29 posts and columns on eBooks

The Apple/Amazon Conspiracy That Never Happened

in Media on April 11 at 8:49 am PT

Apple competes ferociously with Amazon. But the feds say Cupertino considered a different strategy, where Apple would rule music and movies, and Amazon would rule e-books. Really?
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Incendio! Pottermore E-Book Sales on Fire.

in Media on April 4 at 1:52 pm PT

$1.5 million worth of Harry Potter books sold in Pottermore’s first three days online.
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Apple Tweaks iBook Language: Your Content Is Your Content

in Media on February 3 at 12:08 pm PT

A couple weeks after introducing its new iBooks Author app, Apple has clarified legal language about what happens to the books users create with the software. Apple continues to insist that users can only sell electronic books in the iBook format via its iTunes store. But it makes it clear that the content of those books can be sold in any other format, without Apple’s approval.

Apple’s New Math. Or: Why a $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book.

in Media on January 19 at 8:45 am PT

It’s like the old “make it up on volume” joke. Except this time it might work, if students and school districts play along.
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Apple Unveils iPad Textbook Plan

in Media on January 19 at 6:25 am PT

At a special event in New York City, Apple rolls out a new textbook initiative and the partnerships to support it.
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Amazon Makes More Than $100 Off Each Kindle Fire

in News on January 19 at 4:45 am PT

Each Kindle Fire generates a lifetime operating income of $136, says RBC.
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Openmargin Hopes to Be More Than Social E-Reading (Video)

in Media on November 18, 2011 at 12:30 pm PT

Notes in the margins of e-books could be the next platform for social interaction. At least that’s what Amsterdam-based start-up Openmargin is hoping.
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The Amazon of Japan Buys the Kindle of Canada

in Commerce on November 8, 2011 at 2:09 pm PT

Third place in the e-reader race still takes home a sizable prize.
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Subtext Livens Up E-Books With Author Commentary and Social Reading

in Social on October 25, 2011 at 12:19 am PT

A new social reading app called Subtext launches today on the iPad, with a selection of books laden with annotations from authors and researchers.
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Thanks, Netflix! You Too, Amazon! Why CBS Loves the Digital Rerun Business.

in Media on August 2, 2011 at 2:20 pm PT

Digital distributors want more content, and Les Moonves and company are happy to oblige — as long as it’s not stuff they’re still putting on TV.
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Amazon Tries Taking the Kindle to School, Again, With Textbook Rentals

in Media, July 18, 2011 at 6:33 am PT

New Way to Check Out eBooks

in The Digital Solution, February 22, 2011 at 4:21 pm PT

Another eBook Store? Yep! But This One's From Google.

in Media, December 6, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

Barnes & Noble: Nook "Single Best-Selling Product"; CEO Rebuffs iPad Fears

in News, February 23, 2010 at 9:18 am PT