Tag Archive | Amazon

E-Book Pricing – Apple, Amazon, the Courts, and You

 July 1, 2015 New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday E-Book publishers have not developed any new technology, in a long, long time, “E- BOOKS – IS THE E-BOOK DEAD, OR JUST ASLEEP?” Instead they are still mired in disputes about pricing, and Price Fixing. Here’s the latest. Court Ruling: Apple Conspired with e-book Publishers 7/30/15 From: […]

AMAZON / AUTHORS, YOU, Part 2 – 2015

New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday January 7, 2015 WILL THIS BE THE YEAR OF THE (NEW) BOOK? In our post of November 12, 2014, AMAZON: BOOK, PUBLISHER, SELLER, YOU, we reported on the state of affairs between Amazon and book publishers, quoting an article appearing in the  December 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, “The War of the […]

ARE E- BOOK SUBSCRIPTIONS WORTH IT? A HANDY GUIDE

  Published Early This Week In our post titled, “Could this be Netflix? “ we wrote, “On our Purpose Page we observed that, “Just as the iPod changed the shape of the music industry, the entire book publishing industry, is on the brink of a paradigm change.” Now, two companies outside book publishing offer unlimited […]

E-MUSEUMS – THE NEW MET INTERACTIVE ( Check This Out!)

New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday at 8:30pm ET. NEW MET INTERACTIVE The new MET Interactive, One Met. Many Worlds,  is a beautiful use of New Media technology. As ArtDaily , said, NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced the launch of One Met. Many Worlds., […]

E -BOOKS: KINDLE FIRST – IS AMAZON TIPTOEING TOWARD “BOOKFLIX”?

New Post goes up every Wednesday at 8:30 pm ET In our post titled,  “Could this be Netflix? ” we wrote, “On our Purpose Page we observed that, “Just as the iPod changed the shape of the music industry,  the entire book publishing industry, is on the brink of a paradigm change.” Now, two companies outside […]

E-BOOK PRICES, AMAZON AND APPLE – TWO ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM

New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday 8:30pm ET TWO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BOOK MARKET – ARE HIGHER PRICES ON THE WAY? On July 4, 2013 The New York Times reported that Amazon had announced it was cutting its discounts on books because the competition was waining. As quoted by David Strieifield  in his New […]

E- BOOKS- “IT’S MY E-BOOK, AND I’LL SELL IF I WANT TO, RIGHT?”

New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday at 8:30 pm ET. THE STORYTELLER, by Jodi Picoult, is #1 on the New York Times  Fiction Best Seller List of March 25, 2013. JANE BUYS A BOOK Select the correct answer: 1. Jane lives in the U.S. She  buys a hard copy of the novel, The Storyteller, by […]

ENHANCED E- BOOK, E+, THE NOVEL – ANNA KARENINA / Анна Каренина

Tolstoy in Uniform “Все счастли́вые се́мьи похо́жи друг на дру́га, ка́ждая несчастли́вая семья́ несчастли́ва по-сво́ему.” “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” New post goes up each Wednesday at 8:30 pm ET. Third  in a Series of 3 on  e+ the enhanced e-book. Anna Karenina / Анна Каренина […]

FREE E-BOOKS – A BOOK,  NOT BY ITS COVER

FREE E-BOOKS – A BOOK, NOT BY ITS COVER

A New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday at 8:30 PM ET SOME DAY … Have you ever said, “Some day …,” you’re going to read all the great books you’ve always wanted to read? Have you ever said, now that books are digital, “Some day …,” you’re going to read all the great books you’ve […]

E-BOOKS- HARRY POTTER AND THE APPLE / AMAZON CASE

A new Post goes up every Wednesday at 8:30 PM ET. NOTE: This post has proved so popular we are re-publishing it this week. THE ANTITRUST CASE By now, almost everyone has heard of the Antitrust case against Apple for its “agency model” of getting an e-book from the author, to the publisher, to the […]