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- Amazon v. Sony, et.al., in War of the eBook Giants
- The recent decision by Sony to drop its proprietary publishing platform in favor of the open ePub platform for digital books represents a turning point in the rapid development of the eBook publishing industry. It further isolates Amazon among the biggest players, with more moves in what has become a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Google Offers Free Downloads of a Million Books
- Google is in a class of its own in the sheer scale and ambition of what it chooses to do, and today's announcement that the search giant will make over a million public domain books available for free downloads in the open-source ePub platform is a prime example of that...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
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- Sony Adopts EPUB as It Fights Amazon.com for E-book Readers
- Sony announces that it will adopt the XML-based EPUB format for its eBook store, which will allow users to buy and read e-books even if they do not have a Sony Reader. Adopting the EPUB standard is seen as Sony's latest move against Amazon.com and its Kindle e-reader.Sony is adopting...
- News items 2009-08-13
- With Sony's ePub Move, Adobe Wins
- Sony's announcement today that it's throwing open the doors of its e-book store and reading devices to the ePub standard is certainly good news for consumers. ePub — and open standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Form — is already supported by a growing number of major publishers and...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Google Releases Books in Portable EPUB Format
- Google's massive supply of public domain books just got a bit more portable. The company today announced that it would be releasing more than one million books in the format, which is compatible with the iPhone, Android handsets, and e-readers from Sony and Plastic Logic. The open standard format also...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Sony Adopts Open (But Still DRMed) Format for eBooks
- In a move that took most industry pundits by surprise, Sony today announced that it will adopt the open ePub standard as the default format for books in its eBook store by the end of the year. EPub is an XML-based standard for publishing eBooks that has been adopted by...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Sony Battles Amazon With Open E-Book Standard
- Sony said Thursday that it would sell books in the EPub format by the end of the year and adopt Adobe's technology that restricts how often an e-book can be copied. The open format would replace the proprietary technology Sony has been using to tie books sold through its online...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Smashwords Broadens its Reach to Publishers
- Over its first year of operations, the eBook publishing platform and online book store Smashwords has catered mainly to authors, publishing some 1,200 titles from about 600 authors. As is fitting on its first-year anniversary, Smashwords announced today that it is broadening its services to add support for book publishers....
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Sony, in another swipe at Kindle, moves to open e-book standard
- Sony has been pulling out all the stops lately as it tries to make its electronic readers more competitive with Amazon's Kindle. First Sony tapped Google's massive book-scanning project to boost its list of titles, then it announced it's coming out with a $199 reader -- a hundred dollars less...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Google joins Sony in backing open e-book format
- Google is making over a million books available for free download in ePub, an open format that devices such as iPods, iPhones and Sony Readers can use. The company, which is in the middle of an ambitious plan to scan and digitize all of the world's books, announced the move...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Sony turns e-reader page
- When Sony introduced the first commercially available electronic book reader in Japan four years ago, I was among the lucky few in the west to get their hands on a review unit. I liked the hardware but was disappointed by the lack of low-cost content. The Sony Librié was a...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Amazon Boosts Kindle Features
- The PDF support is an important feature given the popularity of the format among businesses. Amazon's major rivals, Sony and Barnes & Noble, offer PDF support in their e-readers, the Reader and Nook, respectively. Amazon has had a PDF reader in the larger Kindle DX, which is...
- News items 2009-11-24
- Amazon buys iPhone e-reader app
- Amazon has paid an undisclosed sum to acquire Lexcycle, the maker of free iPhone e-book app, Stanza. The move shows a clear effort from the online retailer to corner the e-book market. The firm already makes the world’s bestselling e-book reader, the Kindle, and recently launched its own e-reader...
- Articles 2009-04-27
- More Competition on the E-Book Front
- Although a number of companies, including Sony, have been in the e-book reader business for a while, Amazon really seems to have taken the category by storm, at least in terms of buzz, even though Sony has been moving a fair number of units -- witness the Forrester report that...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Amazon's Kindle to go international
- Amazon said it would begin selling an international version of its popular e-reader that will work in more than 100 countries on October 19. The world's largest online retailer also said it was lowering the price of the Kindle 2 in the US from $299 to $259, a move likely...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Amazon's Kindle to go international
- Amazon said it would begin selling an international version of its popular e-reader that will work in more than 100 countries on October 19.The world's largest online retailer also said it was lowering the price of the Kindle 2 in the US from $299 to $259, a move likely...
- External links 2009-10-07
- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's features, and the comparison offered by B&N to the $259 Amazon Kindle 2, reveals that, while it packs a...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Congratulations B&N, you've built my Kindroid. So now what?
- The Barnes and Noble "Nook", which was launched earlier this month, is the real-life version of the "Kindroid" I envisioned one year ago. So now that it has been built for real, what do we do with it? A year ago, I posited that Amazon might do better with the...
- News items 2009-10-29
- E-readers: To be open or not to be open -- that is the question
- Computerworld - As e-readers grow in popularity, a debate is growing about how well proprietary formats such as Amazon.com uses with the Kindle will do against more open approaches that allow users to download e-books to just about any device. LibreDigital Inc. is previewing its AllAccess content delivery platform to...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Nook vs. Kindle Portends the Next Wave of Android Disruption
- Joel West submits: James Fallows has a detailed comparison of the Nook and Kindle. Clearly by using ePub, Barnes is challenging Amazon’s AMZN proprietary vertically integrated content distribution system. One interesting angle mentioned by Fallows is that Google GOOG books is making its existing online out of copyright books...
- External links 2009-11-03
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