Amazon awarded $75K in dispute with e-book marketer over Kindle Direct Publishing scheme Amazon has been awarded $75,000 in an arbitration case against an e-book marketer that allegedly inflated reader numbers artificially in… Read More
An Amazon shopping spree, courtesy of Apple: How the $400M e-book settlement works 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… Read More
Supreme Court rejects Apple’s e-book price-fixing appeal in victory for Amazon The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected an appeal from Apple over an appellate court’s decision which found that the company conspired… Read More
Barnes & Noble closes Nook e-book store in UK as overall sales continue to fall Barnes & Noble, the 99-year-old bookstore chain, just can’t seem to find a solution for Amazon, the company’s main rival.… Read More
Hachette’s parent says Amazon dispute partly to blame for fewer e-book sales last year The seven-month long dispute between Hachette and Amazon was a costly one, with the company disclosing weaker sales for the… Read More
Online sales exceeded physical retail revenue for US book publishers in 2013 An annual report from BookStats reveals that U.S. publishers are now seeing more revenue from online sales than from physical… Read More
Money in your inbox: Amazon issues credits to customers from e-book settlement If you’ve bought a Kindle book in the past few years, check out your inbox this morning: There may be… Read More
Pew: More people reading e-books, but print is still most popular People reading with e-books is becoming a more common sight, but print books don’t seem to be going away anytime… Read More
Judge issues permanent injunction in Apple e-book case Apple’s going to have a new babysitter for the next two years as a part of the remedies in its… Read More
Apple blasts DOJ’s ‘absurdly broad’ remedy as a ‘draconian and punitive intrusion’ This morning, the Justice Department proposed a remedy in the Apple e-book pricing case that requested a smorgasbord of sanctions… Read More
Apple loses e-books antitrust case, but vows to appeal While US District Court Judge Denise Cote may have thought that Apple’s case in its antitrust trial was less simple… Read More
E-books: Apple trial wraps up — now for the waiting game 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… Read More
Reading revolution: e-book market set to pass print books by 2017 As the e-book battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department continues in court this week, new reports are out showing… Read More
More than just books: Pew study details how technology has changed libraries We’ve seen brick-and-mortar booksellers close down all over the country due to online retailers like Amazon. Will public libraries follow… Read More
O, Canada: Amazon expanding Prime service north, but without Instant Video and e-book lending Amazon Prime is now available in Canada but without a few key benefits. The Seattle online retail giant announced today… Read More
Clearing out Kindles: Amazon ditches original Kindle Touch Last week, it was Amazon saying goodbye to the Kindle DX and now it appears they’re doing the same to… Read More
Amazon says goodbye to the Kindle DX The big Kindle is going bye-bye. It appears that after slashing prices of the e-book reader, Amazon has decided to… Read More
Walmart follows Target, stops selling Amazon Kindles Seeing the online retailer as a threat to profits, Walmart has decided to follow Target in removing the Amazon Kindle… Read More
