While the debate about the future of ebooks rages on, with authors and book publishers alike concerned about how a well-worn business model is rapidly changing, a new academic study claims that giving away free electronic versions of your books can boost sales of the printed version.
Consumers in Britain are highly confused about the laws on copyright, particularly those that relate to copying CDs onto a computer.
Consumer Focus said that the UK’s copyright law is outdated that millions of Brits were unaware they were actually breaking laws.
Amazon has sealed as deal with the British Library to make a whopping 65,000 books available to Kindle owners and via CreateSpace’s Print on-Demand service.
Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS is being developed with the burgeoning budget netbook market in mind, although the search giant is also developing a version of the operating system for tablet or slate PCs.
Google has shared a little more information on how a new tablet operating system might work on the Google’s Chromium projects site.
Major book publisher Macmillan has demanded that its books are sold for more than Amazon’s $9.99 special offer to its Kindle customers, forcing Amazon to now charge its customers $12.99 to $15.99 for e-book versions of bestsellers and most hardcover releases.
