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Sales

• Yes, people still read: e-book sales by UK publishers grew 54 percent in 2011 5/2/2012
• E-books are the fastest-growing area of book sales, especially for youngsters 3/29/2012
• Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles 3/12/12
• Tablet and E-Reader Sales Soar 1/22/2012
• Uncovering Amazon Publishing 11/4/2011
• E-books vs. Print Books (eReader, E-book sales trends); 11/3/2011
• The Truth About Amazon Publishing (guessing at sales figures); 11/2/2011
• Nielsen starts including e-books in bestseller book charts 10/28/2011
• Amazon Tops 1 Million Kindle Books In Just Four Years (more now if copyright-free texts included; only 90,000 4 yrs ago); 9/28/2011
• Barnes & Noble's Nook revenue up 140 percent 8/30/2011
• New Stats: Book Publishing Is Growing; E-Book Revs and Sales Up Over 1000% 8/9/2011
• E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon 7/20/2010
• Barnes & Noble offers 30 free e-books to switch to Nook -- that's one expensive carrot 7/1/2011
• Is your city well-read? Amazon knows the answer (20 top book-buying cities); 5/27/2011
• E-book sales triple, top paper as most popular format in US 4/15/2011
• E-Book Boom Changes Book Selling And Publishing 12/21/2010
• In E-Publishing Revolution, Rights Battle Wears On 7/27/2010
• Can The iPad Or The Kindle Save Book Publishers? 4/27/2010

Pricing: General

• Nobody Cares About The Fixed Costs Of Your Book, Movie, Whatever 5/4/2012
• Paulo Coehlo Convinces His Publisher To Offer (Almost) All Of His Ebooks For $0.99 5/2/2012
• Friday Night Lights author caught by Amazon e-book rules Bissinger hurt by Apple, Amazon 'no-lower-price' war; 4/30/2012
• If Publishers Can't Cover Their Costs With $10 Ebooks, Then They Deserve To Go Out Of Business 4/17/2012
• Amazon’s E-Book Pricing a Constant Thorn for Publishers predatory pricing, esp. for small publishers; 4/15/2012
• So how much is a fair price to pay for an e-book? (many believe <$10); 2/24/2012
• (Brazilian) Vending Machine Sells (paper) Books For Whatever Price You Want 2/21/2012
• Buy a paper book from ChiZine Publications, get a free ebook! 1/11/2012
• Ebooks must stay fat with VAT, blame the EU, MPs told 12/13/2011
• European E-Book Sales Hampered by Tax Structure (VAT much lower on printed books) 12/2/2011
• Ray Bradbury Discovers The Internet Is Real After All; Publishers Force Him To Offer Ridiculously Overpriced Ebooks (Fahrenheit 451 was about importance of physical books); 11/29/2011
• Publishing Still Doesn’t Get It (quality; subscriptions); 11/19/2011
• The newsonomics of Amazon’s Prime moves (quasi-subscriptions); 11/17/2011
• E-Publishing The Chinese Way: Very Fast And Very Cheap (serials); 11/8/2011
• What happens to ownership as the world goes digital? 11/4/2011
• Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books (Kindle Lending Library); 11/3/2011
• What happens to books when the Kindle is free? 10/5/2011
• Are $0.99 Kindle E-books a good idea? 6/23/2011
• 99 Cent Books (all, in 5 years?) 3/7/2011
• A Word Of Caution About Those E-Book Versus Hardback Book Statistics (pricing); 7/20/2010
• No Ink, No Paper: What's The Value Of An E-Book? 3/12/2010
• Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others (Orwellian: Amazon removing purchased E-books); 7/17/2009
• Text to Speech and E-books

