e-Book Compendium
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Rift develops at Amazon over e-book prices (Omaha World-Herald) 20 Mar 2010
Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding the sale of electronic books, according to two industry executives with direct...
Latest e-book fight is over royalties (Crain's New York Business) 19 Mar 2010
Matthew Flamm - While Amazon goes to the mattress for its coming e-book war with Apple, and publishers try to take back ground they lost long ago on e-book pricing, the Authors Guild has just reminded everyone that the battle over e-book royalty rates is far from over. A post that appeared Thursday on the organization's Web site warned members about letters that are being sent to authors and ...
Apple vs. Amazon: The E-Book War Rages On (Mashable) 19 Mar 2010
The e-book war between Amazon.com and Apple is getting uglier . Dennis Johnson cites a report in Publishers Marketplace (subscription required) that alleges that Amazon.com is telling publishers that if they switch to an agency model (ala Macmillan ) , they will lose Amazon as a platform for both e-books and print. This battle, which in many ways mirrors similar struggles between record labels ...
Amazon.com Said to Be in Talks to Alter E-Book Prices (Update1) (Bloomberg) 19 Mar 2010
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. , the world’s largest Internet retailer, is in talks to change some prices of Kindle e-books by no later than the April 3 release of Apple Inc.
ViewSonic VEB612 e-book reader (Digi Times) 19 Mar 2010
ViewSonic has launched an e-book reader, the VEB612. The e-book reader uses a 6-inch E-Ink e-paper with a 800x600 SVGA resolution.
E-book readers (Digi Times) 19 Mar 2010
The report you are trying to open requires subscription. Please sign in if you wish to continue. Digitimes Research estimates that in 2008 worldwide e-book reader shipments were only 700,000 units, with Amazon and Sony being the major vendors.
Annotate and Share Notes Using an E-Book Reader (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) 19 Mar 2010
Samsung recently introduced its long-awaited e-book reader for the American market, and while it has useful features, a big one is missing.
Boomers leading the e-book revolution (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) 18 Mar 2010
Middle-aged women have astonised the publishing industry by leading the demand in the rapidly expanding e-book market.
“Hiring, Training, and Supervising Library Shelvers” now available as an e-book (American Library Association) 17 Mar 2010
CHICAGO – ALA Editions , the publishing imprint of the American Library Association, announces its first eEditions e-book bundle, “ Hiring, Training, and Supervising Library Shelvers ,” by Patricia Tunstall.
Annotate and Share Notes Using an E-Book Reader (New York Times) 17 Mar 2010
The E60, Samsung’s new $299 e-book reader, will have Wi-Fi, but not a 3G cellular feature.