Sentences with phrase «prevents ebook retailers»

One state has already passed a privacy act of sorts for readers that prevents ebook retailers from turning over information on reading data to law enforcement agencies.

Not exact matches

Throughout the recent controversy over inappropriate and explicit content being listed in ebook retail websites alongside children's and middle grade titles, the same questions kept coming to the surface: how did this happen, and how do we prevent it?

The only thing a settlement with the Justice Department will do will prevent the publishers from dictating an ebooks retail price.

Smashwords also had to increase its staff by 50 % in the last few weeks to keep up with its strict adherence to what it feels prevents the flood of ebook piracy, spam, and PLR titles from reaching the online retailer sites; these flawed - content titles have sparked a lot of contention among ebook proponents.

This requirement of an interest age rating may have stemmed from the recent controversy surrounding explicit titles that were available — some say maliciously so, which a self - policed interest age rating may not prevent — in the children's book sections of a variety of ebook retail websites, an issue that caused several retailers to make sweeping deletions of book titles until the matter could be resolved.

The story also examines the part that the Big Six have played in trying to prevent the development of ebooks, especially where maintaining a working relationship with Amazon is concerned; the authors are quick to point out that the major publishers only began their acceptance of ebooks once other options for retail ebook selling appeared.

I can't see this as anything but a convenient excuse for publishers to jack up ebook prices, which they've always wanted to do but been prevented by retailers like Amazon, who have the gall to claim they know something about what ebook buyers are willing to pay.

It was important to 3M that the device they developed not to have any retail ebook capabilities or wi - fi / 3G in order to prevent the theft of the devices since content can only be loaded onto the e-readers through valid cloud synchronization accounts.

The tech magnate obviously doesn't think so, and has fired back in court briefs about the abusive requests the DOJ is making, requests which include steps that prevent Apple from working in the agency model — one of the major sources of these allegations in the first place — for five years rather than the proposed two, as well as insisting that Apple allow retailers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble to sell ebooks through their iOS - capable apps and receive a commission on those sales like an affiliate would.

Like the U.S. settlement, the proposed EU settlement requires Apple and settling publishers to terminate their agency agreements and, for two years, prevents publishers from «restrict [ing], limit [ing] or imped [ing] ebook retailers» ability to set, alter or reduce retail prices for ebooks and / or to offer discounts or promotions.»

Of keen interest: This morning, Friday, as today's column moves, Campbell has published Industry response sought to explicit ebook furor, in which we learn that the UK's Booksellers Association says «it will urgently consider an industry initiative to prevent explicit self - published ebooks becoming available on mainstream retailers» websites.»

The ebook retail platform would probably increase their overall sales with the added bonus of preventing forever [a] PR disaster like the one that took place last weekend.

There are a few exceptions: The settlement allows publishers the option to negotiate retailer contracts that include «a commitment from an e-book retailer that a retailer's aggregate expenditure on discounts and promotions of the Settling Defendant's ebooks will not exceed the retailer's aggregate commission» — though that doesn't prevent deep discounts on specific titles.

Most eBook retailers protect their books with DRM, which prevents other readers from accessing the content.