The link below is to an article containing an interview with literary agent Andrew Wylie. If you’re an Amazon user and/or fan, be prepared to be insulted by this bloke.
For more visit:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115007/andrew-wylie-interview-literary-agent-makes-millions-highbrow
The link below is to an article that takes a different approach to Kindle Matchbook and once again Amazon is the bad boy. You can always find some reason to bash Amazon, but I remain a fan and I don’t see any great issue with Kindle Matchbook. It seeks to look after the customer/reader, and perhaps that is the real issue for publishers. I think most publishers have had an issue with looking after their customers/readers, so it’s really no surprise that this would be a something they take issue with.
For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/09/09/least-surprising-aspect-kindle-matchbook/
The link below is to an article that reports on Kindle Matchbook.
For more visit:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/amazon-couples-print-digital-books-with-new-program/
The link below is to an article that looks at Amazon Matchbook, which is yet another reason why Amazon continues to dominate the book/ebook market. The Amazon emphasis is on putting the ‘reader’ first and it is a strategy that works well for them.
For more visit:
http://www.futurebook.net/content/two-and-half-thoughts-amazons-matchbook
The link below is to an article that takes a look at Kindle Matchbook, the new service provided by Amazon.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/kindle/kindle-matchbook-service-a-match-made-in-ebook-heaven/
Maybe this was inevitable since Amazon (s AMZN) acquired book-based social network Goodreads (see disclosure), but Kobo has stopped using the Goodreads API on its website and in its apps, Good E-Reader reports.
That means no more Goodreads ratings and reviews on Kobo book pages. It sounds as if the decision was driven by Kobo, not Goodreads or Amazon: The company’s chief content officer Michael Tamblyn tells Good E-reader that Kobo might re-add the Goodreads API in the future. And back in March when Amazon acquired Goodreads, the companies told me they would leave the Goodreads API open and would not shut off the Kobo feed. (Update: Goodreads confirmed it’s made no changes to its API.)
Nonetheless, the move demonstrates the risk of relying on what is now a competing retailer’s API. At one point, Goodreads actually encountered a similar problem itself: In early 2012, it stopped sourcing its…
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In court filings posted Monday morning, Apple (s AAPL) attorney Orin Snyder responded to the Department of Justice’s revised proposed punishment for the tech company in the ebooks case. Snyder criticized the government for filing “a 12-page broadside masquerading as a brief,” and accused them of “seeking a remedy that would give Amazon a significant competitive advantage over Apple.” (The filings are embedded below.)
U.S. district judge Dense Cote found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to set ebook prices last month, and Apple is appealing that verdict. Nonetheless, it responded directly to various parts of the DOJ’s proposed injunction. The DOJ is arguing for a number of things: Changes in the way that Apple sells content in the App Store, including allowing ebook retailers to sell ebooks directly through their apps without Apple taking a cut; staggered negotiations with book publishers; and the creation of a third party monitor to…
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The link below is to an article that takes a look at yet another Amazon venture – ‘Icons.’
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-publishing-announces-the-launch-of-icons/
The link below is to what is probably to be regarded as old news now and that is that Jeff Bezos (the Founder of Amazon) has bought The Washington Post for $250 million dollars.
For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/jeff-bezos-buys-the-washington-post-for-250-million_b39317
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