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iBook Lessons: Publishing costs

by Erica Sadun (Jun 13th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. Andrew Hyde jumped into the ebook business with both feet. After fully funding a KickStarter project to raise start-up costs for his "This Book is about Travel," he published his manuscript to a variety of vendors. His ...

Inkling for Web puts iPad books in a browser

by Steven Sande (May 30th, 2012)

We've discussed Inkling's interactive digital textbooks numerous times here on TUAW, both in terms of the products the publisher has released and in comparison with Apple's own iBooks Author-created textbooks. Now the company has announced a way to read its books in Webkit-based web ...

Apple says Department of Justice "sides with monopoly"

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 25th, 2012)

In Apple's eye, the U.S. government has cast its lot with monopolies. Apple's legal response to the Department of Justice lawsuit, which the company filed May 22, claims that the case against Apple and other publishers over ebook pricing is "is fundamentally flawed as a matter of fact and ...

iBook Lessons: The long and short of ebook submission review times

by Erica Sadun (May 21st, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. Last Autumn, after Apple launched the iPhone 4S, Steve Sande and I wrote Talking to Siri. It took several weeks to move through Apple review. Throughout all that time, people kept asking us, "Aren't you going to offer an ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Where should I buy my George R. R. Martin fix?

by Erica Sadun (May 15th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I want to buy "A Dance with Dragons" as an eBook and I am hesitating between buying it for Kindle or iBooks, the reason being the Kindle version will be available on my Mac, my iPhone and my iPad. Is it possible to do the same if I buy it for iBooks or will I be "stuck" with ...

Amazon introduces Send to Kindle for Mac

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 24th, 2012)

Amazon has released its Send to Kindle for the Mac, which allows users to drag-and-drop personal documents to an app that automatically sends them to their Kindle. It also adds the ability to use the print menu from any Mac application that has one to send a document to the Kindle. Users ...

Ex-WSJ publisher: Apple's 30% profit sharing ebook agency model is not a conspiracy

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 23rd, 2012)

As Apple prepares to go to trial to fight the US Department of Justice's claims that the Cupertino company conspired to fix ebook prices with publishers, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz has an interesting oped in today's paper which he says that Apple's 30% profit ...

Apple officially responds to DOJ's antitrust case

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 13th, 2012)

Apple has officially responded to the antitrust claim brought against the company by the US Department of Justice. In the claim the DOJ says that Apple worked with five major publishers to illegally fix eBook pricing. In response to the lawsuit Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told AllThingsD: The ...

Reuters: Justice Department ready to sue Apple over ebook price fixing (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 11th, 2012)

A report from Reuters suggests the Department of Justice could file a lawsuit against Apple today over alleged ebook price fixing. Publishers involved in the price-fixing scheme are supposedly settling with the government, while Apple has stayed out of the negotiations. As a result, Apple could ...

Daily Update for April 5, 2012

by Steven Sande (Apr 5th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple reportedly stays out of ebook settlement talks

by Mel Martin (Apr 5th, 2012)

Apple doesn't appear to be rushing to settle antitrust claims in the price-fixing investigation into ebooks. The Wall Street Journal and others are reporting today that Apple and two other publishers are reluctant to settle, according to people knowledgeable about the investigation. There ...

McGraw Hill VP bullish on $399 iPad 2 for students

by Steven Sande (Mar 13th, 2012)

At Apple's education keynote in January, McGraw Hill Education was announced as one of the partners in the initiative to move textbooks to a digital format. The company's vice president of new ventures, Vineet Madan, is impressed with the power and display of the new iPad, but says he thinks that ...

Scholastic releases iPad e-reader app for kids

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 9th, 2012)

According to PaidContent, Scholastic brought its catalog of children's books to the iPad. The recently updated Storia app taps into Scholastic's ebook store which boasts of over 1,000 children's titles. The titles in the bookstore are organized by grade level, reading level, age and ...

Department of Justice reportedly planning antitrust suit against Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 8th, 2012)

According to a Wall Street Journal Report, the Department of Justice is threatening to sue Apple and five book publishers for artificially inflating the price of ebooks. The five book publishers include Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Pearson PLC's Penguin Group, Macmillan and ...

Inkling launches Inkling Habitat for textbook publishing

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2012)

iBooks Author was announced last month to a lot of hoopla, but left many ebook publishers wanting a textbook authoring tool that would streamline the entire book publishing process and have more features. Today, Inkling announced their new online ebook publishing tool -- Inkling Habitat -- that is ...