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EU opens investigation into ebooks
The European Commission has announced it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether publishers Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Holtzbrinck 'have,...
EU Competition Commission to investigate Apple agency pricing agreements
The European Union (EU) Competition Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into agency pricing agreements for ebooks between Apple and five major international publishers. The commis...
Finch launches ebook program
Finch Publishing has announced the launch of its ebook program. Marketing and publicity manager Laura Boon told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the publisher's ‘leading thirty titles... ar...
Apple releases iBooks update, self-publishing app
Apple has released a new version of its iBooks application for iPad and a new self-publishing application, which together will allow Apple users to self-publish multimedia ebooks through the iBookstor...
Canadian indie publishers get onto iBookstore
Four months after Apple’s iBookstore debuted in Canada, titles by independent Canadian publishers are beginning to make their way onto the store’s virtual shelves, reports Quill & Qu...
Burgess appointed manager, iBooks Australia and NZ
Chris Burgess has announced he has been appointed to the role of manager, iBooks Australia and New Zealand for Apple. Burgess, who has been in the role of general manager at ReadHowYouWant s...
Hachette Australia launches ebooks on Australian iBookstore under agency model, Kobo launch to follow
Hachette Australia has announced that its ebooks will be among those available on the Apple iBookstore Australia, which launched its first paid local content yesterday, and will be available on the Ko...
Apple iBookstore goes live for Australia with six local publishers' ebooks
After only offering free out-of-copyright titles to Australian customers since May, the Australian Apple iBookstore launched with local paid content yesterday. Among the first group of six Australian ...
iPad helps Kindle grow market share
The release of thew Apple iPad has actually seen the market share for Amazon's Kindle service grow, with many iPad users reading Kindle ebooks via an app.
iBooks 'more popular than Facebook or Twitter' with UK iPad users
More UK-based owners of Apple's iPad have downloaded the iBooks app than those for Facebook and Twitter.
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