Amazon Opens Fire On Apple TV And Chromecast
The last thing Amazon wants is for the living room to become another outpost of the iOS and Android empires. Read More …
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Twitch goes to the movies
We missed this amid the hubbub of CES, but apropos our Wednesday post Twitch has begun experimenting with live movie screenings on its platform through a partnership with Devolver Digital. Each Friday through February 20th Twitch will host a screening of a game-related movie, along with a live chat with the filmmaker on its main channel. Read More …
Publishers throw the e-book business out the window
Book publishers have been crowing this week over having wrested control over e-book prices from Amazon. After a brief showdown with Macmillan Publishing, in which Amazon pulled all Macmillan hardcover and paperback titles from its physical-book store, the Kindle maker blinked and agreed to the publisher’s demand to raise the price of its e-books in Read More …
The coming battle over used e-books (Updated)
On Thursday, Google announced during the Frankfurt Book Fair that its long-planned e-commerce platform for digital books will launch by June 2010. Christened Google Editions, represents a major departure from most current e-book offerings in that it won’t be confined to any particular reading device or desktop viewing application. Instead, Google will cache users’ purchases Read More …
Asking the wrong questions on e-books
The New York Times published a story the other day asking,Will Books be Napsterized? It’s conclusion? Probably, now that e-book readers are going mainstream and file-hosting sites like RapidShare are making it easier than ever for people to post pirated e-books online (speaking on a network filtering panel at the Future of Music Coaltion Policy Read More …