Browsing by topic: Amazon

Amazon.de Guilty of Flouting Fixed Price Laws

By Siobhan O’Leary In the David vs. Goliath-esque battle between Buchhandlung Schopf in northern Germany and Amazon, the little guy has come out on top.   … 

Posted in German Buch News | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

One-star Ratings on Amazon for Book Without Kindle Version

By Hannah Johnson The recently released book, Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (published by Harper), was well-received by newspaper and online book  … 

Posted in What's the Buzz | Also tagged , , | 7 Comments

Bookseller Sues Amazon for Thwarting Fixed Price Laws

By Siobhan O’Leary Buchhandlung Schopf, a small bookstore in the town of Brunsbüttel in northern Germany, was fed up with customers strolling in brandishing printouts  … 

Posted in German Buch News | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

What’s the Buzz: Twitter Considers Subscriptions; Amazon Reveals Kindle Statistics; Waiting to Buy an E-reader

By Hannah Johnson Would you pay to read certain people’s Twitter streams? Next year, you might have to. As reported in Techradar, a new subscription  … 

Posted in What's the Buzz | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

Global Trade Talk: PEN Prioritizes Indigenous Language Preservation; Club Bertelsmann Becomes Zeilenreich; Amazon International Profits Up

By Edward Nawotka and Siobhan O’Leary Last Wednesday, London-based International PEN elected Canadian writer John Ralston Saul as the organization’s new director, replacing Czech writer  … 

Posted in Global Trade Talk | Also tagged , , | 2 Comments

What’s the Buzz: Time to Start Talk of the Amazon Book Settlement

By Siobhan O’Leary and Edward Nawotka It’s finally here! Following months of speculation, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has announced that Amazon will start shipping the Kindle  … 

Posted in What's the Buzz | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

German Buch News: Amazon Tops Ranking of Germany’s Online Stores; Court Rules for More Pay for Translators

By Siobhan O’Leary The German E-Commerce Center Handel (ECC) — a research and consulting firm focused on e-commerce — has released the results of its  … 

Posted in German Buch News | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

What’s the Buzz: Digital Pub Insights; Free Downloads

By Hannah Johnson The best of the blogosphere and social media… Twittered and blogged about from every corner of the internet yesterday, the Kindle version  … 

Posted in News Blog, What's the Buzz | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

Global Trade Talk: Deep Symbol Discounts; Scribd-to-Bestseller Novel

By Hannah Johnson The Bookseller alerted us that The Book Depository dropped its price on The Lost Symbol to £4.99, a reduction of nearly 75%  … 

Posted in Global Trade Talk, News Blog | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

German Buch News: Read a Mystery and Learn German, Amazon.de Breaks Embargo on Raunacht

By Siobhan O’Leary Read a murder mystery and learn some German in the process. That’s the idea behind Cornelsen Verlag’s latest iPhone and iPod Touch  … 

Posted in German Buch News, News Blog | Also tagged , | Leave a comment