In the release, CEO Jeff Bezos focused on e-books, noting that the company has more than 130, 000 in-copyright books that are exclusive to the Kindle store.
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's HarperCollins Publishers, started Open Road Integrated Media LLC, which focuses on e-books, including authors who are willing to be published digitally before going into print.
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Once Apple and Amazon have taken their cut, publishers are likely to make less money on e-books under this new arrangement than under the wholesale one a price they seem willing to pay in order to limit Amazon's influence and bolster print sales.
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That could help Amazon.com resume deep discounts on new e-books.
In February, the foundation launched its latest educational endeavor, a brainchild of Adriana's: a series of six e-books on influential Latin American artists (quotes and selected art from e-books at right) aimed at students and art fans alike.
About a third would be at least somewhat likely to take library classes on how to download e-books onto handheld devices (including smartphones), or classes on how to use an e-reader or tablet computer.
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Booksellers were lukewarm on the Google deal, says Serbinis, because selling e-books on their websites did less than nothing for them.
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Of course, Gates used the keynote to announce plans of a new technological breakthrough - a font enhancement called ClearType that makes text on an LCD look like text on paper to improve e-books.
Earlier this year Moses decided to focus on e-commerce, selling books and tapes about recovery from the company's Web site.
On the future of e-books, Mr Coates said that the price of e-books will come down and a lot more people will use them but it is still "a tiny fraction" of book market as a whole.
He has written extensively about his success on Amazon with his e-books ( having sold more than 100, 000 e-books), and has clearly demonstrated with his pricing strategy that e-books can and should be priced lower than print books.
The e-reader sales shortfall is significant because of its ripple effect on projected sales of related products, including e-books and accessories.
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The development of e-readers and e-books created more pressure on the large stores.
Lulu books are available on e-readers like the Kindle, and they will be available on the iPad. iPad books will be in color and have interactive features like videos and links to related Web sites.
The complaint states that the companies accomplished their conspiracy by agreeing to stop the longstanding practice of selling e-books, as they long sold print books, on wholesale to bookstores, and leaving it to the bookstores to set the price at which they would sell the e-books to consumers.
Customers are then able to view and read the e-books on certain electronic devices.
Whatever happens to Apple's bookstore, customers should still be able to read e-books on the company's devices.
E-books on the iPad may help give the world of self-publishing a boost, authors and consultants say.
After swearing that I preferred paper books, I now read e-books on my Kindle and on my iPad.
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The offshoot, Mischief, will launch with 13 original e-books on 27 March, with plans to publish four every month.
He also said that the company plans to try putting e-books on the DS again, a concept it experimented with earlier on.
In the study, more than half the students reported feeling frustrated when highlighting text and taking notes within e-books on the iPad.
Amazon on Tuesday began removing 13 e-books covered by the Wylie pact.
In addition to a Google Web Reader application, users will be able to read Google e-books on apps for Android, iPhone and iPad devices.
Apple now offers about sixty thousand e-books, far fewer than Kindle does, and Amazon has launched an app that allows it to sell e-books on the iPad.
Ms. Rowling kept the digital book rights to her Harry Potter novels and is expected to begin selling Harry Potter e-books on her website Pottermore later this year.
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With so much in the air regarding e-book sales (such as author royalties, size of market, rate of growth, etc) publishers are still running scared of e-books on the whole.
Senator Claire McCaskill is calling the FAA out on its authorization of pilots to use iPads in the cockpit and flight attendants to use devices of their own, while restricting passengers from reading books on e-readers -- "A flying copy of 'War and Peace' is more dangerous than a Kindle, " she told the Times.
Amazon.com is an on-line retailer selling hardcopy and softcopy content (e-books, movies, CDs, etc.), and all kinds of merchandise.
Instead of purchasing e-books through a single online store to read only on compatible software (i.e. books bought from the Kindle Store can only be read on Kindle apps), Google lets consumers buy books either from its store or any other online vendor that sells books in EPUB and PDF formats, and read them on any device with a web browser.
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