Amazon launched its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet just three months ago. The tablet is the most successful non-iPad tablet so far with anywhere from 4 million to 6 million of the tablets being sold in about a month and a half of last year. [Read more…]
Publishers claim file sharing sites are hosting pirated ebooks
An international coalition of book publishers that includes members of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has taken legal action against www.library.nu and www.ifile.it. The two file sharing sites were served court orders in Ireland alleging that the sites are hosting pirated ebooks and making them available for free. [Read more…]
Penguin delivers crushing blow to ebook lending at public libraries
Starting today, Penguin is no longer selling ebooks or audiobooks to libraries through OverDrive. Penguin is a “Big Six” publisher and represents a huge portion of the ebooks available at public libraries. The impact of this move will be absolutely devastating on ebook lending at public libraries. [Read more…]
Why are ebooks so expensive?
You would think this is a pretty stupid question. Aren’t all things the price they are because of basic supply and demand? Normally that answer would work as a satisfactory explanation, but the prices of ebooks don’t seem to make sense in a lot of cases. [Read more…]
US ebook sales jump 130% at “Big Six” book publisher
Net sales from digital products (ebooks and audio books) in the US climbed 130% last year at Hachette Book Group (HBG). Lagardère SCA, the parent of HBG, released financial results today that provided some highlights of the book publisher’s performance. [Read more…]
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