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As Steve Jobs stood on stage unveiling the iPad, Amazon was frantically calling publishers
As Steve Jobs still stood on stage unveiling the iPad on January 27th, Amazon executives frantically began calling a slew of publishers looking to glean as much information as possible about the type of content deals they struck with Apple. According to a recent report in the New York Times, Amazon recently began trying to […]
Continue reading...Report: E-books on the iPad may be cheaper than expected
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The iPad hasn’t even begun shipping and yet it’s already making waves in the publishing world. First, Apple’s tried and true 30/70 revenue split with content creators was the impetus behind Amazon changing the term of their revenue split agreements with publishers just days before Steve Jobs announced the iPad. Second, a number of publishers over […]
Continue reading...Some books on the iPad will come wrapped in DRM
Monday, February 15, 2010
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The Los Angeles Times reports that Apple will give publishers the option to wrap up their digital e-book offerings with fairplay DRM, the same technology Apple once used to envelop their musical content. No doubt some publishers, including O’Reilly Media — which has vociferously argued that digital locks are harmful to sales — will opt […]
Continue reading...iBooks won’t come as a bundled app on the iPad, will only work in the US
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Even though Apple will be touting the iPad as an e-reader, the snazzy looking iBooks app won’t come bundled with the iPad, according to a recent post from John Gruber. Instead, iBooks will be a free application users will be able to download from the iTunes App Store. The description of iBooks on the iPad […]
Continue reading...Macmillan publishing demands higher prices from Amazon, and gets it – iPad to blame
Monday, February 1, 2010
It’s been a wild weekend for Amazon and Macmillan, one of the largest publishing houses in the world. Over the weekend, all of Macmillan’s content suddenly disappeared from Amazon’s online store as a result of Amazon’s unwillingness to cave into Macmillan’s demands, which included the right to sell e-books for anywhere up to $15. Under the old […]
Continue reading...Amazon makes pre-emptive strike against Apple Tablet
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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With Apple’s Tablet announcment just 1 week away, Amazon today announced a change to its royalty program for authors on the Kindle platform, presumably in an effort to combat what it sees as a threat from Apple’s latest, and yet still un-announced product. Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard rumblings that Apple is looking […]
Continue reading...Apple not planning to offer “iTunes for e-books”
Friday, July 31, 2009
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With rumors of an Apple tablet picking up momentum by the week, many have been quick to proclaim that the as of yet unreleased tablet will be a Kindle killer, with some speculation focusing on whether or not Apple might even launch an iTunes store for e-books. With the iPhone app store already heavily populated […]
Continue reading...A look back at the iTunes App Store – Part III: The bannings and the rejections
Friday, July 10, 2009
The iTunes App Store has been exceedingly successful for Apple, but the past 12 months haven’t gone off without a hitch. Since its inception a year ago, the iTunes App Store has been embroiled in controversy, and it often seemed that the unprecedented breadth and popularity of the app store left Apple confused, and unsure […]
Continue reading...Apple’s cool with the Kama Sutra after all
Sunday, May 24, 2009
After initially banning the e-book reader Eucalyptus because it allowed users to download a text copy of the Kama Sutra, Apple finally came to its senses and decided to accept Eucalyptus into the app store with no requirement that the developer manually block users from downloading the Kama Sutra. James Montgomorie, the developer of Eucalyptus, wrote in a blogpost earlier […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects e-book reader over access to Kama Sutra
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Apple’s seemingly inconsistent app store polices seem to create a public outcry nearly every week, so you would think that by now, Apple would have learned a thing or two. In the latest edition of non-sensical app store rejections, Apple rejected the e-book reader Eucalyptus on the grounds that users can use it to access the […]
Continue reading...Amazon purchases company that developed “Stanza”
Monday, April 27, 2009
Amazon has purchased Lexcycle, the makers of the free iPhone and iPod Touch e-book reader “Stanza.” Since its release, Stanza has been an extremely popular application, garnering nearly 500,000 downloads in just the first 3 months it was available on iTunes. Fans of Stanza often claimed, and rightfully so, that the app turns any iPhone […]
Continue reading...A quick thought on why Amazon released a Kindle app for the iPhone
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Early reviews of Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPhone and iPod Touch have been overwhelmingly positive, but it also begs the question as to why Amazon would willingly offer iPhone users the Kindle experience completely for free. Not only might this cause existing Kindle owners to use their Kindle less (assuming they have an iPhone), […]
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
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