Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo will likely adopt Google Pay within their Android apps in the coming days, but e-reading apps
issued by major publishers will likely take longer.
Not exact matches
Last year, Next
Issue Media, the digital newsstand joint venture backed
by the
major magazine
publishers, produced a study on the value of tablets to magazine and newspaper
publishers, and concluded that the aggregate revenue could be $ 3 billion
by 2014.
On Mike Shatzkin's blog, he speculated that the
publishers» decision to delay the e-book versions of some
major upcoming titles isn't «a battle to rescue hardcover books from price perception
issues caused
by inexpensive ebooks» so much as it is about «wresting control of their ebook destinies back from Amazon.»
Somehow, due to the
issues with Amazon local store raised
by an independent author, it seems Amazon has a work cut out for the KDP team to win back the impression they have vowed to facilitate self -
publishers to succeed with little help from
major publishers.
It is difficult to judge the
issue of quality but, based on the number of times a title published
by Baen Books appeared in the bestseller lists produced
by the
major bookselling chains, it is ranked the seventh most popular science fiction
publisher.
To what extent it will succeed in filling the gaps created
by the failure of the
major legal
publishers to address the
issue of loose - leafs remains to be seen.
Needless to say, the lawsuit triggered a
major review of licensing practices
by the legal
publishers who took immediate steps to ensure that the
issue was addressed in publishing agreements negotiated after the date that the lawsuit was initiated.
The real
issue being faced
by the
major legal
publishers is the loss of the expectation of ever increasing revenue and profit from their online services that they had come to expect as a matter of right.