Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

Episode 97 News Amazon & pubs being sued by indie bookstores in NY http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/drm-lawsuit-independent-bookstores-amazon_n_2727519.html http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/02/20/indie-bookstores-file-anti-trust-lawsuit-against-amazon-big-6-pubishers Cory Doctorow’s take on it Yotaphone to launch in Russia Kindle Pub Tools 2.8 Macmillan decides to quit the DOJ case. Apple still in Apple patents a new book search toolbar This is a great trick, but I love Nate’s [...]

Episode 85 – Len Edgerly and New Kindles Special Guest Len Edgerly News New Firefox addon epub validation tool For Toby: E-ink phone! Ebook consumers are about to GET RICH!!! Plastic Logic shows off a new color eInk screen Welcome to the new family of Kobo readers Silk gets an update, too Random Tweet @LBrady7: [...]

Episode 83 News Barnes & Noble woes http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/21/why-the-nook-is-failing-one-chart-four-reasons/ http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/8_21_12_2013_1Q_financial_results.html http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/08/21/its-time-bn-took-the-nook-out-back-and-put-it-out-of-its-misery http://www.teleread.com/barnes-noble/why-all-the-bn-bashing Readium launches in the Chrome web store Amazon launches India Kindle Store http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1727519&highlight= http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/08/22/amazon-launches-kindle-store-in-india-ignores-most-of-the-country Status of the Kindle Touch Amazon press conference coming Sony PRS-T2 reviews DOJ responds to Apple, B&N, publishers DBW eBook Bestseller list Feedback Howard Cornett: http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/selling-ebooks-direct-how-to-set-up-a-simple-e-bookstore/ Luc Prévost (via FB) [...]

Episode 76 News Rumor: Kindle Fire to drop to $149 in 3rd quarter to make way for new version with better specs. Campaign to save a library uses guerrilla techniques, inviting voters to a “book burning party”. eBook sales revenues surpass hardcovers in the US. Microsoft Surface announced. These look like awesome tablets, with great [...]

Episode 75 News IDPF has published a draft of use cases for DRM built into the ePub spec. They are looking for feedback. also

Episode 72 News Target to remove all Kindles from sale, citing “conflict of interest”. Possibly due to plans for 25 Apple mini-stores inside Target stores? Microsoft joining forces with B&N. Why eBooks will soon be obsolete. I don’t agree with everything, or with the conclusion, but some of these points are important. End of ebook [...]

Episode 71 – Author Education with Jeff Moriarty Guest Jeff Moriarty of http://epublishunum.com/ News Kindle Touch now supports KF8 (not FL) other enhancements Send to Kindle for Mac available Tor/Forge to go DRM-Free Mobileread wiki turned 6 (nice reminder about eprdctn.org) College Professors say students need print texts to succeed Larry Kirshbaum talks about how [...]

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 68 – Indexing with Jan Wright Special Guest Jan Wright News Random House raises wholesale prices to libraries (ALA says please don’t do that) OverDrive buys Book.ish Amazon to publish non-exclusive ebooks Fire & Nook Tablets succeed at expense of einks Fire has 33% of tablet ad traffic Amazon patents annotations There’s a new [...]

Episode 66 – Digital Marketing with Iris Blasi Special Guest Iris Blasi News Nook tablet: 8GB 512KB RAM $199 iBooks opens epub3 files OpenRoad responds to Harper Collins Amazon boycott: B&N, Books-A-Million, Indigo, American Bookseller’s Association http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/indigo-joins-growing-boycott-of-books-published-by-amazoncom/article2326088/ http://paidcontent.org/article/419-books-a-million-wont-carry-amazon-titles-either/ http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/50551-aba-s-indiecommerce-site-dropping-amazon-publishing-titles.html Librarian gets blasted for re-publishing books with Amazon. Amazon removes IPG titles Penguin Group terminating its [...]