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Apple Loses Two Key Decisions in E-book Case
The rulings are a double whammy for Apple, paving the way for the class action suits to continue, while all but knocking out Apple’s defense.
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Humanoids Debuts Comics App for iPad
Humanoids, the famed French comics house now based in Los Angeles, has released the Humanoids Comics app for the iPad. The app is available now and offers users the ability to preview more than 60 Humanoids titles.
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Sequential Adds NBM Graphic Novels
Sequential, the graphic novel retail app that specializes in literary comics, has added a selection of graphic novels from the New York indie comics publisher NBM including works by Rick Geary, Stan Mack and Margreet de Heer.
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Scribd Adds Lonely Planet to Subscription Service
Scribd has reached an agreement with Lonely Planet to add hundreds of its travel guides to the Scribd e-book subscription service.
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Bologna 2014: E-Publishing and 'Nimble Thinking'
TOC Bologna may be no more, but book fair attendees had a chance to get several perspectives on the ongoing impact of changing technologies on children’s publishing at the fair's first Digital Rights Workshop.
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iBooks Bestsellers: No Stopping Divergent
Titles in Veronica Roth's Divergent series once again dominated Apple's iBooks bestseller list.
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Apple, Publishers Battle New E-book Antitrust Claims
Two new suits were filed this month against Apple and the five major publishers involved in a 2010 e-book price-fixing conspiracy, raising the possibility of a new e-book antitrust battle involving aggrieved retailers.
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E-book Settlement Refunds Released to Consumers
Roughly $166 million in settlement funds collected as part of a deal to settle state and consumer charges of e-book price-fixing began flowing to consumers today.
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Ciudad de Libros/Open Road Español Launches
The global Spanish-language e-book venture formed by Open Road Media and Barcelona Digital Editions, has released its first 40 e-books in Spanish.
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Yen Press, Square Enix Ink Global Digital Manga Pact
Yen Press and Japanese gaming and manga publisher Square Enix have entered into a partnership to distribute Square Enix manga in digital editions internationally.
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Q&A with Paul Riley of OUP-ELT: Digital Publishing in Korea 2014
For global publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), close connections with the markets that it operates in have afforded plenty of opportunities to establish partnerships with different technology companies for its products and services.
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Facts and Numbers on the Korean Book Market: Digital Publishing in Korea 2014
A visit to the Gwanghwamun branch of Kyobo, Korea’s largest bookstore chain, provides many clues to the country’s present book market.
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Digital Publishing in Korea 2014: All Our Coverage
Here is this year's special report on digital publishing in Korea.
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Driving the Content Industry Forward: Digital Publishing in Korea 2014
Nothing gets the work done faster, or makes the word travel further, than having the might of the government behind it or the united action of a group of individuals with shared interests. In the Korean publishing industry, such synergy is evident and has been very effective.
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Here Come the K-books: Digital Publishing in Korea 2014
Consider these figures: This is the country with the fastest Internet speed in the world at 13.3 Mbps (against 8.7 Mbps in the U.S.), and 98% of its households have access to broadband Internet.
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Apple’s May Trial Date in Doubt
Citing numerous pending motions, a letter to the court from the class plaintiffs acknowledges that a May trial may be a stretch.
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Widbook Revamps Interface
The Brazilian startup has released a plan that changes the way users find stories.
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Google, Viacom Settle YouTube Copyright Suit
Copyright experts had seen the case as a key test of the DMCA's "safe harbor" provision, which protects Internet service providers from liability for the infringing behavior of its users.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Day Lands in Top Five
Sylvia Day's "Aftershock," released March 11, broke the top five on Apple's iBooks bestseller list for the week ended March 17.
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Perseus Adds 4,000 Titles to Oyster
The Perseus Book Group is expanding its agreement with Oyster, the e-book subscription service, and will make an additional 4,000 titles available to Oyster subscribers.