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Arizona bill looks to add e-book readers to library privacy law

Susan Lulgjuraj — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:15:11 +0000

As e-books emerge as more and more of a popular medium, politicians have to look at new ways of protecting citizens. When many laws were enacted, even decades ago, they were written without much consideration for future digital endeavors. Arizona is the most recent to state to look at e-books, and to move to protect [...]

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Baen/Amazon deal takes effect December 15

Chris Meadows — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:31:28 +0000

Since I originally posted about Baen’s deal with Amazon, a couple more details of about the deal have come to light. First of all, the deadline for buying any of the old Baen bundles is Saturday, December 15th. That’s when the deal with Amazon goes live, and the old $10, $15, and $18 monthly bundles [...]

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Baen inks deal with Amazon, makes major changes to Webscriptions and Free Library

Chris Meadows — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:22:58 +0000

Toni Weisskopf has posted a series of messages to the Baen Bar indicating major changes in the offing for the Baen Ebooks (nee Webscriptions) store. Baen is finally on the verge of getting its titles placed directly into Amazon (and is negotiating with others such as Barnes & Noble, etc.) The problem is, that comes [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving 2012

Chris Meadows — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:48:36 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone (in the US, anyway—those impatient Canadians celebrated it weeks ago)! Hopefully you are replete with turkey (or ham, whichever you prefer) and spending the day with your families…in which case you probably won’t see this until at least Black Friday. But hey, we can be thankful any time of year. I have [...]

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Pottermore adds e-book gifting, Tales of Beedle the Bard

Chris Meadows — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:51:42 +0000

Just in time for the holiday season, the Pottermore e-book shop has added gifting options for Harry Potter e-books and audiobooks. The gift e-books or audiobooks can be bought any time from up to six months in advance through the day on which they should be delivered. The books may be downloaded up to eight [...]

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Library advocates, used merchandise vendors lobby for digital ownership rights

Chris Meadows — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:54:58 +0000

In his Copyright and Technology Blog, Bill Rosenblatt has an interesting column looking at the Owners’ Rights Initiative, a lobbying coalition of interested parties who have united under the slogan “you bought it, you own it,” seeking to promote the right to resell digital property. The group includes used book vendors such as Powell’s, movie [...]

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Amazon accidentally disables Big Six publisher Kindle e-book buy buttons overnight

Chris Meadows — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:55:20 +0000

Not everything always goes smoothly over at Amazon. PaidContent reports that, for a few hours Thursday night, it seems Amazon inadvertently disabled the Kindle e-book buy buttons on Big Six publishers (and who knows what other publishers?) for a few hours. The company reported it was a “technical issue”. It also affected users’ ability to [...]

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Single issues of DC Comics come to Kindle, Nook, and iBooks e-book stores

Chris Meadows — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:00:12 +0000

Seems like only yesterday that DC Comics was adding the Nook tablets to its formerly exclusive deal with the Kindle Fire platform, and releasing graphic novels via e-book stores. But the thing about DC on those color tablets was that the comics were actually sold through third-party stores like comiXology, or DC’s own app Vertigo. [...]

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Can E-Books Inspire?

Paul St John Mackintosh — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:46:23 +0000

You could dismiss this title as a fake question, since obviously it is unlikely that I’d write about the topic here, and still come up with a negative answer. But still, I feel it’s a question worth posing, if only for the issues it raises. Books are customarily supposed to open new mental vistas for [...]

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Can smartphone game Tip or Skip entice ‘showroomers’ to buy goods in physical locations?

Chris Meadows — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:34:48 +0000

“Showrooming.” While I can’t say I’d heard the specific term before, it’s easy to understand what it’s talking about—the practice of using a physical store as a “showroom” where you can examine something and then go buy it online. This is one of the trends many pro-agency pricing comment submitters noted in their comments to [...]

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Amazon locker program expands to Silicon Valley

Chris Meadows — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:40:14 +0000

Are you still in the habit of ordering physical things from Amazon, but don’t have a way to ensure you’ll be home when they arrive? Or at least need some way of making sure that Kindle you’re ordering arrives safely so you can stop buying the physical books? Amazon’s expanding its locker delivery program, report [...]

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Publishers and libraries still trying to work out e-book lending

Chris Meadows — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:37:53 +0000

The Economist has an article which summarizes the current state of affairs around e-book library lending. Publishers have an awkward relationship with libraries when it comes to allowing books to be lent, since someone who borrows a book may not have any need to buy it after reading it, which could account (at least in [...]

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Dutch e-book industry starting to take off

Chris Meadows — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:35:40 +0000

FutureBook has a brief report on the Dutch e-book industry, which appears to have started taking off since Kobo and Apple entered the market in the last year. E-book market revenue makes up about 3% of the market now, and is expected to account for 5-7% by the end of the year. Barnes & Noble, [...]

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Self-publishing writers should aspire to writing well, not fast

Chris Meadows — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:47:29 +0000

The “Writer Beware” blog usually warns of scams and fly-by-night publishers trying to take advantage of inexperienced writers, but a guest post from writer and writing instructor Marcia Yudkin warns of something else—inexperienced writers apparently trying to take advantage of readers. I’m reminded of the aphorism, “Fast, cheap, good: pick any two”—because Yudkin is talking [...]

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Law professor Rebecca Tushnet interviewed about fanfic on Reason TV

Chris Meadows — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:24:08 +0000

Fanfic and other original Internet fiction were some of the very first “e-books”, but ever since copyright owners have started paying more attention to the Internet the relationship with fans has sometimes been a thorny one. Reason TV has a 7.5-minute interview with Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University law professor and long-time legal advocate for fanfiction. [...]

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