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  • 20 Dec 2010 Random House UK Ebook Sales up 800% (The Bookseller) Read more

     

  • 19 Nov 2010 - 5 Top Tech Gadgets of 2010 (Yahoo Finance) Read more

     

  • 3 Nov 2010 Sony Readies Reader Ebook App for iPhone Sony has taken a leaf out of Amazon's e-book and is preparing e-book reader apps for both the iPhone and Android. (RegHardware.com) Read more
     

  • Amazon Will Let You Loan eBooks To A Friend - But Publishers Can Turn It Off (Business Insider) Read more

     

  • 14 Oct 2010 2nd Biggest Ebook Sales Month restores confidence. (Ereads) Read more

     

  • 19 Sep 2010 Premier eBook Domain, eBook.com, is up for sale. "DNAML Pty. Ltd., the leading eBook solution provider, has announced that it will sell the domain name, eBook.com. Viant Capital, LLC, a San Francisco-based investment bank, is managing the auction process for ebook.com" (PRWeb)  Read more

     

  • 19 Sep 2010 iBooks more popular than Facebook and Twitter.  "The iBooks application on the Apple iPad is one of the most popular apps on the device, exceeding popular social networking apps for Facebook or Twitter." (The Bookseller)  Read more

     

  • 16 Aug 2010 Technology Provides Another Way to Access Library Ebooks and Audiobooks  (Canada.com)  Read more

     

  • 30 Jul 2010 Amazon's CEO Bezos Predicts Ebooks Will Overtake Paperbacks Within 12 Months (USA Today)  Read more

     

  • 30 Jul 2010 Battle Lines Drawn Over Digital Royalties (The Bookseller)  Read more

     

  • 26 July 2010 Authors Guild Weighs In on Odyssey Editions, Warns Publishers to Raise E-book Royalties (Publishers Weekly) Read more

     

  • 2 Jun 2010 Sony Predicts Ebooks Will Overtake Print Within 5 Years. "Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading business division, said: 'Within five years there will be more digital content sold than physical content. Three years ago, I said within ten years but I realised that was wrong - it's within five.' "
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  • 24 May 2010 E-Book Sales Jumped 252% in First Quarter, AAP Reports. (Publishers Weekly) Read more

     

  • 17 May 2010 - "The Booksellers Association (UK) has launched a Digital Guide to Multi-Channel Bookselling for booksellers, designed to maximise opportunities to reach e-book customers." (The Bookseller)  Read more

  • 11 May 2010 - China to Set Up Rules for New Ebook Market: "China is planning to make rules regulating the production of e-readers and the downloads of electronic publications via the Internet...Almost all of China's IT enterprises want to enter the e-book market, and relevant government departments fear that the market would be left in disorder without regulations in place..." (China Daily) Read more

  • 7 May 2010 - "US publishers are experiencing strong sales on the iPad after just one month of selling iBooks on the new device." (The Bookseller) Read more

  • 29 Apr 2010 - A Few Weeks in, Here is a Breakdown of iPad's eBooks (O'Reilly Radar) Read more

  • 22 Apr 2010 - "Hachette Children's UK is to launch its first e-book range in May and will make around 120 titles available as e-books this year. The publisher plans to keep the same pricing for its e-books as its printed editions and is moving towards simultaneous publication of printed books and e-books, where possible." (The Bookseller) Read more

  • 23 Apr 2010 - Unlike the Kindle, the iPad Reading Experience Emulates Books: When Apple's iPad debuted on April 3, it was greeted in some quarters of the tech world by a chorus of critiques. With no phone, no camera and no multitasking, how could it be revolutionary? And yet, when it comes to the iPad's e-reader, revolutionary is exactly what it might be." (BrandX) Read more

  • 16 Apr 2010 - Publishers Association (UK) Reports Digital Book Industry Now 5% of Total Sales (The Bookseller) Read more

  • 26 Mar 2010 - iPad To Have Over 30,000 Free eBooks (TechEye) Read more 

  • 21 Mar 2010 - Ebook Marketing Exploding: "The ebook market is growing faster as it grows larger...The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) on Friday reported U.S. wholesale ebook sales for January, 2010 were $31.9 million, up 261 percent from the same month a year earlier." (Teleread) Read more

  •  22 Mar 2010 - 'There is a "Copernican shift" in the market, which is putting content, rather than the physical book, at the center.' (The Bookseller) Read more

  • 12 Mar 2010 - Digital Textbooks are Ready for Prime Time, says NYU Bookstores: "The technology is in place, the books are highly interactive, and students own powerful portable devices. Moreover, traditional textbook costs are rising, and students are quite comfortable with searching, shopping and learning online." (PR Newswire)

  • 4 Mar 2010 - Barnes & Noble to Test Bundling Ebooks with Paperbooks: "Barnes & Noble will begin testing the sale of bundled print books and e-books in the next 60 to 90 days... Providing e-books and print book bundles is just one way B&N hopes to use its retail footprint to increase sales of e-books while maintaining its lead position as the nation's largest bookseller." (Publishers Weekly) Read more

  • 20 Jan 2010 - Amazon Announces Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text: "For each Kindle book sold, authors and publishers who choose the new 70 percent royalty option will receive 70 percent of list price, net of delivery costs... This new 70 percent royalty option will become available on June 30, 2010. "

  • 22 Feb 2010 - Ebook Sales Jump 176% In Flat Trade Year: "E-book sales from the 13 publishers that report figures to the Association of American Publishers soared 176.6% in 2009, to $169.5 million, the AAP reported Friday. The jump in e-book sales coupled with a slight decline in sales of print trade books increased e-book's share of trade sales from 1.2% in 2008 to 3.3% in 2009." (Publishers Weekly) Read more

  • 10 Jan 2010 - How E-Books Are Changing The Printed Word: "Sales will go from about $150 million last year . . . to an estimated billion-dollar business by 2012, as new products from tech companies like Apple flood the market." (CBS News) Read more

  • 28 Dec 2009 - Amazon Ebook Sales Overtake Print For First Time: "Spare a thought for the humble hardback this Christmas. It seems the traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on Christmas Day..." (Guardian) Read more




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