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Kobo Launches Bigger High-Res eReader; Scores Hosseini Exclusive in Brazil

April 15, 2013
By Michael Cader

Kobo still believes in eInk dedicated readers, reinforced in today’s announcement from the London Book Fair: Later this month they will release an oversized eInk reader with a 6.8-inch display (most other readers have screens that are 6 inches or smaller). They say the 265 dpi device “offers 30 percent more reading surface and the […]

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Proposed UK Copyright Changes Would Allow Personal, Private Copying of eBooks

December 20, 2012
By Michael Cader

The latest step in a process that has been underway for a while, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office published their proposals for changes to the country’s copyright law to provide “greater freedom to use copyright works such as computer games, paintings, photographs, films, books, and music, while protecting the interests of authors and right owners…. […]

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Little Brown UK At Odds with Authors Over Tor’s DRM-Free eBooks

August 15, 2012
By Michael Cader

The industry debate over whether or not to remove DRM from ebooks has moved from philosophical and strategic differences of opinion to a potential contract (and territorial) dispute that threatens to strand some authors in the middle. On opposing sides are Little Brown UK–a substantial sci-fi and fantasy publisher through the Orbit imprint–and Tor, which […]

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez eBooks Available Through Co-Venture Between Leer-e and Random House Mondadori

March 6, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

On the eve of his 85th birthday Tuesday, Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s international bestseller 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE is now available in ebook format in multiple Spanish-speaking countries thanks to a co-publishing arrangement between Garcia Marquez’s longtime print publisher Random House Mondadori and Spanish ebook company Leer-e. It’s the fourth book by Garcia Marquez […]

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eNews: Indiebound Reader App Launches; eBooks in Europe; and More

December 2, 2011
By Sarah Weinman

Indiebound has launched its ebook reading app, Indiebound Reader, in conjunction with Bluefire, as announced in August (and originally set for release in October). So far the app is only available for Android devices, but “it will soon be available” for iOS devices. Consistent with Apple’s revised rules, the iOS version will be for reading […]

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Another Frontier for Kindle: Japan

October 20, 2011
By Michael Cader

Amazon is moving quickly on their expansion of the Kindle platform into multiple languages. Both the Nikkei business daily and Jiji press in Japan report that the company is close to launching a Japanese Kindle store, “hoping to start the business in time for the Christmas sales season.” Japanese publishers were understandably concerned about ebook […]

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