AllAfrica.com has an article with the above title. After discussing the advantages ebooks could offer the author goes on to say: Of course, there are still academic publishing dinosaurs, such as Taylor & Francis or Palgrave Macmillan, who are carrying their predatory pricing policies into the e-book realm with prices approaching or exceeding $100 a book. And some commercial publishers are also raising e-book prices. But overall, the price curve continues to go down. Next year Google, which already provides millions of public domain books for free viewing and pdf download, will also be selling hundreds of thousands of low-cost...

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From the press release: Red Ediciones, a leading digital publisher in Spain, has added a further dimension to its digital publishing business with the launch of their eBookstore with some 895 titles from their digital imprint Linkgua. Red Ediciones has partnered with Impelsys, a global leader in electronic content delivery solutions, to power their digital strategy using the successful iPublishCentral technology that is being used by many large publishers in the world. In a bid to sell directly and to build direct relationships with their customers, Red Ediciones leveraged Impelsys’ technology solutions to successfully transition their print content online without a...

From a press release they sent me: MediaNet, the digital music pioneer has launched an eBook catalog and digital distribution service with 200,000 titles from the world’s largest publishers including Simon & Shuster, Harper Collins, Random House, and others. MediaNet offers a full set of features built on top of digital distribution platform that successfully now supports more than 100 digital music customers delivering an API and Web Components with no upfront costs. This is a game changing opportunity helping to create a marketplace where eBooks are made widely available through websites of all sizes and applications you and...