While I have been away the case against Apple has progressed to the ‘punishment’ stage and the link below is to an article reporting on that aspect of it.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/judge-cote-devises-brave-punishments-for-apple-in-settlement-hearing/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at free book promotions and if they still work.
For more visit:
http://noorosha.com/freepromotionswork/
The link below is to an article reporting on yet another Spotify for ebooks – this time in the Netherlands.
For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/11/new-spotify-for-ebooks-to-launch-soon-in-the-netherlands/
The link below is to an article that looks at creating ebooks through Open Source tools.
For more visit:
http://opensource.com/life/13/8/how-create-ebook-open-source-way
The link below is to an article that looks at the pros and cons of reading ebooks.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2013/aug/07/1
The link below is to an article that looks at the reasons people keep books.
For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2013/08/12/why-keep-books/
The link below is to an article that lists 10 places that an independent author can get their book/ebook reviewed.
For more visit:
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/08/get-reviews-for-your-self-published-book/
Libboo is a book recommendation service/application that I have mentioned before. The link below is to an article that reviews the book recommendation service.
For more visit:
http://www.futurebook.net/content/testing-libboo-authors-view
As expected, Apple(s AAPL) has expressed its strong disagreement with the federal government’s proposed remedies in the ebook pricing case, which the government outlined in a court filing released Friday morning.
In July, a federal judge found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to fix ebook prices.
Apple’s full court filing is embedded below and is available here as a PDF. Apple calls the proposed injunction “a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm,” and claimed it is “a sweeping and unprecedented injunction as a tool to empower the Government to regulate Apple’s businesses and potentially affect Apple’s business relationships with thousands of partners across several markets.”
The government’s injunction seemingly forces Apple to abandon its in-app purchasing restrictions, at least for digital bookstores, by “allowing Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other ebook app providers to offer a simple…
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The Justice Department is calling on a federal judge to force Apple(s aapl) to allow competitors in the ebook market to provide prices and links to their e-bookstores within apps on Apple’s devices, a move that is likely to anger the iPhone maker and increase the stakes in an anti-trust investigation that has already produced a damning judgment against Apple in early July.
In a press release and court filing on Friday, the government set out a series of proposals to fix what it says are Apple’s “brazen” efforts to orchestrate price-fixing among major publishers.
The remedies would come in the form of a final judgment to be entered in a high-profile trial between Apple and the Justice Department that concluded in July when U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple had been the ringleader in a conspiracy with five publishers to increase prices and wrest control of the…
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