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Smashwords gets more self-published ebooks into libraries
Digital self-publishing site Smashwords has launched a new service, Library Direct, that lets some libraries acquire large collections of Smashwords ebooks. To start, the three library systems using...
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Sony outs new Reader PRS-T2 with Evernote, Facebook sharing
Sony is striking back at Amazon’s Kindle with an updated Reader device, now available to order for $129. Aside from an improved viewing experience on the 6-inch e-Ink display, the Reader PRS-T2...
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States reach $69 million ebook pricing settlement with publishers
Ebook-buying consumers in 49 states (all except Minnesota) and five territories are set to receive $69 million as the result of a settlement between the states and HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon...
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Ebook price drops begin — and Apple is discounting, too
The Department of Justice’s ebook pricing settlement was approved last Thursday, and HarperCollins, one of the three settling publishers, has already entered into new contracts with ebook retailers –...
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Sony not ceding mobile to casual games
More people than ever are spending less time playing traditional console video games, and far more time using a mobile device. Sony, long the entrenched king of console gaming, is continuing to roll...
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Google Books, movies and Nexus 7 tablet head to Japan
Google is now selling ebooks, movies and its Nexus 7 tablet in Japan. The company added Japanese reading features, such as the ability to read from right to left, to its Google Play Books Android app...
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Sony Entertainment CEO: DVRs and Netflix have made TV better
Like Mad Men or Breaking Bad? Then thank TiVo and Netflix. At least that’s what Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton is doing. Lynton told the audience at All Things Digital’s Dive into Media...
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Sony announces PlayStation 4, touts speed and social but media vision unclear
A lot has changed since Sony last announced an update to its video game console in 2006. Since that time, the era of discs and cartridges has receded and consumers have entered a world of cloud and...
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Sony ends 20p price promotion in its UK Reader Store
Sony is at least temporarily ending the 20p price promotion in the U.K. Reader Store, The Bookseller reported Monday. The 20p promotion, which had been running since July 2012, sold selected ebooks for...
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J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore to launch on PlayStation Home
J. K. Rowling’s virtual Harry Potter community Pottermore is launching on Sony’s PlayStation Home, the company’s free social gaming platform. Users of Pottermore’s website will be able to link their...
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Free is not the magic number: New trends in ebook pricing
Ebook pricing strategies are changing rapidly as the digital market grows. Self-published authors continue to shake things up, but what might have been best practice a couple of years ago is not...
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Ebook price wars start anew in the U.K. When are super-low prices coming to...
It’s been a week of book price wars: FIrst, Overstock promised to sell new hardcovers cheaper than Amazon — and Amazon quickly matched Overstock’s prices. Across the Atlantic, consumers are getting...
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Amazon, Kobo and Sony petition FCC to exempt e-readers from accessibility laws
Amazon, Kobo and Sony are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to permanently exempt e-readers from certain federal accessibility laws for the disabled, arguing that e-readers are...
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Bad sign for e-readers? E Ink sales plunge
Here’s a sign that e-readers are struggling in the U.S.: E Ink Holdings, the Taiwan-based company that makes e-reader screens for companies such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony, just had its...
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J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore gets new CEO: Former Sony exec Susan Jurevics
After losing Charlie Redmayne as CEO in July, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fan site and digital bookstore Pottermore.com has a new boss: Susan Jurevics. Jurevics was formerly an SVP at Sony, where she...
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Why the Damages creators are such a good fit for Netflix
It’s apt that yesterday, the day Damages creators Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler sold their new thriller series to Netflix, the fifth and final season of Damages was made available...
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Sony is reportedly looking to sell Gracenote
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-18/sony-said-to-explore-sale-of-gracenote-audio-recognition-service.html Sony may be looking to sell media recognition specialist Gracenote, according to a...
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Sony announces internet TV service, plans to start testing it later this year
Not discouraged by Intel’s failure to launch its OnCue TV service, Sony just announced at CES that it wants to become a pay TV provider of is own and offer customers in the U.S. a cloud-based TV...
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Sony hopes for music service upswing as it sells 5.3M PS4s
Sony has sold 5.3 million PS4s since it first introduced the game console in November of 2013, and now it’s hoping that all those new PS4 owners won’t just play games with the device. Sony has...
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Here are 3 ways Aereo will tell the Supreme Court that it’s legal
The stakes can’t get any higher for internet TV service Aereo. One week from now, the two-year-old company will go before the Supreme Court to face off against a group of big broadcasters that want to...
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