Apple
November 22, 2016 at 1:54 pm
Pottermore, the digital content company for J K Rowling's Harry Potter books, returned to growth in its last financial year after the firm’s decision to make its ebooks and audiobooks available via Amazon, Apple, Audible and others “really paid off”. In the year to end-March 2016, sales more than doubled to £15.1m, compared to £7m…
August 8, 2016 at 11:56 am
A smartphone will not make us smart. Its intrinsic mobility means that it can never really hold our full attention. We don't read stories anymore. Instead we flit between fragments. Never lingering. Constantly moving. Like printed pocketbooks, smartphone reading is essentially a narrative subdivided into easily referenceable, bitesize chunks. Poetry and psalms replaced by Twitter…
June 22, 2016 at 2:16 pm
Ebook buyers affected by Apple's alleged price-fixing scheme will receive a bit of money starting Tuesday. Millions of ebook purchasers will get either credits or checks for twice their losses, legal firm Hagens Berman, which helped litigate the class action lawsuit, said on Tuesday. Apple is on the hook for $400 million in damages plus…
June 9, 2016 at 2:11 pm
In an ongoing push to promote ebooks in Mexico, the third annual Ink International Digital Novel Prize launched its call for submissions this month. The program is organized by Mexican digital publisher Editorial Ink and the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM). The jury includes Mexican writers Ana Clavel and Raúl Avilés Fabila, and Daniel Ferreira of Colombia. The winner sees his or…
May 16, 2016 at 11:38 am
Before Steve Jobs passed away, he oversaw the creation of iBooks Author, a technology he hoped would "digitally destroy" the educational textbook market. This software would make it easier than ever before to publish a digital book. And by including multimedia, such as high-resolution photography, audio, and video, it would make it easier than ever…
April 22, 2016 at 1:26 pm
For years, there has been a limit to the success of American technology companies in China. Capture too much market share or wield too much influence, and Beijing will push back. Apple has largely been an exception to that trend. Yet the Silicon Valley company is now…
March 29, 2016 at 2:27 pm
Apple is missing the boat on ebooks. And there’s billions of dollars at stake. PWC estimates the 2018 US e-book market at $9B, FutureBook estimates the UK market at £381.5m. Apple gets 10%. That’s abysmal, considering the ubiquity of Apple devices. The Amazon/Hachette fiasco revealed that many in the book world don’t really like Amazon.…
March 7, 2016 at 11:49 am
Apple Inc. must pay $450 million to end an antitrust suit after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to question a finding that the company orchestrated a scheme to raise the prices for electronic books. The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal by Apple, leaving intact a federal appeals court ruling favoring the U.S. Justice…
March 1, 2016 at 11:25 am
When Apple introduced the iPad in 2010, many thought it would make dedicated ebook readers obsolete. But six years later, it turns out that didn’t happen. In fact, both categories are still growing. In its latest forecast on ereader and tablet usage, eMarketer predicts the number of ereader users will grow this year by 3.5%,…
February 23, 2016 at 2:19 pm
Michael Tamblyn finds himself in an unenviable position. He has a great job – he’s the new CEO of Rakuten Kobo Inc. – but the easy days of ebook sales seem to be over, and industry estimates suggest 2015 was a flat year for ebook purchases in North America. That said, Kobo has 26 million…
