iBookstore Bestsellers: Three Self-Published Titles Crack Top 10
Inferno overtook Entwined for the #1 spot on Apple's iBookstore top-10 selling e-books, but three self-published titles landed on the bestseller list for the week ended June 17. more...
Apple Trial: B&N's Horner Touts Agency Model
Nook Media v-p of digital content Theresa Horner took the stand at the Apple e-book price fixing trial and the government and Apple clashed over questions about the profitability—or lack of it—in the e-book market of 2009-2010. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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Content / e-books
For Apple, Price-Fixing Trial Closes With a Win
In the final moments of Apple’s e-book price-fixing trial, federal Judge Denise Cote uttered the words Apple attorneys have surely longed to hear, saying the issues over the course of the trial “have somewhat shifted.”
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Content / e-booksPenguin Tests Social Reading Rewards Program
Penguin has unveiled a new program, aimed at raising the discoverability of its books, that will allow customers to read some of its most anticipated titles months before they go on sale.
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Apps
PW Online and On Air: Week of June 17, 2013
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Retailing
More Publishers and Tech Companies Getting Into E-book Retailing
As e-book sales continue to climb, so too does the number of companies retailing e-books and developing applications that can read them regardless of platform.
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Content / e-books
Coliloquy Adds Ridley Pearson, Rock Bottom Remainders E-Books
Digital publisher Coliloquy creates apps for YA favorite Ridley Pearson and the Rock Bottom Remainders band of authors.
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Content / e-books
Eddy Cue Takes the Stand at Apple Trial
If there was a conspiracy to push Amazon off its $9.99 e-book pricing, Apple was not part of it, testified Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue, in his long-anticipated turn on the stand at Apple’s e-book trial.
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Content / e-books
iBookstore E-book Bestsellers: Week Ending June 10, 2013
Last week's #1 iBookstore seller, Inferno, slipped to #2 behind Sylvia Day's Entwined with You. Click through for the top 10.
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Content / e-books
ABFFE Joins Campaign Against NSA Surveillance
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) has joined a number of other civil liberties organizations to protest the National Security Administration's surveillance of Americans' Internet activity and phone records.
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Content / e-books
Apple Trial: Rupert Murdoch Wanted to ‘Screw’ Amazon
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray couldn’t recall very much of his early dealings with Apple as the company negotiated its entry into the e-book business, but his testimony suggests he may have been the shrewdest negotiator of the five publisher CEOs.
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Content / e-books
Apple Attacks Google at Trial
For more than an hour, Apple attorney Orin Snyder aggressively dismantled Google's Director of Content Partnerships, but failed to get Amazon officials off their story.
