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The right to resell ebooks — major case looms in the Netherlands

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David Meyer's avatarGigaom

A major lawsuit is about to take place in the Netherlands, dragging the issue of the resale of digital media back into European courts.

On Tuesday this week, a local startup called Tom Kabinet opened the virtual doors on its secondhand ebook bookstore. At the moment, it is generally accepted that ebooks cannot be resold, as is the case with music, movies and other digital media.

However, Tom Kabinet is pointing to a 2012 ruling by Europe’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, in the case of UsedSoft v Oracle. That case was about reselling licenses for downloadable software, and the court ruled that – even when the software license explicitly forbids resale – the buyer should have the right to resell that licence, just as they would be allowed to resell a boxed software copy.

“The publishers have asked us to stop operating with…

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Australia: Library Use and Ebooks

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The link below is to an article that takes a look at Australia’s libraries and how users use them and ebooks.

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http://theconversation.com/we-like-e-readers-but-library-users-are-still-borrowing-books-28247

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Apple and Ebooks

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The link below is to an article that looks at why Apple has lost the ebook war.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-zack/why-apple-has-lost-the-eb_b_5509413.html

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Reading Books on the Amazon Fire

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Ebook subscription site Oyster expands to Android, Kindle Fire and Nook tablets

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Laura Hazard Owen's avatarGigaom

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The $9.95 per month ebook subscription service Oyster, which was previously only available on iOS(s AAPL), expanded to Android(s GOOG), Kindle(s AMZN) Fire and Nook(s BKS) HD tablets Tuesday — thus removing one of the differentiating factors between it and rival service Scribd. New features include “read time” for books (there is a similar feature on Kindle e-readers) and the ability to turn a book’s pages using the volume buttons on an Android device. Oyster, which is based in NYC and launched in fall 2013, now has over 500,000 titles, with two of the big-five publishers — Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins — participating.

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Book Titles

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The link below is to an article that takes a look at book titles.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-rachman-/whats-in-a-book-title_b_5503681.html

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Apple settles ebook case, agrees to pay consumers over price-fixing

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Jeff John Roberts's avatarGigaom

Apple(s appl) has finally bowed out of a high stakes legal battle over ebooks and agreed to a settlement that could soon see the tech giant paying out millions to customers who purchased titles at online retailers like Amazon(s amzn) and Barnes & Noble(s bn).

According to a letter to the court filed in New York, and embedded below, Apple has reached an agreement with class-action lawyers and state attorneys general that will see the parties cancel a damages trial set for July.

The settlement is under seal for now and must be approved by the court, but is likely to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The money will come on top of the $160 million or so that the five publishers agreed to pay as a result of settlements reached last year.

Apple will, however, continue to appeal a jury verdict from last year in which U.S. District Judge Denise Cote…

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Reading ebooks on a phone – 5 ways to make the most of it

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The link below is to an article that looks at reading ebooks on smartphones.

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http://ebookfriendly.com/reading-ebooks-phone-tips/

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Who’s Afraid of Very Cheap Books?

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Digital Library Wallpaper

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One of the ‘downsides’ of a largely ebook library is that it is very difficult to use your ebooks as a visual display – an ebook reader on a shelf is not the same as a physical book library, though there are definite advantages in having a digital library. The link below is to an article which allows you to have the best of both worlds.

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A bookshelf-like wallpaper that serves as a digital book library (pictures)