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A Short History of eBooks
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OeBF (Open eBook Forum) was created.
IDPF
<p> OeBF (Open eBook Forum) was created. Now called International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). -
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March 2000: Stephen King— “Riding the Bullet” Within 2 days, over 400K downloads! Estimated sales: Over 1M digital copies sold.
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Sept 2000: Anderson Consulting [now Accenture] conducted a study for the US. publishing industry and predicted that by 2005 e-books would account for $2.3bn in annual sales or about 10% of print sales.
Sept 2000: Anderson Consulting [now Accenture] conducted a study for the US. publishing industry and predicted that by 2005 e-books would account for $2.3bn in annual sales or about 10% of print sales. -
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June 2003: Gemstar closes eBook store.
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Sept 2003: BN.com closes eBook store.
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Google Print Library Project Launched
Google Books Library
<p> Google announces a joint venture with major libraries to scan books. It is later renamed Google Book Search. -
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Amazon Drops Lightning Source / Ingram for their eBook Distribution
Article Amazon drops Lightning Source / Ingram. Amazon doesn't sell eBooks again until they launch Kindle in 2007. -
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Oct 2006: Sony Launches
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Steve Jobs thoughts on eBooks:
Jan 2007: Steve Jobs thoughts on eBooks:
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” (NYT 1/15/2007) -
Sept 2007: Harlequin announces that all frontlist titles will be released as eBooks (~150 titles per month)
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Sept 2007: IDPF’s ePub launches. Hachette is first to use in Jan ’08.
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Google announces a joint venture with major libraries to scan books. It it later renamed Google Book Search.
Google can show up to 20% of a text online for free and make the entire book available online for a fee. Books in the public domain are available in their entirety for free. -
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Fictionwise was acquired by Barnes & Noble on March 5, 2009, for $15.7 million in cash (plus the potential for earn-outs)
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iPad was announced on January 27, 2010 by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
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Hearst's SKIFF is Scrapped . . .
Bikini Girls with eReaders but their publishing platform is sold to News Corp. -
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BN / Amazon drastically cut prices on nook and Kindle
Duel in Apple's Shadow
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Hours after Barnes & Noble's price cut on Nook and announcement of a new lower-priced wi-fi model yesterday, Amazon announced a price reduction of its own. They lowered the price on the regular model of Kindle from $269 to $189, effective immediately. -
Plastic Logic Que E-Reader Scrapped
Bikini Girls with eReaders
<p> Plastic Logic cancelled all backorders on their long-hyped oversized Que reader. The company is calling it a "delay" and tells Wired it "wants to make sure that the product they deliver is the right one for their target business customers in the rapidly changing marketplace. They are continuing to refine the product, technology and features, and are anxious to get in the marketplace as soon as possible." -
70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text Platform Now Available
70% Digital Option
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Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that the 70 percent royalty option that enables authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell is now available. -
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Super Kindle DX launches
DX launch
<p> The new model is priced at $379 (compared to $479 for the original model), and is said to have "an all new, high contrast electronic ink display with 50 percent better contrast."
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