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IDPF
<p> OeBF (Open eBook Forum) was created. Now called International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). -
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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.
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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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Article Amazon drops Lightning Source / Ingram. Amazon doesn't sell eBooks again until they launch Kindle in 2007.
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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) -
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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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Bikini Girls with eReaders but their publishing platform is sold to News Corp.
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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. -
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% 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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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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