The Harry Potter ebooks will go on sale exclusively from the Pottermore website from midday... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Hunger Games may have had a heck of an opening weekend, but let's not forget who the top box office spot belongs to: a certain bespectacled boy wizard. Roughly a decade and half after the publication of the first book in the series -- and after several months of promises -- the ultra-popular... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
It didn't take a Hogwarts magician to know this day would eventually come. The bookstore feature of J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website went live Tuesday, enabling English-language readers to buy the digital editions of all seven Harry Potter novels—and the audiobook editions—from anywhere in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The "Harry Potter" series, which has conquered mediums from books to movies, is finally available in ebook format. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pottermore was due to go live in October, but it missed its launch. The is expected to open to the public early next month. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department's top antitrust official says she won't stand by quietly if companies make agreements with rivals on price, signaling a stern stance as the department conducts a high-profile probe into electronic-book publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobiles24 has removed all ebooks from its website after Hachette UK obtained a court order... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
An advisory body to the French prime minister has predicted that ebooks are about to shake up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Publishers Association is calling for the government to abolish the 20% VAT rate on ebooks... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Evanston, IL—Agate Publishing Inc., the Evanston, Illinois-based independent press, has entered into a partnership with the Chicago Tribune to produce ebooks created from Chicago Tribune-owned content. The ebooks will appear as pa ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fewer than one in ten students purchase ebooks, while 88% of undergraduates still use printed... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steve Jobs left behind a legal mess for Apple chief executive Tim Cook. Decisions the former CEO made when brokering ebook distribution deals haunt Apple, as a civil price-fixing case moves forward and the specter of a federal antitrust investigation approaches. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rowan Pelling, former editor of Erotic Review and Telegraph Review, and Tom Tivnan, features editor for The Bookseller, discuss the rise in popularity of ebooks particularly in genres such as erotica. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Guild President Scott Turow charges in an open letter about ebook pricing: “Our government may be on the verge of killing real competition in order to save the appearance of competition.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple along with five ebook publishers must address all the European Commission's antitrust concerns before any settlement can be reached warned the European... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
European Union antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia says that the Competition Commission is open to a settlement with publishers in the increasingly high-profile ebook price fixing case, but only if the companies address key regulatory issues. Almunia says regulators are coordinating with the Justice... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
(Bloomberg) - News Corp.'s HarperCollins and four other publishers probed by European Union need to address regulatory concerns before they can settle the antitrust case, the European Union's competition commissioner said. Joaquin Almunia, the antitrust chief, told reporters Monday that a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
While Apple and book publishers may find themselves on the precipice of an antitrust lawsuit from the Justice Department, filings in a concurrent civil class-action lawsuit obtained by BetaNews indicate that Apple has already admitted to two of the most damaging allegations in the case that the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department has told Apple and five major publishers that it's planning to sue them for fixing ebook prices. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department is warning Apple and its publisher partners they may have to answer for their pricing model. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]