Amazon is coming under fire for sanctioning Macmillan, after the book publisher said it wanted to raise prices for its e-books. But in reality, Amazon is just doing to the book industry what Apple did to the record labels in the early days of the iP…
A new development in the Amazon vs. Macmillan fiasco. Amazon just posted an announcementindicating that will be “capitulating” to Macmillan by selling the publishers’ books for their desired prices.The issue is Macmillan is trying to price their e-b…
We’re not going to see the iPad hit stores for another two months, but it is already changing the ebook game and forcing publishers and consumers to pick sides.Last night, several blogs including Venturebeat and NYT’s Bits Blog noticed s…
There is a useful WebmasterWorld thread that has summarized some of the larger issues that have rose to the top discussions in the various forums on AdSense. They point out three main topics disturbing publishers: A number of publishers complaining….
What really jumped out to me as I looked over the iPad’s feature set is that the device is clearly built for media consumption. Movies, music, books, news — the bread and butter content that keeps iTunes humming. That’s good for Apple, obviously, b…
Google claims they try to be pretty fair with publishers and publishing business models. They are fine with indexing preview versions of a page and just showing a user that, you can make the full article free, you can make the first x clicks free. O…
A WebmasterWorld thread has a unique discussion going on about Google AdSense and their stop words. In this discussion, some publishers have landing pages targeting the city, Cumming, Georgia. Clearly, the word ‘Cumming’ is an adult word, but it is….
Judging from what we have seen so far, Apple’s new iPad will be a great device for reading e-books. The iPad will obviously come with Apple’s own e-reader software – but that’s only half the story. Users will also be able to read their Kindle and B&…
Now that the iPad is finally official, any publisher that wasn’t already figuring out how to bring their content to a color, touchscreen device is probably scrambling to do it now. That’s a bit easier said than done though — while it probably wou…
Often when Google releases earnings, AdSense publishers try to extract how much share Google is paying them of the earnings. Ad you know, a publisher places an ad from Google on their site, the advertiser pays Google and then Google…