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Tag: eBooks

Apple faces $5 billion class action lawsuit regarding eBook availability

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 10:40 am4 Comments

A lawsuit claims Apple breached false advertising and consumer protection laws by deliberately deceiving eBooks customers…

Apple discontinues iBooks Author; encourages transition to Pages

Wednesday, June 10, 2020 2:32 pmWednesday, June 10, 20207 Comments

Today, Apple emailed iBooks Author users to inform them that the ‘iBooks Author’ Mac app is being discontinued on July 1st. iBooks Author was released…

Oprah’s Book Club starts a new chapter with Apple

Monday, September 23, 2019 9:30 amMonday, September 23, 20191 Comment

Apple and Oprah Winfrey today announced Oprah’s Book Club will connect readers worldwide to selected authors…

Apple CEO Cook supported Apple’s lawyers after ‘very ugly’ iBooks lawsuit

Monday, June 10, 2019 10:32 amMonday, June 10, 20194 Comments

In a wide-ranging interview, former Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell has told law students how the iBooks antitrust case went wrong…

How to create ebooks with Pages on Mac

Friday, April 20, 2018 11:27 amFriday, April 20, 201817 Comments

Creating an excellent ebook on your Mac…

Better than the printed page: Reading on an iPad

Friday, March 16, 2018 12:00 pmFriday, March 16, 201823 Comments

Apple’s Web site makes the iPad sound like a gift of God for graphics, but the company hardly mentions…

Apple to challenge Amazon with all-new ‘Books’ app

Thursday, January 25, 2018 9:00 amThursday, January 25, 201829 Comments

Apple Inc. is ready to take on Amazon.com Inc. in the digital book market again…

U.S. District Judge issues ruling: No, you cannot resell your iTunes Store songs

Monday, April 1, 2013 4:29 pmMonday, April 1, 201330 Comments

In a major lawsuit testing the legitimacy of music downloads…

How to use Siri Dictation and a Scroll trick to turn iBooks into audiobooks

Monday, March 18, 2013 12:31 pmMonday, March 18, 201310 Comments

Few people know that it’s possible to use Siri Dictation to…

Chinese court hits Apple with $165,000 fine in iBookstore copyright dispute

Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:10 pm11 Comments

A Beijing court ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan…

Barnes & Noble, Microsoft team up on Nook reader

Monday, April 30, 2012 10:33 amMonday, April 30, 201219 Comments

An infusion of money from Microsoft sent Barnes & Noble’s stock zooming Monday…

U.S. DOJ bites Apple: The 30% revenue-share model is Apple’s standard practice, not a conspiracy

Monday, April 23, 2012 11:00 amMonday, April 23, 201260 Comments

A more humble, more technology-savvy Justice Department would have exercised restraint…

Apple, publishers face class action lawsuit alleging eBook price-fixing in Canada

Friday, April 20, 2012 5:01 pmFriday, April 20, 201212 Comments

All Canadians who have bought electronic books in the past two years…

Apple desires federal trial vs. U.S. DOJ over eBook price-fixing

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:02 pmWednesday, April 18, 201215 Comments

Apple Inc wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government…

Apple vs. Amazon: Who’s really fixing eBook prices?

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:22 pm28 Comments

We can thank Apple for putting the kibosh on Amazon’s evil monopolistic scheming…

Apple not likely to be a loser in legal fight over eBooks

Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:01 pmThursday, April 12, 201216 Comments

If Apple loses the legal case filed against it and book publishers…

Australian gov’t considers suing Apple, five major publishers over eBook pricing

Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:04 pm17 Comments

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has urged local retailers…

DOJ’s panties in a bunch over Apple and eBooks, but what about Amazon?

Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:02 pmThursday, April 12, 201245 Comments

Amazon’s price-lowering attempts constitute another form of abuse of market power…

Antitrust experts: Apple likely to beat U.S. DOJ, win its eBook lawsuit

Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:14 amThursday, April 12, 201229 Comments

The U.S. Justice Department’s legal pursuit of Apple for alleged e-book price fixing…

Steve Berman, lead counsel in Apple eBook antitrust class-action, issues statement on U.S. DOJ action

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 9:17 pmThursday, April 12, 201253 Comments

We are pleased that the U.S. Justice Department and Attorney General Holder…

What’s wrong with the U.S. DOJ?

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 2:31 pmWednesday, April 11, 201268 Comments

What should be the price of the paperless word, now that books are going digital…

Macmillan CEO blasts U.S. DOJ; gov’t on verge of killing real competition for appearance of competition

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 2:01 pmWednesday, April 11, 201235 Comments

MacMillan CEO John Sargent has posted the following open letter…

U.S. DOJ hits Apple, major publishers with antitrust lawsuit, alleges collusion on eBook prices

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:40 pmWednesday, April 11, 201233 Comments

The U.S. hit Apple Inc. and five of the nation’s largest publishers…

Why the fuss about iBooks Author? Apple’s intent has never been to improve the book publishing industry

Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:46 pmThursday, January 26, 201214 Comments

Apple’s recent announcement and release of its iBooks Author tool was met with plenty of controversy…

Class-action lawsuit alleges Apple, publishers engaged in ‘price-fixing conspiracy’ to punish Amazon

Saturday, January 21, 2012 3:15 pmSaturday, January 21, 201223 Comments

Lawyers have amended a class-action lawsuit against Apple and five of the six big publishers…

On the proprietary nature of the iBooks Author file format

Saturday, January 21, 2012 11:56 am22 Comments

iBooks still offers full support for the open standard ePub format…

Tim Bajarin: Apple just re-invented books

Friday, January 20, 2012 8:45 am35 Comments

iBook Author lays the groundwork for non-education publishers…

Apple’s ‘Bliss’ iTextbook project inspired by Al Gore’s ‘Our Choice’ eBook

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:30 pmWednesday, January 18, 2012122 Comments

Apple on Thursday will unveil a new digital textbook project internally code-named…

Apple’s textbook push spotlights iWork executive

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:16 pm23 Comments

As Apple Inc. prepares to unveil a new digital-textbook service on Thursday…

Apple to announce ‘GarageBand for eBooks’ to ‘digitally destroy’ textbook publishing

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:34 am19 Comments

Apple will announce tools to help create interactive eBooks, the GarageBand for eBooks…

Apple’s war on Amazon begins this Thursday

Saturday, January 14, 2012 2:42 pm39 Comments

Apple is about to take Amazon to school…

Apple’s special media event to focus on iBooks

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 8:37 amTuesday, January 3, 201215 Comments

Apple will be holding a product event later this month in New York…

iPad magazine readers to publishers: More, please

Monday, November 21, 2011 11:01 amMonday, November 21, 20118 Comments

Two-thirds of respondents think they’ll be spending more time with digital issues…

Steve Jobs’ biography: The first great digital book event

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:45 amTuesday, October 25, 201111 Comments

Midnight release parties have become common for blockbuster movies, video games…

Chinese authors petition Apple to stop electronic distribution of their books

Thursday, July 7, 2011 2:01 pmThursday, July 7, 201114 Comments

A group of Chinese authors will petition Apple Inc. to stop…

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