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Digital publisher Ellora’s Cave sues Dear Author blog for reporting on its...

Dear Author, a leading romance blog, reported on digital publisher Ellora's Cave's tax violations and missing author payments. Now Ellora's Cave is suing Dear Author and its founder for defamation.

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Amazon’s crowdsourced publishing platform will launch soon for mystery,...

Amazon's crowdsourced publishing initiative is for romance, mystery/thriller and sci-fi/fantasy authors, and will open to the public in a couple of weeks. Separately, Amazon is launching a community...

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Finally, a Big 5 publisher raises digital royalties (but there’s a catch)

HarperCollins is paying authors more when they sell their print, e- and audiobooks directly through its website. It's a step in the right direction, even if it's not the standard higher…

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Adobe’s latest ebook software is collecting unencrypted data on users’...

If you use the latest edition of Adobe's ebook software, you may be sending the company a lot more information about your reading habits than you wanted to.

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Amazon to open holiday pop-up store in terrible, tourist-filled Manhattan...

Amazon is reportedly opening a pop-up store in Manhattan this holiday season.

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It was great having you, magazines. Let’s just say goodbye now

When print magazines are gone, how much will we miss them?

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The e-reader lives a lonely life, and the nice Kindle Voyage won’t change that

The Kindle Voyage is an extremely nice e-reader that probably won't change your feelings about e-readers, no matter what those feelings may be.

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Three lessons for building your company and planning your exit when your seed...

Contributors are customers -- and other lessons for startups that got their initial funding from the crowd.

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Amazon’s gigantic operating loss sends shares sliding 10% after hours

Amazon saw big losses again in its Q3 2014 earnings, missing analyst estimates and reporting a whopping operating loss of $544 million.

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Google Play Books’ new reading mode lets you browse and skim nonfiction...

It's not particularly convenient to read cookbooks, travel guides and other reference works as ebooks. Google is hoping to change that.

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Scribd adds 30,000 audiobooks to its $8.99/month ebook subscription

Scribd is adding about 30,000 digital audiobooks to its $8.99/month ebook subscription service, helping its offering to stand out from competitors Oyster and Kindle Unlimited.

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Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook...

Amazon and book publisher Hachette have finally reached a deal in the contentious and public negotiations that have been going on since May, the companies announced Thursday.

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In Amazon/Hachette deal, ebook agency pricing is a winner

In the deal that Amazon and Hachette Book Group finally reached Thursday after months of bitter negotiations, we don't really know which side "won," if one side did. But one survivor…

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Beyond screens: Music in your mouth, smelling the time

"We see with our brains, not with our eyes," artist and technologist Aisen Caro Chacin said at Gigaom's Roadmap conference Tuesday, paraphrasing neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita.

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Washington Post launches news app just for Amazon Fire owners

The Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as of last August, rolled out a new "immersive news-reading" app Thursday -- and it is only available to Amazon…

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Amazon is going to start making movies for theaters and Prime

Coming to a theater near you: Amazon plans to start producing "close to twelve" movies a year. The films will "premiere on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. just 4 to 8…

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Amazon pulls its diaper brand after 6 weeks, citing design flaws

Amazon has yanked the "Amazon Elements" diaper brand it launched for Prime members just six weeks ago, saying that it is working to improve the diapers' design "based on early customer…

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Amazon launches Kindle textbook tool to compete with iBooks Author

We often think of digital textbooks as being read on iPads, and Apple rolled out iBooks Author, which lets users create textbooks and other interactive ebooks, in 2012. But Amazon, not…

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This Saturday you can watch all of Transparent free on Amazon

Not having access to award-winning TV is certainly nothing new for cord-cutters, but now the debate's being flipped: When Amazon's original series Transparent won the Golden Globe awards for best...

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All the Harry Potter ebooks are now on subscription site Oyster

The seven Harry Potter books, plus three spin-off titles, are now available through the ebook subscription site Oyster. The company says Harry Potter has been in its top-ten searches since launch. The…

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