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When you ask Siri late on a Friday night how to craft the perfect booty text, it's not like the iPhone's digital assistant is going to run off and tell…
And another one bites the dust. After refusing to join in an earlier settlement with three other publishers accused of colluding with Apple to fix prices on e-books, the folks…
Smashwords: Mark Coker's 2013 Book Publishing Industry Predictions - Indie Ebook Authors Take Charge
It’s that time of year when book people make their predictions for the year ahead. I bring you, my dear reader, my epic predictions for 2...
The parties agreed to suspend "most favored nation" agreements for five years.
Apple continues battle against price-fixing allegations in the United States.
Another battle in the long war over who gets to set e-book prices.
Apple's response to the suit and settlement is being called "self-serving."
Says its agreements with e-book publishers are similar, but not identical.
Apple hasn't been found guilty yet, but the judge's comments don't bode well.
Microsoft has invested $300 million in Barnes and Noble.
Excellent explanation of antitrust legalisms.
An antitrust suit may provide short-term price reductions on e-books, but once the competition is flattened, Amazon is likely to resume its monopolistic ways.
Big waves were made yesterday with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five of the six largest
The US Department of Justice has moved forward with its plans to sue Apple and …
The Justice Department has warned Apple and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books.
Apple's decision to reject an e-book by Seth Godin because it contains hyperlinks to books in the Amazon store is just another example of how the oligopoly that controls the market for e-books is turning the landscape of reading into a walled garden.
Today, Apple released version 1.0.1 of its iBooks Author program. There's no new code, only a new license agreement. The sloppy language in the original license agreement is cleaned up, but the fundamentals are unchanged: Apple retains exclusive rights to anything an author wants to sell in its new format.
Apple ties iBooks Author-generated content to the iBookstore with both …