Sentences with phrase «e-book business»

The commission opened an investigation into the online retailing giant's e-book business last Thursday over concerns that its contracts with publishers prevented competition from alternative e-book providers.

Sainsbury's exits digital entertainment, hands over e-book business to Kobo — It's amazing how many customers Kobo has inherited from other companies.

The United States Justice Department said that it is satisfied with the reforms that Apple has put in place for compliance with antitrust laws, despite the company having a rocky relationship with an antitrust monitor that was appointed to oversee Apple's e-book business.

Barnes & Noble has announced plans to spin off its floundering Nook e-book business as its revenues continue their long decline.

Keith worked on the launch of the US iBooks store in 2010 and has since led the expansion of Apple's e-book business to 51 countries worldwide.

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«Apple's trial has generated a lot of media coverage, and has captivated the publishing industry, but for the e-book business, the final verdict matters little [emphasis mine],» Andrew Albanese says.

Mark Coker's Smashwords has been the best friend for writers who want to get into the e-book business for the astonishing cost of absolutely nothing.

Even now with the e-book business exploding and many mid-list authors doing the Heimlick maneuver on their backlist so the books can live again on the kindle platform, the big six dummies still don't get it.

Analysts at Piper Jaffray reportedly said that the company could be making more than $ 1 billion from the e-book business alone.

Review by: Paul Morrison on June 12, 2013: It is certainly the right material to anyone in the e-book business to read.

The company said it would spin off the college books unit by August, but keep its Nook tablets and e-book business.

Now, Sony announced that its struggling e-book business will also come to an end.

While folks in the e-book business aren't ready to panic, it'll be interesting to see if this is a temporary slow down or if consumers really do prefer the physical act of page turning once more.

Just look at Sony, who recently sold its e-book business to Kobo.

Even prior to Kobo's entry into the market, though, Livraria Cultura was in the e-book business, hosting more than 200,000 e-books and selling e-reader devices from iRivier and Positivo.

This move, according to Fortune, is «part of Google's latest push into content... It's unclear if this new Google Books iteration will channel Amazon's e-book business, which includes a subscription component similar to Oyster's.»

«We will enhance our e-book business in Asia through Kobo and go global as fast as we can.»

While most thought the biggest news out of Amazon's e-book business this week was the revelation that e-books now eclipse print books, it was actually the launch of the company's second genre imprint in the span of two weeks (and fifth imprint overall) that's the bigger deal.

«They speculated about how they might turn Apple's entry into the e-book business to their advantage in their battle with Amazon.»

Analysts believe it's not outside the realm of possibility for the e-commerce giant, which finds it lush e-book business challenged by sales of Apple's iBooks, which recently crossed 100 million downloads on the iPad and other iOS devices.

European & International Booksellers Federation нуждается в вашей помощи с петицией «Council of the European Union: Tell the EU not to force bookshops out of the e-book business».

Part of it is because BN waited too long to get into the e-book business and its web interface isn't as user friendly as Amazon's.

This allows smaller e-book sellers as well as major platforms in the e-book business to participate.

The absence of a vibrant e-book business in most foreign countries is depriving publishers there of the same advantages.

As the e-book revolution took hold, he developed the Barnes & Noble NOOK e-reader and the e-book business, which includes PubIt!self - publishing service that gives authors the ability to publishing their own e-books and make them available through bn.com.

Amazon, the pioneer of the e-book business, last week unveiled a 139 - dollar wireless - only version of the basic Kindle, less than six weeks after dropping the price of the e-book reader to 189 dollars from 259 dollars.

In May it took over Waterstones» e-book business and in April a partnership with Turkey's D&R bookshop chain was announced.

It's going to take a while for the e-book business to be sorted out.

With overall book sales in Germany experiencing their first minor dip in years (1.4 %), more and more publishers are investing in their e-book business, despite the current lack of overwhelming demand from readers.

It's not that she just touches e-books she is a big - wig, in the e-book business.

Rakuten said the addition of Overdrive will bring its global e-book business close to breakeven in 2015.

Most observers have noted that Apple's e-book business is struggling, including The Unofficial Apple Weblog, who looked at the iBook Store 6 months after launch and found that:

I also wonder how seriously Google will take the e-book business: they still can't even seem to figure out their own name (the website will bounce you from Google E-Books to Google Books to the Google Partner Program with a tab for Google Editions), they haven't yet announced lots of details (like how rights - holders will get paid), and you have to wonder what took them so long and why they don't have their own e-reader.

The move bolsters Rakuten's e-book business and puts a global spin on Overdrive's core function, which revolves around a digital distribution platform that many libraries use to loan out e-books.

The answer is no, according to a source connected to the e-book business.

I mean, considering the fact that the biggest offline seller of books in the US Borders is facing huge financial issues, and the predictions that have been made that Amazon's e-Book business is going to make $ 2.5 billion in 2012, why should the Author's Guild be concerned about some minor issue of Text to Speech on the Kindle!

While both Penguin and Macmillan's responses make reference to Amazon's near - monopoly in the e-book business, Penguin's filing is getting the most attention.

But as strong as the e-book business is, it is still just a ittie bitty thing - a toddler at best.

The price of e-books was also selected by many respondents as a reason for the current slowdown in e-book business.

«Tablets will adversely affect the e-book business in that the tablet is a multifunction device and will therefore draw the reader into non-book activities and therefore cause them to consume books slower and therefore buy fewer books versus a single function e-reading device.»

The E-book business has been pretty competitive of late, and while Amazon has got dibs on some DC Comics, it looks like Barnes & Noble has got its own exclusives as well.

The Battle of $ 9.99: How Apple, Amazon, and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight by Andrew Richard Albanese — $ 1.99 at Kindle Singles

The Kindle rapidly grew the company's e-book business, and Amazon said in May that it was selling more e-books than physical copies of books.

Once again Kobo was earmarked to take over their e-book business for an indeterminate sum of money.

Back in 2007, Bill McCoy — then General Manager of the e-book business at Adobe, now head of publishing at W3C — advocated a watermarking - style solution to replace DRM, which he called «social DRM.»

1) please don't cite the supposed «success» of the e-book business model when total e-book sales account for LESS THEN 1 % of total book sales

Yes, the company entered the mobile e-book business for IOS and Android devices, being backed up by some of the biggest publishers such as Shueish, Shogakukan and Kodansha, to name a few.

He was particularly bullish on Barnes & Noble's e-book business saying that «It is our belief that a spin - off or equity carve out of the e-reader business would create the only e-reader pure - play and would have substantial value to technology investors, who currently have few other avenues to invest in this theme.»

And Apple itself is more like the underdog in this tale — although it's a massive hardware and software company, it had virtually no presence in the e-book business before the iPad came along, and no real chips to play apart from its support for the agency model.