Episode 74 – Baldur Bjarnason Special Guest Baldur Bjarnason News Front-lit Kindle is coming Apple tried to have class-action lawsuit dismissed, judge says “no” Interesting information coming into view on the Apple/agency model class action suit More info also on the DOJ case Verizon fighting Wiley over the release of user data in eBook piracy [...]
Episode 70 – Metadata with Laura Dawson Guest Laura Dawson News Google Books end retail partner program New Nook lights up Antitrust suit is filed http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/justice-files-suit-against-apple-and-publishers-over-e-book-pricing/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/doj-files-suit-against-apple-and-5-publishers Interesting analysis Big Six publishers apparently not happy about new Amazon terms, may not renew contracts http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/big-six-publishers-decline-to-renew-contract-with-amazon-over-unfavorable-terms http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/10/big-six-publishers-refuse-to-sign-new-contracts-with-amazon/ Topic Metadata Feedback Quentin Fottrell Tom Semple Scott Johns Tre’ [...]
Episode 69 – Welcome Back Joshua News Kindle for iOS updated to 3.0 We can no longer say that fixed-layout is not epub 3 And samples, for those of you with an epub 3 reader Wow, the possibility of fake reviews on Amazon. Who knew. Kindle Fire gets an update F+W charges head first into [...]