Good news for competition! The new Apple tablet will have their own application called iBook which will compete against Amazon’s Kindle. It is also noted that Apple will use the open ePub format for translating documents into the appropriate coding. This is a nice jab in the side to Amazon who charges people to use their own in-house format.
Here is the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/technology/companies/28apple.html?hp
Good news!!! The monopoly, named, Amazon, is changing the royalty pay rate for authors from 30% to 70%. How humble and grateful are thee…. I can’t believe they had the audacity to take a 70% cut from ebooks. But thanks to competition and new competitors, such as Apple, its forcing Apple to rethink their monopolistic ways…..which means….more for us indie authors!!! I will definitely drink to this….Salut !!!
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/portable/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222301679
Good news for us indie authors !!!! Apple plans to unveil its own e-reader via the “Tablet” which will compete against the other e-readers in the industry. Which is good. Supposedly, Amazon accounts for 80% total e-books sold. They are a f-ing monopoly who use their power to squeeze royalties out of authors. First, by forcing authors to pay to use their exclusive e-book converter tool in order to sell your e-book on Amazon, and then they take a 30% cut of royalties. And not to long ago that cut was 70%. So to have more competition means more freedom/profits for authors. If you don’t believe me. Please, check out my researched articles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/21reader.html?ref=books
Here is another indication that higher education is nothing more than a business. You might not think so but the politicians do… Here is the article from the New York Times:
