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Barnes & Noble’s New E-Book Reader
A major boost in Adobe’s e-book prospects.
What Do I Sound Like?
An audio interview with discussions of the Google book settlement and Viacom litigation.
Disney Launches Subscription E-Book Service
Another worthwhile market for e-book subscriptions: kids learning to read.
Sony Transitions to Adobe E-Book Platform
Sony Reader and the Sony e-bookstore will abandon its proprietary e-book technology and focus on Adobe’s Digital Editions platform. But how much does this help Adobe?
Barnes & Noble Launches E-Book Store
The most serious challenge to Amazon’s Kindle/Mobipocket strategy comes from the combination of B&N and Fictionwise.
Scribd Starts User-Generated E-Book Sales with Optional DRM
The Scribd Store is a big step forward for user-generated content business models.
Amazon Acquires Stanza E-Book Reader
A move towards providing DRM interoperability for e-books and getting a larger share of the growing e-book market.
Attributor Gathers Publishers to Share Ad Revenue from Unauthorized Content Use
The Fair Syndication Consortium will use text fingerprinting to find unauthorized uses of publishers’ content and attempt to share ad revenue.
Attributor Integrates Creative Commons with Text Fingerprinting
The text fingerprinting provider Attributor launched a beta version of a service called FairShare last week. FairShare enables anyone with an RSS feed — bloggers, for example — to attach Creative Commons noncommercial licenses to their content and use Attributor’s technology to track where their content is to be found on the web. There’s no […]
Amazon Launches Kindle Reader App for iPhones
Today Amazon is launching Kindle for iPhone and iPod Touch, an e-book reader application, available in the iPhone App Store at no charge. This is yet another major shift in platform tectonics for e-books, among so many in this young year already. And it shows that I was incorrect when I previously speculated that Amazon […]
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