Facebook today took over Push Pop Press. It is thought that Facebook has bought Push Pop Press for its design expertise. The company was founded by two former Apple engineers, Kimon Tsinteris and Mike Matas. Tsinteris worked on mapping and location services for Apple, while Matas is a user interface specialist. Matas is credited with […]
Amazon started off the week with a new service in hopes to corner school book market. Kindle Textbook Rental lets students rent e-books for as little 30 days and as many as 360. The rental fees change on the term length and theoretically save as much as 80 percent of the price. The rented textbooks will work on any platform, […]
Some Random House books are beginning to appear in the US iBookstore, a report says. While only a few are present so far — Randon House Webster’s Pocket Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation being a given example — the shift indicates that Random House has indeed made concessions and become the last major publisher to support […]
Stieg Larsson’s, Dan Brown’s and John Grisham’s novels maybe coming to Apple’s iBooks. Random House announced Monday that it had agreed to use the “agency model” required to sell books through Apple’s store. Random House had been the last holdout among the six top New York publishers to accept the new system, which gives publishers […]
Google today launched One Pass at a Berlin event today. The subscription system gives readers a single sign-on to get access to digital magazines and newspapers while also deliberately loosening the restrictions on publishers. Unlike on Apple’s store, publishers will still have the option of giving away free digital access with print subscriptions or using more […]
Amazon today claimed that the third generation Kindle is setting records as it has started shipping two days ahead of schedule. The e-reader is now Amazon’s fastest-selling Kindle ever in the one month of pre-orders. The Kindle e-book store is estimated to have 61% of the w-book market. the new Kindle also assumed the top […]
Amazon has large lead over Apple and other in the US e-book market, an analysis by RR Bowker found. The group disputes claims by Amazon and said Amazon’s Kindle Store controlled 61 percent of e-book downloads – 10 to 20 percent less than Amazon claims. Barnes & Noble’s store has 20 percent where Sony has […]
Amazon.com has announced new features for “Kindle for PC.” Kindle for PC now enables customers to edit notes and marks, experience full-screen reading mode, change the background color, and control the brightness of the screen. “We have been working hard to enhance our Kindle application experiences and are thrilled to be adding new features to […]
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