Sat November 15 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 11/08 - 11/15 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for our weekly roundup of what's new and interesting in the world of e-books. E-Book General - News |
Family Library now available for Kindle eReaders |
04:35 AM by tubemonkey in E-Book General | News New Features for Kindle E-Readers Now Available
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Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute |
04:35 AM by tagboy in E-Book General | News http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/te...1&pgtype=Blogs
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Thu November 13 2014
Amazon Wins Auction for .Book Domain |
06:51 AM by SteveEisenberg in E-Book General | News http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...ok-domain.html
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Tue November 11 2014
Netherlands Amazon Store now online |
05:07 PM by Katsunami in E-Book General | News Synopsis: Starting next Wednesday, Amazon will start selling e-readers, 20.000 books in Dutch, and 3 million books in other languages in The Netherlands. Amazon hopes to be able to make a difference regarding their devices and apps functionality, as they think they will not be able to lower the price of e-books in The Netherlands. "Normally, the price of a book is decided by the publisher or the author," says Amazon. This will put Amazon in a very different position towards publishers, compared with the US, where Amazon is now fighting Hachette regarding e-book pricing. "Dutch publishers are modern, and have embraced digital reading, so negotiations went well, compared to other countries," says Ezequiel Szafir. Amazon will be selling around 20K books in Dutch; less than Bol.com, who is working together with Kobo, selling around 30K titles in Dutch. Amazon does sell a lot more titles in other languages; 3 million vs. 2 million. Almost 60% of Dutch e-books in the Netherlands are sold by Bol.com. Amazon will sell three Kindles: Books sold by Amazon can only be read on the Kindle. However, Dutch stores now normally sell EPUB ooks protected by a watermark only, which will make them readable on all (EPUB) devices and apps. It's not yet clear if other parts of Amazon, such as clothes an physical goods will be brought over to the Netherlands. |
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“Sony Developing New DRM to Make Used eBooks Viable” |
03:57 AM by disconnected in E-Book General | News http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-n...-ebooks-viable From the article -- “Sony plans on making their new eBook encryption system very appealing towards publishers and e-reader manufactures.” “ I have heard from a reputable source that Sony already has six publishers locked up and will be leveraging those relationship in order to establish new ones.” “…. define a clear path of ownership, this will allow people to sell a used eBook and it will actually physically disappear from the original owners account.”
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Mon November 10 2014
The guardian: Self-publishers are... |
09:18 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...elf-publishing
More at the source, including this:
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Sat November 08 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 11/01 - 11/08 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week. E-Book General - News |