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Booktrack is a company which has produced a platform enabling sound to be added to an ebook. Some do not see the point of this, calling it gimmicky, but CEO Paul Cameron strongly disagrees with such assessments. He believes there is great potential to having sound playing while reading. Booktrack has already released one version of adding music to an ebook and has been working on another version that is about to be released. [Read more…]

Apple, the world tech super-company, is facing a whirlwind of backlash and bad news. On Friday, March 28, a group of New York consumers sued the tech giant for violating antitrust laws by fixing ebook prices. Five major book publishers are accused of being in cahoots with Apple’s price fixing conspiracy. A U.S. district judge noted that the plaintiffs had met the standards to file the lawsuit. [Read more…]

The topic of ebooks has been a hot-button issue for libraries for as long as electronic formats have been available. The transition to ebooks and the digital world certainly presents challenges that libraries must face. Many worry that ebooks will be the end of public libraries as we know them. [Read more…]

Amazon has done it.  They have crossed the half million mark in their ebook lending library.  Today there are currently 500,896 different ebooks in the list of ebooks in the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. [Read more…]

The recent Department of Justice ruling against Apple in the ebook price fixing case has left executives at top publishing houses outraged, resulting in them filing objections to the ruling and its punishments. HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and Hachette all filed objections the week of August 8, citing that the punishments are as detrimental to the publishing companies themselves as they are to the Apple corporation. [Read more…]