Price Fixing, Monopoly

• How Apple's Agency Model for Publishers Fails to Merit Collusion Charges 4/23/2012
• Ebook price-fixing: Apple, publishers face class action in Montreal 4/20
• Apple wants trial on e-book price-fixing 4/18/2012
• Apple vs. Amazon: Who's the real price-fixer? 4/17/2012
• Book Publishing’s Real Nemesis Amazon's low prices disguise a high cost; 4/16/2012
• What's the future of e-book pricing? after DOJ (Dept. of Justice) suit; 4/13/2012
• Antitrust and ebooks: regulators miss the big DRM lock-in picture (platform restrictions; in-app purchases); 4/12/2012
• Barnes & Noble Hit Hard stock down on fear of aggressive discounting of best-selling e-books by Amazon; 4/13/2012
• Apple Not Likely to Be a Loser in the E-Book Legal Fight small financial impact; 4/12/2012
• Apple rebuffs DOJ e-book suit, says Amazon was monopoly however, DOJ conspiracy case does not have to show adverse effects on consumers; 4/12/2012
• DOJ is likely to lose e-book antitrust suit targeting Apple Antitrust experts say feds have "far better case" for price fixing against publishers, three of which have settled, than they do against Apple.; 4/12/2012
• Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shake Rivals ($14.99 => $9.99? increase monopoly); 4/11/2012
• Inside the DOJ's ebook price-fixing case against Apple: an analysis 4/11/2012
• U.S. Alleges E-Book Scheme Lawsuit Says Apple, Publishers Colluded to Raise Prices; Three Will Settle (HarperCollins; Hachette; Simon & Schuster; leaving Macmillan, Penguin and Apple); The case centers around a deal to switch to agency pricing, where the vendor takes a 30 percent cut of each sale rather than the wholesale model (used by Amazon) which allows stores to sell books at rock-bottom prices; 4/11/2012
• The e-book wars: Who is less evil, Amazon or book publishers? 4/11/2012
• Consumer group: E-book price fixing costs big bucks ($200 million in 2012); 4/9/2012
• An Amazon.com power grab? (it wants deeper discounts from small presses); 4/8/2012
• Apple Antitrust Suit Would Aid Amazon Book Monopoly (Turow, Pres. of Authors' Guild); 3/21/2012
• EU open to settlement with e-book publishers 3/12/2012
• Ebooks: Defending the Agency Model (comparison to Wholesale Model); 3/11/2012
• Author's Guild Boss On E-Book Price Fixing Allegations 3/10/2012
• Apple Downplays Role Of ‘Kindle Threat’ In Alleged e-Book Conspiracy 3/8/2012

Censorship, Inequality

• PayPal reverses its ban on 'obscene' e-books (PayPal will limit its policy to e-books containing potentially illegal pornographic images and text-only books with child-porn themes); 3/13/2012
• PayPal sparks furor over limits on "obscene" e-books (EFF); (containing bestiality, rape, incest, and underage erotica); 3/7/2012
• Do E-Books Threaten Democracy? (Franzen; impermanence; Orwellian control); 2/6/2012
• Jonathan Franzen: E-readers are 'damaging to society' 1/30/2012
• Banned Books Week: Mapping Censorship

Copyright, DRM (Digital Rights Management), Piracy

• Tor to Drop DRM From E-Books one of the largest sci-fi and fantasy publishers; 4/25/2012
• Another Reason Why DRM Is Bad -- For Publishers barrier to entry in the online bookstore market; lock readers into a platform, e.g., Amazon; 4/16/2012
• Homemade Hardcovers: Yet Again, Anti-Circumvention Interferes With Fair Use (rearranging pages of legally purchased PDF e-books); 4/12/2012
• Why Do Publishers Treat Customers As Crooks With Scolding Copyright Notices? 4/6/2012
• The Biggest 'Pirates' And 'Freeloaders' Of Them All? College Professors And Librarians (1st copyright law: "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning"); 4/4/2012
• Why The 'Missing 20th Century' Of Books Is Even Worse Than It Seems (longer, ambiguous copyright); 4/3/2012
• Chinese Writers’ Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder 24 books published w/o permission; 3/19/2012
• Book Publishers Force Down Piracy Sites 2/15/2012
• How Publishers Repeated The Same Mistake As Record Labels: DRM Obsession Gave Amazon Dominant Position; 2/10/2012
• Google tries to kick Authors Guild out of court in book case 12/2011
• Stross: (Big6) publishers' insistence on DRM "hands Amazon a stick with which to beat them" 11/28/2011
• Hollywood's latest effort to turn back time (SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act; E-PARASITE); 11/1/2011
• The case for piracy 10/20/2011
• E-books are "attacking our freedom" (DRM); The Dangers of E-books 6/8/2011
• Publishers Realizing It's Silly To 'Fight Piracy' 6/7/2011
• Steal This E-Book (O'Reilly) 4/11/2011
• Will E-Book Prices & Restrictions Lead to E-Book Piracy? 3/7/2011
• Will E-Book Anti-Piracy Technology Hurt Readers? 3/25/2009

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