December 2011

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from eBookNook.ca!

by Sheila Wallace on Saturday, December 24, 2011, 9:51 am · 1 comment

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A first in Canadian journalism: eBook collections of news articles

by Sheila Wallace on Monday, December 19, 2011, 1:22 pm

in News,Publishing,Trends

The National Post in Canada is introducing an eBook publishing program to offer readers the opportunity to purchase the news site’s various collections: Through National Post ebooks, readers around the world will be able to purchase collections of our best work from Apple’s iTunes, Amazon, Kobo Books, the Google ebookstore and the Sony ReaderStore. Our [...]

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Updates to the Apple-eBook publishers price fixing story

by Sheila Wallace on Monday, December 19, 2011, 9:00 am

in News,Publishing,Trends

I’d posted about this here and wondered how it could be considered price fixing. The following makes it clearer that it most certainly sounds like price fixing: An agreement between six major publishers has seen prices rocket for many books worldwide – some of which are more expensive than the paper version. The agreement includes [...]

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Apple under investigation for alleged eBook price fixing

by Sheila Wallace on Monday, December 12, 2011, 1:46 pm · 1 comment

in News,Publishing,Technology

From ITProPortal: The US Department of Justice has announced that it has started an anti-trust probe against Apple and its partners for allegedly fixing the prices of ebooks. [...] The regulators have reason to believe that Apple conspired with book publishers on its iBooks ebook platform. If you read on in the article, it says [...]

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