Sony Electronics are expected to announce on Thursday plans to sell ebooks in a standard ePub format making them compatible with other ebook reading devices. Ebooks generally have some restrictions built into the software to prevent multiple coping and file sharing. Sony look to have struck an agreement with Adobe in this regard. Amazon play…
BookDepository US Has Arrived – Stand And Deliver, For Free!
One piece of valuable news in the book world we did not touch on last week was the launch of online book retailer, BookDepository.com, the American sister website of the highly successful UK company BookDepository.co.uk which itself has been going for the last five years. In some ways, considering that self-published books are often bought…
Sony Step It Up With New E-Readers And Pricing Point
Sony Electronics is launching two new ebook readers in late August to replace their 505 and 700 models. The Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition will sell at $199 and $299. These readers now come in at or below Amazon’s Kindle retail price of $299. In a further significant move to step up the…
Amazon’s Orwellian Gaff Results in Filed Lawsuit
I suppose it had to happen. Well, following Amazon’s ‘hand of god’ reaching into the homes of Kindle owners last week to take back ebook copies of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’, the Seattlepi.com website reports yesterday that the first case of someone filing a class-action lawsuit against Amazon in the US District Court…
Booksurge US – (see CreateSpace)
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Barnes & Noble Set To Enter Ebook Market
Barnes & Noble, the largest bookseller in the USA is set to go head to head with Amazon in the ebook market. The ebookstore launch is set to go ahead later this summer with a standard price rivalling Amazon’s $9.99 marker. First year sales projections for the retailer are aiming at one million titles and…
Amazon Revise Systems After Big Brother Debacle
Amazon have been forced to revise their systems which allowed them to removed purchased and downloaded copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from customer’s Kindle devices. The big brother styled swoop of Amazon’s arm happened last Friday and has led to a considerable on line debate and backlash against the giant internet retailer.…
Amazon Thought Police Leave Their Calling Card
Have an Amazon Kindle? Bought an ebook version of Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ or ‘1984’? Chances are you will not find those books on your Kindle today. You see, during the night, when you were tucked up safe and sound in bed, the Amazon Thought Police crept into your electronic world and snatched these books back.…
Amazon Look To Christmas 2009 For Kindle UK
Amazon is putting the final pieces in place to allow a launch of the Kindle ebook reading device on the UK market. Amazon is understood to be in ‘advanced’ negotiations with a UK mobile operator according to this article in Mobile Today Magazine. This deal if completed will provide connectivity allowing users to download on…
Bezos On The Future of Amazon’s Kindle
Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos has been speaking about plans to expand the Kindle reader across other ebook formats. Bezos spoke recently at Wired magazine’s ‘Disruptive technology’ conference held in New York and also to the New York Times newspaper. Recently Amazon released the larger DX device, which supports Adobe PDF, unlike its smaller Kindle sibling.…