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HarperCollins eBook windowing
HarperCollins is the latest publisher to say that it will delay the eBook verions of some of its new titles. From next year the News Corp-owned publisher will delay the online release of five to 10 new books each month for between four weeks and six months. This will give it a chance to sell … Continue reading
Google books deal nears
Google has made concessions to publishers by scaling back some of its plans to digitise millions of out-of-print works from US libraries. Google is nearing a book deal in the US with publishers and writers. The number of books it will digitise has come down by 60%, following the exclusion of most foreign language books, … Continue reading
Kindle International
Amazon’s much anticipated international version of the Kindle has finally been launched. Initially sold through Amazon.com, it is priced at $279 and will ship from 19th October. The international version is the smaller six inch screen Kindle 2, as opposed to the larger Kindle DX only available in the US, and will run on 3G … Continue reading
