Article: Book/Ebook Length

3 August 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to an article that considers the length of books/ebooks.

For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/writing/feel-the-extra-length-the-issue-of-size-in-writing/

Article: Apple Finally Being Held to Account

3 August 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to an article reporting on the USA DOJ’s proposed settlement for Apple in the ebook price fixing lawsuit. My view? Finally, Apple is having to put things right across the board.

For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/02/doj-calls-for-apple-to-let-rival-apps-link-to-their-ebookstores/

Article: Call to End Geo-Blocks for Ebooks in Australia

31 July 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to an article that reports on the call for ending Geo-Blocking for ebooks in Australia.

For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/07/30/ebook-prices-in-australia-are-so-bad/

Site: Building a Children’s Library

30 July 2013 by particularkev

The link below is to a page on The Guardian’s website that is concerned with putting together a collection of books for a child’s library. Well worth a look I think.

For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/building-a-children-s-library

Apple could pay nearly $500 million in ebook case

26 July 2013 by particularkev

Gigaom

Apple (s AAPL) could get smacked with a $500 million bill from the states and class action lawyers in the ebook pricing suit, based on the amounts that the settling publishers have already paid out.

Earlier this month, federal judge Denise Cote found Apple guilty of colluding with five publishers to fix ebook prices at the launch of the iBookstore. The five publishers named in the case — Hachette, Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster — have already settled and paid damages to the states and in the class action suit. In a document that the court made public Tuesday, the Texas attorney general provided Judge Cote with a chart showing the amounts that the states have agreed to pay. The red markup is by me:

The chart shows that the publishers have paid out over $166 million so far. Earlier this month, a lawyer from Hagens Berman…

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European Commission and Penguin finally wrap things up in Apple ebook pricing case

26 July 2013 by particularkev

Gigaom

Over six months after the European Commission reached an ebook pricing settlement with four publishers and Apple (s AAPL), the EC has approved a similar settlement with Penguin. Penguin, which was trying to clear the decks for its upcoming merger with Random House, had offered its proposed settlement terms in April.

According to an EC press release:

“Penguin offered substantially the same commitments as those proposed by the other four publishers and made legally binding on those companies in December 2012…They include, in particular, the termination of on-going agency agreements and the exclusion of certain most-favoured-nation (MFN) clauses in Penguin’s agency agreements during the next five years. Penguin also offered to give retailers freedom to discount e-books, subject to certain conditions, during two years. After a market test (see IP/13/343), the Commission is satisfied that the commitments offered by Penguin remedy the competition concerns it had identified.”

The…

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