Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 17/03/2011 - 06:47 Orange has launched an ebook app for Android, with a "one-click buy" system which directly bills a user's Orange account. But the app will not be available on Apple's iPhone or iPad devices at the same time because of the well-reported changes to Apple's app purchasing guidelines. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#android app
#ebook app
#ipad devices
A start-up digital textbook platform has agreed terms with 12 publishers ahead of a 1st September... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#agreed terms
#1st september
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 at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#lending library
#local library
Members of the Amazon Prime subscription program will be able to read "Harry Potter'' ebooks for free through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, a move intended to encourage consumers to buy Kindle devices. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2012-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#harry potter
#kindle owners
#lending library
The Harry Potter ebooks are to be made available to borrow as part of the Kindle Owners'... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#kindle owners
Wow, what a swirl of good-news/bad-news last week for the media tablets aimed at the ereader market. As it turns out, the roller-coaster ride continues this week. comScore reported that the Kindle Fire from Amazon generated far more Internet activity in February than any other Android media... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ereader market
#kindle fire
#nook tablet
By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his "magical and revolutionary" new machines in San Francisco, traditional publishers had been overtaken by a collective delusion. They be ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#publishers don
#steve jobs
#traditional publishers
Hachette Livre has today (4th May) reduced the retail prices of ebooks to the level of the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hachette livre
#retail prices
The Pottermore ebook store sold £3m-worth of Harry Potter ebooks in its first month, the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
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 at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#warner bros
#ebook series
#film buffs
#originally appeared
#email thiscomments
The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app publishing. The news publisher launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store in mid-2011 ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ios app
#iphone app
#itunes store
Consumer ebook sales increased by 366% to £92m in 2011, with sales across all digital... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
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 at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ebook lawsuit
#justice department
#antitrust suit
Faber is releasing a series of six short ebooks, called Faber Forty-Fives, which each draw... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#short ebooks
Digital book sales have gone up 54% in the past year to £243m but total book sales have fallen by 2%. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
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 at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#educational ebooks
#barnes noble
#ebook market
#decade ago
The US print market has plunged 16% year on year in the first quarter of 2012, despite a record-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#sales slump
#print market
Microsoft invests $300m in Barnes and Noble's digital business, providing a boost to the Nook ebook reader. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#nook ebooks
#digital business
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 at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#educational ebooks
#barnes noble
#nook e-reader
#key focus
#nook app
The Booksellers Association's talks with ebook platform providers have intensified after... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#booksellers association
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Pearson PLC (PSON.LN), the publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, Friday produced a healthy rise in first-quarter revenue, but warned profit will be down in the first half of 2012 due to seasonal effects an ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#penguin books
#first-quarter revenue