Amazon has been awarded $75,000 in an arbitration case against an e-book marketer that allegedly inflated reader numbers artificially in an effort to increase profits and sales rankings. On Thursday,… Read More
Apple this week started paying out a $400 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit for e-book price fixing, and you might get some free stuff out of it. Eligible customers — people who bought… Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an appeal from Apple over an appellate court’s decision which found that the company conspired with five publishers to raise e-book prices in an attempt… Read More
Barnes & Noble, the 99-year-old bookstore chain, just can’t seem to find a solution for Amazon, the company’s main rival. The latest retreat came in the United Kingdom, where Barnes… Read More
The seven-month long dispute between Hachette and Amazon was a costly one, with the company disclosing weaker sales for the year as a result. Yesterday, the publishing group’s parent company, Lagardere released… Read More
An annual report from BookStats reveals that U.S. publishers are now seeing more revenue from online sales than from physical retailers. Last year, BookStats found that publishers brought in $7.54… Read More
If you’ve bought a Kindle book in the past few years, check out your inbox this morning: There may be a nice little surprise from Amazon.com. Thanks to an antitrust settlement with… Read More
People reading with e-books is becoming a more common sight, but print books don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. That’s the conclusion from Pew’s latest Internet & American Life… Read More
Apple’s going to have a new babysitter for the next two years as a part of the remedies in its antitrust case. Judge Denise Cote, who ruled this summer that… Read More
This morning, the Justice Department proposed a remedy in the Apple e-book pricing case that requested a smorgasbord of sanctions against the Cupertino-based company. Unsurprisingly, Apple was not particularly happy… Read More
While US District Court Judge Denise Cote may have thought that Apple’s case in its antitrust trial was less simple than she initially expected, the outcome was the same. In… Read More
Following closing arguments yesterday, Apple’s 3-week-long e-book price fixing trial has finally come to an end. But it’ll be a while before we know the outcome. Over the course of… Read More
As the e-book battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department continues in court this week, new reports are out showing the rapid growth of the e-book market itself. New projections… Read More
We’ve seen brick-and-mortar booksellers close down all over the country due to online retailers like Amazon. Will public libraries follow suit and vanish from the earth? It doesn’t seem like… Read More
Amazon Prime is now available in Canada but without a few key benefits. The Seattle online retail giant announced today that Prime membership is launching in Canada for 79 CAD per… Read More
Last week, it was Amazon saying goodbye to the Kindle DX and now it appears they’re doing the same to the Kindle Touch. Amazon lists the $99 Kindle Touch on… Read More
The big Kindle is going bye-bye. It appears that after slashing prices of the e-book reader, Amazon has decided to stop selling its Kindle DX altogether. No longer is the… Read More
Seeing the online retailer as a threat to profits, Walmart has decided to follow Target in removing the Amazon Kindle lineup from its offerings of tablets and e-readers in stores. With… Read More