Feb 8, 2010 Posted by Helena@ggt

Is Anyone Going to Profit from Macmillan’s Victory?

A little more than a week ago Amazon removed all of Macmillan’s books from their virtual bookshelves in order to put pressure on said publishing group. The move was Amazon’s reaction to a dispute with Macmillan over the current eBook pricing scheme, which caps the price for any eBook at $9.99. Macmillan asked for more flexibility in order to be able to raise the price for eBooks up to $14.99... read more

Jan 31, 2010 Posted by Helena@ggt

EBook Wars Round 1 – Sit Back and Enjoy the Fight!

The news of  Macmillan’s dispute with Amazon seem to spread quite quickly. So here is what happened: The Macmillan Publishing Group is one of the largest international publishing companies and is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Just like any traditional publisher, they work together with Amazon in a (book) supply chain that looks like this: author -> publisher ->... read more

Jan 21, 2010 Posted by Helena@ggt

Why apps on Amazon Kindle won’t work

Yesterday’s announcement about Amazon opening up their Kindle to developers (with a real developer’s kit) in order for apps to start showing up on the device soon, really surprised me. To be honest, I didn’t think that Amazon would fall for Apples promotion strategy. So, let’s go through it step by step, shall we? What does Apple actually do before they release a major new... read more