The complaint says that Jobs was enlisted to sell high-ranking officials in the publisher’s parent company on the wisdom of the proposed pricing scheme. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple was unable to have an antitrust lawsuit over the price of ebooks dismissed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A dozen books a year? Some writers are accelerating the pace in this brave new world of ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A start-up digital textbook platform has agreed terms with 12 publishers ahead of a 1st September... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon will never run out of copies of Harry Potter ebooks from its Lending Library. Thanks to a new agreement with Pottermore, on June 19th the entire seven-book collection will be among the 140,000 plus you can grab, provided, of course, that you're an Amazon Prime member. If you've forked... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Harry Potter ebooks are to be made available to borrow as part of the Kindle Owners'... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pottermore ebook store sold £3m-worth of Harry Potter ebooks in its first month, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Livre has today (4th May) reduced the retail prices of ebooks to the level of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
All hail the ebook! Seriously, if it weren't for this marvelous literary development, try saying with a straight face that you wouldn't at least take pause before adding a new title to your collection. Numbers are in from The Publisher's Association -- a group of 120 companies across the trade... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
From time to time, we see movie studio Warner Bros. bring forth ways to give its oldies-but-goodies a longer life span. On this occasion, Warner's launching a novel eBook series titled "Inside the Script." The new release will give movie buffs a deeper look into a handful of the studio's films,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department's antitrust suit over eBook price fixing has is as deeply befuddling as it is important to the future of publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital book sales have gone up 54% in the past year to £243m but total book sales have fallen by 2%. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is releasing a series of six short ebooks, called Faber Forty-Fives, which each draw... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ben Hur and Casablanca are among the film scripts to be released as ebooks for the first time by Warner Bros. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Byliner.com, a digital publishing company, withdrew the ebook “After Friday Night Lights” by Buzz Bissinger from Amazon because of a pricing dispute involving a promotional giveaway. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft invests $300m in Barnes and Noble's digital business, providing a boost to the Nook ebook reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobody partners, or negotiates deals, like Microsoft. That's evident from today's stunning agreement with Barnes & Noble, which is sure to turn the ebook market on its head. The two will jointly invest in Newco, temporary name for ebook venture that incorporates B&N's digital and College... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are announcing a new partnership to develop and sell educational ebooks on the Nook e-reader. Microsoft is investing $300 million in the subsidiary, while B&N will own the remaining 82 percent of it. (The new operation is being provisionally called "Newco,"... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Coming up first: A Metro-style Nook e-reader app for Windows 8 that will be available to U.S. and international users. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science fiction publisher Tor UK has announced it will stop using the technology that restricts copying from all of its ebooks, in a possible precedent for the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]