Microsoft rolls out a tablet called “Surface”
Microsoft surfaces with a tablet; The Great Gatsby to hit the silver screen – again; Sainsbury’s buys Anobii from HMVContinue Reading
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Oxford for World Book Capital
Oxford launches bid for World Book Capital 2014; Nook gets Microsoft’s US$300m backing; US DoJ sues big five publishers andContinue Reading
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Vook, Nook and ebooks
Vook enters the ebook fray; Amazon dodges UK tax; Nook tells London: shop online in the US; Mag+ design competition;Continue Reading
Google drop eBookstore affiliates and launches Google Play
Google axes ebook affiliates and Android Market, then launches Google Play; Amazon to publishers: ‘Drop ebook prices or else’; PicadorContinue Reading
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Paolo Coelho pirates his own books
First edition “Les Fleurs du Mal” was sold for over US$5,000 despite glaring typos; indie publishers boycott Amazon; Paolo CoelhoContinue Reading
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Jonathan Franzen: “Ebooks will have a detrimental effect on the world.”
More condemnation on ebooks by doomsayers; Penguin Classics commissions artist Yayoi Kusama for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; the unstoppable riseContinue Reading
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Apple iBook2 “will reinvent textbooks”
Luddites shake fists at Apple iBook 2; Birds of America sold for US$8m; Rushdie kept out of Jaipur book festivalContinue Reading