Two graduates of Hawaii's Iolani School, Matt Sullivan and Landen Buckley, have taken on the photo book market with their StoryTree Inc. app SimplePrints. Unlike online photo services such as Shutterfly and Snapfish, SimplePrints was designed for mobile devices to make photo books, clearing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of ebooks, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying ebook releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an ebook price-fixing lawsuit.The U.S. Department of Justice in an... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple will have to pay three Chinese authors a total of $118,000 for stocking their books in its App Store without a proper say-so, according to China Daily. A court ruled that it was Apple's job to verify that third-party uploads met copyright requirements and that it had the means to do so... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble may have saved most of the limelight today for in-app purchasing on Nook hardware, but it's not leaving other platforms by the wayside. Its Nook 3.4 update for iOS focuses heavily on visuals, with new support for both Nook Comics as well as "HD" magazines on Retina... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
When the iPad is seemingly tailor-made for books of all kinds, you'd think Audible would leap on the opportunity to produce an optimized audiobook app -- it wasn't quite so eager, as customers have since discovered. Apple tablet owners won't have to perpetually lean on the stock music app for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Magazine publishers have more directly embraced tablets over more than a year as it became clearer that they were boosting the bottom line. We may be witnessing a watershed moment today, however. Hearst has started publishing issues for 22 of its magazines in the iOS Newsstand days before their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has made a big selling point of X-ray for Kindle books -- but, not surprisingly, for its own platforms first. iOS readers can reclaim some equal footing today now that a Kindle 3.5 update is bringing X-ray to their devices. The addition lets iPad and iPhone bookworms see a map of where... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 27/09/2011 - 09:15 Penguin has released Jamie Oliver's Food Guide app for Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, with the guide now available for £2.99 from the App store. The app accompanies Oliver's latest title, Jamie's Great Britain,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apples App Store has added another product to its portfolioMartha Steward Living Omnimedia, Inc. announced the launch of a digital subscription plan for the iPad editions of both Martha Stewart Living and Everyday Food magazines. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The digital edition of Readers Digest is now available for purchase through the App Store, the publisher announced today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the first half of 2011, the magazine industry was abuzz with news of the latest digital editions, Apples subscription mandates for publishers selling their wares through the App Store and those stepping away from Apples model to go the HTML route for app offerings. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has changed its rules for in-app subscriptions and content access in the App Store. Reports are indicating that the most significant change is access to content purchased outside of the app without a corresponding in-app subscription requirement, and a concomitant relaxation of pricing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Christine Cook, head of sales and advertising at The Daily, used a panel discussion at Internet Week to hawk subscriptionsmaking one wonder just how much the outsized attention News Corp. is getting for its daring iPad-based newspaper experiment is translating into paid circulation. When... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has officially rolled out its long awaited subscription-model for content publishers in the App Store. Under the plan, if subscribers come to a publisher's app organically through the App store, Apple gets a 30 percent share. If the publisher brings a new or existing subscriber to the App,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple kept mum on its highly anticipated digital subscription plan during a press conference today at the Guggenheim in New York City announcing News Corp.'s new tablet publication The Daily (which is available in the App Store as of noon Eastern), but News Corp. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has reportedly rejected Sony's reader app from the App store for selling content within the app and letting customers make purchases outside the App store (such as within the Sony Reader Store, according to The New York Times. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has moved to block third party app developers from selling content, such as ebooks, outside of the app store, leading to speculation that it wants a cut of digital purchases, even when they are made via apps such as the Kindle app. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony said Apple had rejected its ebook app because it did not route book sales through Apples system. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]