Amazon has updated the iOS version of its Kindle e-reading app to v3.9. Via the app’s Library Search, users should now be able to search through Amazon’s catalog of free book samples and download the content straight to a device. Amazon doesn’t allow direct purchases of books in iOS however, as Apple claims a 30 […]
The Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Apple over e-book pricing is “bizarre,” said Apple lawyer Orin Snyder yesterday during the case’s opening arguments. Snyder went on to call the allegations “sinister interference” based on nebulous evidence, and complain about pre-trial comments by Judge Denise Cote inferring that the DoJ was likely to win. “When […]
Apple is today headed to trial to defend itself in the antitrust case brought against it by the US Justice Department over e-book pricing, Bloomberg notes. The company is accused of conspiring with major publishers — Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Pearson, and HarperCollins — to artificially inflate the prices of e-books over the $10 […]
Google has updated its ebook app for Android with a feature that reads books aloud for the user. Now, Google Play Books (Google Play) also adds the ability to pinch or double-tap to zoom, text-editing features for notes, as well as recommending other titles within the Play bookstore, using the already-owned book collection and popular […]
The group of authors suing Google over the search engine’s book digitization project has asked a US Federal District Court in New York to force payment of $750 per book it scanned for distribution. The Authors Guild spearheading the suit, led by president Scott Turow, argues that Google’s effort does not constitute “fair use” under […]
Amazon has taken almost 5,000 Kindle e-books from distributor Independent Publishers Group (IPG) off its web store after a disagreement between the two on renewal terms. IPG wouldn’t agree to Amazon’s new terms, and was warned of the consequences, IPG President Mark Suchomel told PaidContent. The distributor’s offer to Amazon is the same it has […]
Apple late Tuesday gave readers an important update to iBooks. The 1.5 update catches up to some rival apps with a nighttime mode that switches to gray-on-black for reading with little or no light. Full-screen is also an option for those who want even more text on the screen, such as a children’s book. Other […]
Media tablets are on pace to become a ubiquitous, mass-market, consumer product faster than any-other previously released, technological device. The powerful implications of this rapid adoption on publication paper markets is the subject of a new study The Impact of Media Tablets on Publication Paper Markets, published by RISI, the leading information provider for the […]
For over two years, Amazon has been offering a wide selection of free Kindle reading apps that enable customers to “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” as Amazon likes to say. The platforms include Kindles, iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, PCs, Macs, Android phones and tablets, and BlackBerrys. Well today they have change the game by using the […]
Kobo on Tuesday set out a plan for an HTML5 e-reading app to circumvent Apple’s app purchasing rules. The app won’t be a direct replacement but will let iPad and iPhone users buy directly from the same interface they use to read books. Kobo made clear it felt Apple was artificially limiting competition and hurting […]
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