The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have their own Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) sites.
Apple Clarifies: We Don’t Own The Content You Put Into iBooks Author
When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works created in the program must be sold exclusively through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The company has now tweaked the EULA to make it a bit more clear.
Apple Tweaks iBook Language: Your Content Is Your Content
A couple weeks after introducing its new iBooks Author app, Apple has clarified legal language about what happens to the books users create with the software. Apple continues to insist that users can only sell electronic books in the iBook format via its iTunes store. But it makes it clear that the content of those...
Books-A-Million Won’t Carry Amazon Titles, Either
Books-A-Million—the nation’s second largest bookstore chain after Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS)—announced today that, like B&N, it will not carry Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles in its stores.
Random House Will Keep All Its E-Books In Libraries, With A Price Increase
Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries—and it said yesterday it will continue to do so, though it is raising prices.
Media Decoder Blog: Site Releases an App for ‘Serious Readers’
Longform.org, which picks out wordy magazine and online articles for readers, started selling an iPad app on Wednesday that pieces together articles from dozens of sources for offline reading.
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: A Week of Negative Ads, and New Chief at Sony
Also, the Facebook I.P.O., Amazon's earnings disappoint and academics boycott Elsevier over the pricing of journals.
Why Some Book Buyers Are Increasingly Resistant To E-Readers
Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader in the next 12 months—up from 40 percent in 2009. Why?
Amazon Misses Estimates: Q4 Earnings Down 58 Percent
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but missing analyst estimates. Net income slid to $177 million on earnings of $0.38 per share, down 58 percent from this time last year, and shares were down 8 percent in...
Study: As E-Readers Increase, So Does Resistance
E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying an e-reader.
A Crowdfunded Approach To Setting E-Books Free
What do To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time and Little House on the Prairie series have in common, besides being beloved? None of them are available legally as e-books. A new site aims to make these and other e-books available to the public (and in libraries), as DRM-free Creative Commons works, via crowdfunding.
...ProPublica Partners With Open Road On E-Books
Digital publisher and multimedia company Open Road is partnering with investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica on multiple e-books.
