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
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’
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: A Week of Negative Ads, and New Chief at Sony
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.



