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Judge agrees that Apple was complicit in fixing price of e-books

Judge agrees that Apple was complicit in fixing price of e-books

By Jay McGregor published

Apple faces court over an accusation of colluding with publishers to artificially inflate the price of e-books in its iBookstore.

Tech
Amazon is waiting until colour E Ink is at a level that it is happy with to release a full-colour Kindle reader

Colour E Ink display arrives

By Adam Hartley published

China is the first country to launch a full-colour ebook reader this month.

eReaders
Neal Stephenson's latest digital novel project The Mongoloid launches this month

Neal Stephenson develops new e-publishing model

By Adam Hartley published

Sci-Fi writer Neal Stephenson has set up a new e-publishing venture to develop a new platform for creating and publishing digital novels.

Computing
Sony set to announce its new range of next-gen e-book Readers at IFA this week

Sony set to reveal next-gen Reader ebooks

By Adam Hartley published

IFA 2010 Slimmer devices with touchscreen control

IFA 2010
Amazon and Apple taken to task over e-book pricing deals

Apple and Amazon slammed for ebook pricing

By Adam Hartley published

Apple and Amazon are being taken to task by Connecticut's Attorney General over what he refers to as 'anti-competitive' ebook pricing deals with publishers.

eReaders
Sharp's new prototype e-readers look suspiciously like another recently launched tablet PC device...

Sharp's new e-reader apes the Apple iPad

By Adam Hartley published

Sharp has demonstrated its new range of e-reader devices in Japan this week, with a clear design nod to the Apple iPad.

iPad
Sharp enters the e-reader fray later in 2010

Sharp enters booming e-reader market

By Adam Hartley published

Takes on the combined might of Amazon, Sony and Apple

Computing
New study compares reading speeds on iPads, Kindles, PCs and traditional printed books - unfortunately, e-comics were not included in the study...

Reading speeds on iPad, Kindle and printed books compared

By Adam Hartley published

A new study compares the average reading speeds from reading long-form texts on four different reading devices – the traditional printed book, the PC, the Apple iPad and the Amazon Kindle.

eReaders
Sony claims e-book sales will overtake print within five years, Bookseller magazine disagrees with claim

Will ebook sales overtake print within five years?

By Adam Hartley published

Exclusive Sony has claimed that ebook sales will overtake print sales within five years, although publishing industry reps are already questioning the e-book manufacturer's bullish predictions.

Exclusive
Asus adds note-taking capabilities to the e-book, with its new Eee Tablet

Asus Eee Tablet reinvents e-books

By Adam Hartley, Dave James published

Asus has launched another tablet computer at Computex 2010, in addition to the much-hyped Asus Eee Pad, with the new Eee Tablet from the Taiwanese computing firm promising to reinvent the e-book.

Tablets
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