Apple forces online stores to remove in-app links
In response to Apple beginning to enforce new iOS4 app design guidelines that prohibit in-app links that allow consumers to bypass the Apple purchasing system, retailers are scrambling to let consumers...
View ArticleDaily Telegraph ordered to pay damages for 'spiteful' review
The Daily Telegraph has been ordered to pay £65,000 in damages after losing a high court case for libel and malicious falsehood over a book review of Dr Sarah Thornton's book Seven Days in the Art...
View ArticleLA Times eliminates freelance books columnists
The Los Angeles Times has eliminated a number of freelance books columnists, including Susan Salter Reynolds, author of the weekly "Discoveries" column.
View ArticleChildren's books finally receive exemption from lead testing requirements
The publishers of printed books and materials received good news on Monday. Three years after the enactment of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the USA government passed an amendment...
View ArticleAmazon alters rules for Kindles in school libraries
Amazon has apparently created new rules governing the use of its Kindle ereader in school libraries in the USA. Amazon's website states that content cannot be loaded across multiple devices at one time...
View ArticleWWII heroine who inspired Sebastian Faulks 'Charlotte Gray' dies
French Resistance heroine Nancy Wake, who provided the inspiration for Sebastian Faulks' Charlotte Gray has died at 98. Wake was known as the White Mouse for her uncanny ability to run rings around the...
View ArticlePhilip Levine named new USA Poet Laureate
Philip Levine has been named Poet Laureate of the USA. The eighty-three year old grew up in Detroit, working at automobile factories in his youth, and published his first book of poetry in 1963, at the...
View ArticleBookstores serving as showrooms for ebook users
A recent Simba Information survey of more than 110 bookstores across the country reports that 38% had noticed their former regular customers who now own an ereader, "often or very often" visit to...
View ArticleBorders employees issue class action suit for severance pay
Borders is back in court to request a bonus package for management, which totals $1.75 million. The severance provides for $125,000 for fifteen management employees.... While Borders is looking to...
View ArticleBooker Shortlist Showcases The Best of Independent Publishing
The Booker Prize shortlist has been announced with the usual mix of criticism and praise from various quarters. Indeed, the controversy over each year's list is as much a tradition as the Prize itself.
View ArticleFlipkart now India's biggest online bookseller
Flipkart is now India's biggest online bookseller, with over 10 million titles distributed from warehouses in five cities. It has branched from books into mobile phones, appliances, gaming consoles,...
View ArticleMichael Stern Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, dies aged 64
Michael Stern Hart, founder and head of Project Gutenberg, who many consider invented the ebook, died this week aged 64. On July 4 1971, having been granted access to significant computing power at the...
View ArticleCalifornia & Amazon agree tentative 1-year moratorium on sales tax
Amazon.com cut a tentative deal with legislative leaders Wednesday night that would allow it to postpone collecting sales taxes from Californians for another year. The company in turn would drop its...
View ArticleCalifornia approves Amazon tax compromise
The California Senate and Assembly have overwhelmingly passed a compromise bill that delays California's effort to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect the state's sales taxes while...
View ArticleAmazon may launch a Netflix-type service for books
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is talking with book publishers about launching a Netflix type service for digital books, in which customers would pay an annual fee to access a library of...
View ArticleBanned Books Read Out Launched Online
Readers from across the United States and around the world are demonstrating their support for free speech by participating in a virtual read-out of banned and challenged books that will culminate...
View ArticleBanned Books Read Out Launched Online
Readers from across the United States and around the world are demonstrating their support for free speech by participating in a virtual read-out of banned and challenged books that will culminate...
View ArticleBanned Books Read Out Launched Online
Readers from across the United States and around the world are demonstrating their support for free speech by participating in a virtual read-out of banned and challenged books that will culminate...
View ArticleKindle downloads now available from US public libraries
Amazon and library e-book vendor OverDrive announced this morning its plan to allow library lending via the Kindle and Kindle app is now live. The service, which will be available at some 11,000...
View ArticleE-book reader usage in USA doubles to 15% year on year
The number of Americans using an e-book reader has almost doubled during the last 12 months to 15%, according to a new Harris Poll survey. The survey also revealed one in six Americans who do not have...
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