Over in the UK and Ireland it’s World Book Day today, and several survey companies have released recent polling dat about how people read. Mintel released a report today that showed even though 18% read ebooks, nearly half of the UK (49%) still prefers paper books over digital. The problem with that number, though, is [...]
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Asda now selling cheapest e-reader in the UK – £52
February 7th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Now if only it could have been a good one, too. The UK discount chain Asda have just started selling a £52 e-reader. The View Quest Mediabox is based 5″ LCD screen and lacks Wifi or a touchscreen. But it does have 2GB Flash, a SD card slot, a speaker, as well as an impressive [...]
Agency ebook pricing now under investigation in the UK
February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
The UK Office of Fair Trading announced yesterday that they were going to look into whether publishers broke the law in adopting agency pricing for ebooks. From the announcement: Following a significant number of complaints, the OFT has opened an investigation into whether arrangements that certain publishers have put in place with some retailers for [...]
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UK Parliment push to lower tax on ebooks
January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
There’s a growing movement in the UK House of Parliment to lower the tax on ebooks since VAT (Value Added Tax) was raised last month (from 17.5% to 20%). So far 42 MPs have signed on with Glasgow Labour MP Tom Harris to reduce the VAT on ebooks to that of paper books. The UK [...]
HarperCollins UK went POD & book quality dropped
December 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · publishing news
One of the blogs I follow is by Phil Gyford, the man behind Pepys’ Diary. Every year for the pat 9 years he’s bought a volume of Pepys’ Diaries. Every year the new volume has had the same price, publisher (HarperCollins UK), and retailer (Amazon). Only this year he received a poorer quality book than [...]
View Quest now selling 5″ and 8″ Android tablets in the UK
November 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The UK based consumer electronics company View Quest have just started selling a pair of Android tablets. The Slate5 (800×480 screen resolution) and Slate8 (800×600 screen resolution) are based on the same 600MHz RockChip CPU, and they have Wifi, a resistive touchscreen, 2GB Flash, a microSD card slot, speakers, and they both run Android v1.5. [...]
Google Books now in talks with UK publishers
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
You may have read the post in The Bookseller yesterday about how Google Books signed a deal with Hachette Livre to digitize their out of print backlist: Hachette Livre has come to an agreement with Google that will see the giant search engine digitise the publisher’s out of print books in France, bringing to an [...]
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Amazon UK Switches to Agency Plan with 3 Publishers
November 1st, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
by Andrys Basten As mentioned here on Oct. 15, Amazon told its UK customers about its battles to avoid the ‘Agency Plan’ created by Apple with the larger publishers and that the latter would ‘require’ online booksellers to accept the plan to fix prices to be the same at all online stores (notably higher in [...]
Samsung E65 now available in the UK
October 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Where did I put my passport… Samsung’s 6″ Kindle clone has just been released in the UK. It’s currently being sold by PC Wrold and Curry’s for £199.99. The E65 is based on a 6″ E-ink screen, and it has Wifi, 2GB Flash, keyboard, a Wacom touchscreen, and it’s tied into the WH Smiths ebookstore. [...]
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