European Union regulators handed Amazon a victory after accepting Apple’s and four other publisher's settlement offers to ease pricing restriction, thus marking the end of the antitrust probe into eBook prices, Reuters reports. (more…)
Apple has just announced the iBooks 3.0 for all iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices with brand new features such as infinite scrolling, improved iCloud integration, Facebook / Twitter sharing and support for Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages among others. The update is free to download from the App Store. During today's keynote, Apple CEO Tim...
Will Apple soon be activating iBooks on the Apple TV upon iOS 6's release? That is a question I am asking myself now after reading AppleInsider's latest findings. They found that if you download an e-book from the iBookstore, an Apple TV running iOS 6 tied to the same iTunes account will display a reveling display message. The...
Apple has recently been hit with a major lawsuit across U.S and Canada for allegedly colluding with book publishers in order to raise prices for e-books. Even though Apple has already responded by stating that none of these allegations are true, some very interesting details regarding the case have just been brought forward by Paid Content's reporter Laura Hazard, the most important of...
Apple is being accused of colluding with book publishers in order to raise prices for digital books, as a result of which the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company last week. Yesterday, another class-action lawsuit was filed in Canada regarding the same issue and today, Apple has issued a statement through its lawyer that the company wants to go...
With the release of the iPad and the iBooks app, reading in iOS became a whole new experience. Folks with an iOS device could read ebooks in a whole new way. Some find the bright screen hard on the eyes, but for the most part reading on the iPad is a great experience. There has...
The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and publishers Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, notes Bloomberg: Apple and Macmillan, which have refused to engage in settlement talks with the Justice Department, deny they colluded to raise prices for digital books, according to people familiar with the matter....
The Harry Potter series is finally available on digital format. No longer will you or your kids have to break your back carrying the books around. However, and maybe not surprisingly, you can't get the eBooks through Apple's iBooks. Others such as Amazon have struck deals with J.K. Rowling to have the books on their...
Cheer up comic fans! Marvel has released their classic graphic novels on Apple's iBookstore which can be downloaded right now on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. Prices currently start from free to $24.99 with “New Avengers Vol. 1: Breakout” available as a free download for a limited time. The publisher says it has “entered a bold new...
As pointed out by MacRumors (via The Digital Reader), Apple's apparent ironclad Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection used in iBooks has finally been cracked. The source claims that the latest version of Requiem, an app that removes Fairplay DRM from music and videos sold via iTunes, will now also remove the DRM from iBooks ebooks. Even though Requiem...
Publishers that use Apple's iBookstore received a letter from iTunes Connect saying that they have rolled out some updates and changes. The most welcome improvement for publishers is most likely the ability to issue up to 50 promo codes to book reviewers, much like App Store developers can for their apps. Amongst the other changes...
A new tweak called Booksstand has just gone live in Cydia which allows users to put their iBooks inside the Newsstand folder on iOS 5 devices. The tweak actually lets you add shortcuts for your favorite books and PDFs in the Newsstand folder and access them directly in the iBooks app. Once the tweak is downloaded and installed...
