Posts Tagged ‘DOJ’

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 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 80 News Paul Biba resigns from Teleread. How many Kindle Fires? How many Apple products? DOJ responds to comments on anti-trust settlement Stuff about Rakuten and bad PR zomg Amazon wipes out sales data for free public domain books. Random House starting a TV production house to make shows from their books. Kindle Singles [...]

Episode 77 – Google Nexus 7 News ABA gives an update on the plans for a replacement for the Google eBook sales engine for indie bookstores Update on DOJ case: settling publishers want to not have to give up discovery Califa (library system) to purchase 10,000 books from Smashwords for $3 each ePub3 support Grid [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]