Man Booker Prize announces iPad app & T-Mobile partnership

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A new iPhone and iPad app has been released for the Man Booker Prize, one of the book world's most high profile awards. The app boasts a full history of the prize, including information about the judges and the longlist, shortlist and winning authors and books, plus extracts from … [Read more...]

Wylie & Random House agreement loses Amazon eBook exclusivity

The books were expected to be Kindle exclusives. Photo: Amazon

Just a month after announcing an exclusive tie-up with Amazon's Kindle store for 20 titles the Wylie Agency has ceded publishing rights to 13 of the titles to Random House after the publisher disputed Wylie and Amazon's right to sell the books. Last month Wylie and Amazon announced … [Read more...]

Report: Just 2% of UK homes have an eBook reader

An OFCOM study suggests just 2 per cent of UK homes have an eBook reader

Just 2 percent of the UK population has, or knows someone with, access to an eBook reader according to a new study published by OFCOM. According to the latest Communications Market Report [download from OFCOM's website], which covers the first quarter of 2010, just 2% of adults … [Read more...]

WHSmith starts UK eBook price war

Books bought from WHSmiths can be read on a range of readers including those from COOL-ER and Sony

WHSmith has become the second UK eBook retailer to drop the price of Sony's Pocket Reader, matching Waterstone's £99 asking price, and has also dropped the price of Sony's larger Touch Reader to just £189 - £10 lower than Waterstone's. In a sign that price competition has truly … [Read more...]