Sentences with phrase «ibookstore launched»

The iBookstore launched internationally on May 28 of this year, but only select US and public domain works were available to Canadian consumers while the government examined the cultural impact of the iBookstore.

The Australian Apple iBookstore launched paid content today with ebook titles from Hachette Australia, Murdoch Books, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Hardie Grant, Melbourne University Publishing and...

Apple's entry into the ebook market «arrested all ebook price competition,» Buterman concluded, arguing that any innovation in the space around the time that the iBookstore launched either existed before the launch or couldn't be tied to it.

There's also the question of how many books will be available when the iBookstore launches compared to the Kindle's 400,000 - title library.

«Part of that was the interactive iBookstore launch, we're going to be delivering more titles there.

Not exact matches

So your publication date for your internal business use is when you launch it on Kindle, Smashwords, Kobo, iBookstore, and PubIt!.

Taking the witness stand at the antitrust trial between Apple and the DOJ on Wednesday, Apple executive Keith Moerer revealed that the company obtained a 20 % share of the e-book market shortly after launching its iBookstore in 201, and has maintained that share in the two years since.

But The Bookseller reports that Pottermore wasn't able to come to an iBookstore agreement with Apple by the time the Pottermore shop launched.

When Apple was launching their own iBookstore before the Apple iPad 1 came out, they coerced publishers to provide an even playing field so the company could compete against Amazon.

They launch in the iBookstore with over 200 titles, including Hellboy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mass Effect, and the Star Wars comics, which may bring a whole new audience to these graphic novels — now a search in the iBookstore will turn up Star Wars graphic novels as well as the prose novels.

E.g. can I publish a book in italian in the iBookstore through Lulu or the language of publication is country - specific (English and maybe spanish only for the U.S. iBookstore, Italian only for the Italian iBookstore — when it'll be launched, and so on)?

Almost immediately after Apple launched its iBookstore in April 2010 and the Publisher Defendants imposed agency model pricing on all retailers, the Publisher Defendants» e-book prices for most newly released and bestselling e-books rose to either $ 12.99 or $ 14.99.

When Apple was going to launch the iBookstore they convinced all of the head honchos at the largest publishing companies to standardize e-book pricing.

The short story is that Apple, when it was launching the iBookstore, met with all the big publishing companies to break Amazon's monopoly on ebooks.

First: 100 million e-books have been sold through the iBookstore since its April 2010 launch.

This makes it such that until new deals can be struck with assorted retailers and the Big 5, a bunch of books will only be available at the newly launched iBookstore.

Under current terms, the publishers would distribute approximately $ 162.25 million to customers who bought e-books at any digital outlet between the iBookstore's launch on April 1st, 2010 and May 21st, 2012.

Apple intends on launching its iBookstore in Japan very soon.

Random House U.S. this year adopted the model for its e-books, thereby gaining entry to Apple's iBookstore right before the launch of the iPad 2.

Sources close to the matter have told us that they intend on launching a new digital self - publishing platform to get peoples content into the iBookstore.

What is even more interesting (apart from that the announcement comes just hours ahead of the iPad2 official launch) is that the Random House e-books have made it to the iBookstore just 2 days after it had adopted the Agency Pricing methodology.

Normally, Marvel titles are contained within their official app, but now they are launching them in the Apple iBookstore.

Dark Horse comics available right in the Kobo Store is good news for the company because Apple just launched graphic novels and comics in the iBookstore.

The iBookstore is launching with titles from major publishers such as Penguin, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group and Macmillan.

And because Apple launched it with an iBookstore with major publisher to compete head on with Amazon.

Before the launch of the iBookstore, the market was «headed nowhere good.»

With the iBookstore's launch, Snyder claimed that many more parties have been able to start selling ebooks — everyone from «little brownstones in Vermont» to «solo authors acting without a publisher.»

In the DOJ's opening argument, attorney Lawrence Buterman described the launch of the iBookstore in April 2010 as «the day the prices of the most popular ebooks went up across the United States as much as 50 percent... The $ 9.99 price for ebooks that [customers] had become accustomed to was largely gone.»

Apple has alleged that its launching of the iBookstore helped «break «Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry.»»

Heiss sought to demonstrate that Amazon needed participation from all of the Big 6 publishers in order to launch the Kindle Store in 2007,; to make it clear that Amazon was aware of publishers» dislike of the $ 9.99 price point long before Apple came on the scene; and to show that Amazon had reasons of its own to switch to agency pricing, beyond the notion that Apple's launch of the iBookstore forced it to.

It claims that, among the large publishers who've supported the iBookstore since launch on 3 April, sales through the iBookstore now represent 22 % of their ebook sales.

Heiss sought to show that Amazon was not unfamiliar with agency pricing before Apple launched the iBookstore.

At the Publishers Launch Conference in Frankfurt last week, Italian publisher Mondadori said that when it started selling e-books in the Italian Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iBookstore, sales «exploded» in the first four days, jumping from 150 to 1,000 copies sold per day.

Reports surfaced more than a month ago suggesting that the Department of Justice had launched an investigation into whether or not Apple had colluded with publishers to raise the prices of eBooks sold through Apple's iBookstore.

Apple counters that the system of agency pricing it arranged with the publishers is the same as what it uses with all other retailers in iTunes, and that the launch of iBookstore created competition in the marketplace.

At the time of the iPad / iBooks launch there were 120,000 book apps in AppStore — twice as much as books in the iBookstore.

Apple had this to say about the allegations: The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry.

The same day Apple announced launching the iPad, it was also announced that Apple already struck deals with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster to switch to the Agency model for Apple's iBookstore — the application on Apple's iPad that functions as an eBook reader (thus competing directly with the Amazon Kindle).

I would argue that after launching the iBookstore with great fanfare Apple is acting very much like a company that doesn't much care about ebooks.

There is no word yet from Apple or Irish publishers on what titles and on what basis ebooks will be available on launch of the iPad and iBookstore.

Jobs» comments were made in June, several months after the iPad and iBookstore were both launched.

Four of the largest publishers in the UK, Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette UK and HarperCollins had a presence on Apple's iBookstore when the iPad launched there.

Apple has just launched a separate comics / graphic novels section for its iBookstore.

Apple's launch of the iBookstore and then the iPad mini made for a one - two punch that did more to knock out the Nook than Amazon's launch of the Kindle Fire HD.

Change is the constant, and this week finds us looking at online reviews, book launches, scheduling your writing, and a lot of attention for Apple's iBookstore.

Amazon had a 90 % share of the eBook market when Apple entered the space, but the retail giant's share has reportedly dropped to as low as 60 % since Apple launched the iBookstore in 2010.