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Can Apple even enforce its abusive iBooks Author EULA?
The always helpful Passive Voice lawyer weighs in on whether Apple has created a EULA for iBooks Author that no sane judge would consider valid.
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Tagged EULA, fine print, rights grab, software, textbooks
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Apple gives book creators beautiful, golden handcuffs
Today Apple raised the bar on interactive textbook publishing, with the introduction of a revamped iBooks app for the iPad and a free textbook publishing app for the Mac. If you’ve got an iPad, a fairly new Mac, and a … Continue reading
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Tagged app store, Apple iOS, ebooks, EULA, fine print, ibooks, licenses, ownership, publishing, restrictions, textbooks
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You can now rent textbooks from the Amazon Kindle Store
Today Amazon announced the opening of its new Kindle Textbooks store (www.amazon.com/kindletextbooks). Titles will be available to rent for periods from 30 to 360 days, and you can increase the rental period in increments as small as one day, or … Continue reading
Giant-sized Kindle DX looks awesome, comes at a giant-sized price
Well, I was hoping to see some sort of subsidy announcement today from the newspapers when Amazon announced its big-screen Kindle DX, and while the New York Times did say that they’ll do just that at some point later this … Continue reading
Update: Amazon's large format Kindle to be tested at universities this fall
The Wall Street Journal has dug up some more details about tomorrow’s Kindle announcement, this time regarding the education and textbook market. Here’s the summary: Select students at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland will be given Kindle devices this … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, announcements, education, kindle, kindle 3, large format, large size, newspapers, rumors, textbooks
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