million payout.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/261670\/ebook_publishers_reach_69_million_settlement_with_states.html\" target=\"_self\">PCWorld<\/a><\/strong> says eBook publishers <strong>Hachette Book Group<\/strong>, <strong>HarperCollins Publishers<\/strong> and <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong> have agreed to pay <strong>$69-million<\/strong> to <strong>54 US state, (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">correction: districts and territories<\/span>)<\/strong> as part of their settlement and penalty for being co-conspirators in the <strong>Apple Agency Model price-fixing scheme<\/strong> that put them, and others in the crosshairs of a <strong>US Department of Justice<\/strong> anti-trust lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Kindle Fire 2 to Launch Sept. 6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/aug\/31\/kindle-fire-tablet-launch-amazon\" target=\"_self\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong> reports that <strong>Amazon <\/strong>will launch<strong> Kindle Fire 2 tablet<\/strong> on <strong>Thursday, September 6<\/strong> after the first \u00c2\u00a0(and now discontinued) version&#8217;s sales top <strong>6-million units<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Sony Xperia Tablet\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/tablet-slates\/ifa-2012-sony-xperia-tablet-s-revealed\/\" target=\"_self\">GoodeReader<\/a><\/strong> looks at the new <strong>Sony Xperia Tablet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a title=\"Kobo gets foot in door of U.S. bricks and mortar stores.\" href=\"http:\/\/arts.nationalpost.com\/2012\/08\/30\/kobo-partners-with-independent-bookstores-to-ramp-up-presence-in-u-s\/\" target=\"_self\">The National Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong> posted on <strong>Kobo&#8217;s <\/strong>shrewd move to ink deals with <strong>Indie bookstores<\/strong> in the U.S. that will keep the struggling shops relevant by providing eBook titles, eReaders and tech.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"B&amp;N's Nook to cross the pond.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/news\/47230\/barnes-noble-nook-foyles-blackwells-argos\" target=\"_self\">Pocket-Lint<\/a><\/strong> tells us that <strong>Barnes and Noble<\/strong> is moving its <strong>Nook eReader<\/strong> into the UK market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCWorld says eBook publishers Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers and Simon &amp; Schuster have agreed to pay $69-million to 54 US state, (correction: districts and territories) as part of their settlement and penalty for being co-conspirators in the Apple Agency Model price-fixing scheme that put them, and others in the crosshairs of a US Department &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11622\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11622"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11650,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622\/revisions\/11650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}