NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday said the firm's iBookstore had seen more than 100m ebooks downloaded since the iPad went on sale last year. Jobs, who was speaking at the launch of the updated iPad 2, also confirmed that Random House US would be adding its 17,000 ebooks to the store. Earlier this week the publisher … [Read more...]
EU fair trading officials and local national partner agencies have carried out raids at an unknown number of publishers across Europe. In a statement issued today, the European Commission announced "that on 1 March 2011 Commission officials initiated unannounced inspections at the premises of companies that are active … [Read more...]
The US division of publishers Random House has now adopted the agency pricing model which sees publishers set the retail price of ebooks and pay a commission to the retailer. The firm was the only large publisher not to adopt the model and the move could see its books listed in Apple's US iBookstore which only stocks … [Read more...]
Bookseller Waterstone's has slashed the price of its colour ereader to £69.99 - a saving of £30 on the Elonex manufactured device's previous selling price. The 5" reader supports the ePub files protected by Adobe DRM and is also capable of playing MP3s and movies. Waterstone's claims a 6 hour battery life when the … [Read more...]
iPad and iPhone users who 'jailbreak' - install modified versions of the operating system - their devices risk not being able to access books purchased from Apple's iBooks app. According to reports, the US tech giant has used a recent update to its app to implement a 'jailbreak check' which runs before each book is … [Read more...]
