NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
The internet gods probably won’t thank me for adding yet another post about ebook pricing to the hordes already attracting heated exchanges about piracy and ‘ripoff’ publishers but I wanted to address an aspect of the discussion which tends to get drowned out by the entrenched positions of both ‘sides’ in the … [Read more...]
Apple has unveiled three new iPhone TV adverts in the US, each featuring one of the iPhone and iPad's three content stores - iTunes, iBooks and the App Store. The ads are built around the message that only the iPhone has access to these stores and end with the strapline "Yup, if you don't have an iPhone, well, you … [Read more...]
January ebook sales in the US rose by more than 115 percent compared to the same month last year according to the Association of American Publishers. The trade body says the value of sales increased to $69.9 million compared to $32.4 million in January 2010. Hardback sales fell by over $5m in the period to $49.1m … [Read more...]
Random House UK could follow their US counterpart in adopting agency pricing for ebooks according to internet rumours which also suggest an announcement confirming the move could come as early as this week. Last week the US division of Random House announced it would be moving to model which sees publishers set the … [Read more...]
This week's news of an OFT investigation into the agency pricing model being used by ebook publishers went down especially well with Kindle users posting on Amazon's forums, many of whom are clearly not paying attention to the OFT's caveat that "it should not be assumed that the parties involved have breached … [Read more...]
