By Tim Conneally, Betanews The Android Market has never had any specific ban on carrying and selling straight up text documents, and users could search through the market and find apps that were, in effect, standalone ebooks. Now, however, there is a section dedicated specifically to ebooks which currently features around 500 titles from publishers such as Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, W.W. Norton and Co., Hachette, and more.The URL for the site, market.android.com/books, was discovered by Android Guys last week, and the site noted that URLs for /music, and /movies worked and resolved to the Android Market. Thursday is the first day the /books URL began landing on a real market page. Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2010 Continue reading at 'Betanews'
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Government-appointed panel to consider what role can ebooks play in our libraries in future. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Morris Publishing Group is establishing a partnership with the local digital marketing team of magazine and newspaper publishing firm Hearst. Morris announced today that it reached an agreement with LocalEdge, a Hearst Media Services company, to re ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spain's increasing involvement in the Eurozone crisis, along with government austerity... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comixology, a digital comics distributor and marketplace, marks its fifth anniversary this year as it emerges as the clear leader in the digital comics space. The company’s Guided View technology, a much imitated function on its Comics by Comixology app, which allows readers to read digital... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple and four major publishers have offered to let retailers such as Amazon sell ebooks at a discount to settle an EU antitrust investigation into their pricing deals and avoid possible fines. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo and Amazon have unveiled new tablets, but are they playing a game they can't win? Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple and four major ebook publishers have offered retailers such as Amazon.com the option to set their own prices for ebooks for the next two years in a bid to end an antitrust investigation in the European Union. The European Commission launched the investigation into allegations of cartel... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple Inc., the world's biggest technology company, and four publishers offered to overhaul pricing models for digital books to allay European Union concerns that they blocked competition. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of digital fiction books increased by 188% in value terms in the first half of the year,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Feminist Press will be publishing a Pussy Riot ebook later this month, the publisher has announced. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just four days after a federal judge approved a settlement in the ebooks price fixing case, HarperCollins has already started discounts. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wow. Judge Denise Cote certainly knows how to put a spring in the step of mega corporations. Mere days have passed since she ordered HarperCollins to let retailers to set their own ebook prices, and yet already Kindle bestsellers from that publisher are selling for around $9.99 -- in some cases... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has released a free ebook, No, It's Us Too!, today (11th September)... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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American e-tailers including Amazon.com have begun selling HarperCollins ebooks at discounted... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A judge approved on Thursday a Justice Department settlement with three publishers accused of conspiring with Apple Inc and other publishers to push up the prices of electronic books. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's a big day in the world of ebooks, and not just for the crew at Amazon. Today, Judge Denise Cote approved settlement terms for three of the publishers accused by the Justice Department of price fixing. Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins each agreed to settle with the... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Playboy announces that it is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a 50-interviews-in-50-days ebook series. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A judge has approved the settlement in the US of three publishers accused of conspiring to fix... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The top US regional book markets have seen print sales drop year on year at a far greater rate... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Just hours ahead of Amazon's debut of a new Kindle tablet on Thursday, Kobo, the ebook company that can be thought of as "Canada's Kindle" debuted a new color Android tablet called the Kobo Arc. Kobo Arc is the company's second Android tablet, following up on the Kobo Vox which debuted around... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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