Sentences with phrase «general ebook consumers»

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NEW YORK, NY — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today that the $ 400 million for consumers in the settlement of the eBooks litigation with Apple Inc. will be distributed this week.

The funds were appropriated by the General Assembly in response to a report by the Department of Consumer Protection which recommended, in light of the high cost libraries pay for eBooks, that the state develop its own eBook Platform.

You might have noticed that eBooks tend to cost less than paperback books — there's a general consumer expectation that they should be a bit cheaper.

Well, suffice it to say that individuals and groups associated with the defendants are sounding off through the comment process, and they are making very strong claims to the general effect that DOJ's efforts to protect consumers against ebook price - fixing are misguided, because the DOJ should instead be protecting the interests and the distribution infrastructure of the same publishers who colluded with Apple to raise ebook prices by 30 to 100 percent back in 2010.

An attorney general from Connecticut told Reuters that he felt like all fifty states, all commonwealths, and all US territories would be signing the settlement; some estimates of the cost to consumers as a result of the price increase on ebooks are as high as $ 250 million.

«This settlement helps consumers who were overcharged get back some money for their past purchases,» said Attorney General Jepsen, «and to ensure competitive eBook prices in possible future purchases.»

In this issue you'll still find news about new Kindle features, other ebook readers, benchmarks in the ongoing Kindle Revolution, and insightful analysis by Publetariat founder (and Kindle Nation general manager) April Hamilton on ebook business - to - consumer models.

On Friday Macmillan actually agreed to settle three lawsuits all at once — the ebook pricing case brought by the Department of Justice, but also the parallel case led by a consortium of attorneys general for the states and even the class - action case filed on behalf of consumers.

While some of this has to do with hardware availability, school purchasing limitations, and general infrastructure issues, there are a few issues with educational publisher behavior that have contributed to eBooks being adopted far less in schools than in the consumer market.

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott have reached agreements with Hachette and HarperCollins to provide consumer restitution using a formula based on the number of states participating and the number of eBooks sold in each state.

«The key aspect was a return to agency whereby Hachette, and all publishers in general, have control over the consumer price for ebooks.

After a preliminary review, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal commented, «These agreements among publishers, Amazon and Apple appear to have already resulted in uniform prices for many of the most popular eBooks — potentially depriving consumers of competitive prices.»

«We are excited about Google joining the largest ecosystem of content distributors that believe in giving consumers the freedom to read ebooks across platforms and device types,» said Dave Burkett, vice president and general manager, Creative Solutions Business, Adobe.

Preference for the ebook format is lower among podcast consumers (16.1 %) than for general book consumers (18.9 %), once again suggesting that it might not be the overall technological advancement of a given format attracting podcast consumers, but rather the audio form itself.