We may be about to witness the final chapter in the Apple e-book antitrust lawsuit. Publishers Weekly reports that the $400 million in refunds Apple has agreed to pay e-book consumers will be dis...
http://teleread.com/400-million-in-apple-price-fixing-refunds-will-begin-disbursal-june-21/
The best e-reading app for iOS just got a little bit better. Kristian Guillaumier, developer of the iOS e-reader Marvin, let me know that Appstafarian has just released Marvin 3 onto the iOS app ...
http://teleread.com/appstafarian-releases-marvin-3-a-worthy-successor-to-both-marvin-and-gerty/
Remember that Australian government committee report suggesting Australia should relax restrictions on parallel importation, implement a US-style “fair use” exception, and drastically shorten...
Last month, I covered Codex Group President Peter Hildick-Smith’s presentation at BookExpo America on the impact decreasing e-ink reader use is having on e-book purchasing. Now Jim Milliot at P...
http://teleread.com/codex-group-tablets-killing-e-books-report-revisited/
In an article Michael Kozlowski posted yesterday on GoodEReader, he reports on a poll the site took asking about the next e-reader site readers planned to buy. The poll received 633 responses, an...
A few days ago I mentioned the “smell of books” in the context of scents that various perfume and other scented-product manufacturers are trying to produce. The aroma is caused by various che...
A number of Fire owners have found their tablets spontaneously factory resetting themselves. We first covered this issue in April, when some owners of Fire HD devices found their tablets spontane...
http://teleread.com/freetime-update-deregisters-fires-loses-user-data/
As I’ve mentioned before, Amazon is a victim of rampant click-fraud attempts, as scammers out there think they’ve found some new way of banging on the Amazon piñata until some money falls ou...
http://teleread.com/amazon-fraud-fighting-efforts-sweep-up-innocent-prawny-authors-in-their-net/
Here’s a quick update on a story I did in April about the Indianapolis Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library raising funds to move to new facilities. The Vonnegut Library has launched a Kickstarter to...
The Supreme Court has produced an interesting post-script to the landmark Kirtsaeng v. Wiley case, in which it had previously ruled permitted importation and resale of less-expensive textbooks fr...
http://teleread.com/supreme-court-tells-lower-court-to-reconsider-denying-kirtsaeng-legal-fees/