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by | March 20, 2010

3 Reasons Why E-Book Failed In 2000 And What It Means For 2010

There is no doubt that 2010 has a lot to gain from the e-book industry. There are six e-book devices (Kindle, Nook, iPad etc) in the market and more soon to be released. As per predictions from a major business … Continue reading →

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by | March 18, 2010

Ebook Pricing War Between Apple and Amazon – Who Will Win Publishers or Amazon

As we all know book publishing industry is going through one of the biggest industry defining change in last 100+ years. When the industry seemed all ready to go ahead with the ebooks (with Amazon successfully launching and selling kindle and kindle … Continue reading →

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by | February 3, 2010

Amazon Vs.The Publishing Industry

In the midst of the latest battle over e-book prices ($9.99 vs $14.99) between online retailer Amazon (AMZN) and the publishing giant Macmillan the e-book industry is faced with a series of serious questions. Whether Amazon will be approached by … Continue reading →

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by | February 1, 2010

Amazon Shares Down 6% After Accepting Macmillan’s eBook Pricing Strategy

After a much heated up debate between the two companies, Amazon.com has finally agreed to give in to publishing giant Macmillan and will be selling e-books at a higher price (price that Amazon thinks is too high). Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf … Continue reading →

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by | January 14, 2010

Creating database of books for our service from publishers ONIX feed and openlibrary.org

Really thankful to Openlibrary.org(Special thanks to George) to have done a wonderful job of aggregating books data from across the globe. I bulk downloaded the data from their site and now trying to import it into mysql database using a php script. … Continue reading →

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by | January 13, 2010

Our eBook Website So Far….

Haven’t got much time to blog anything new today. But very happy with the progress made so far in our (my husabnd and mine) social ebook site that we would be launching (hopefully) soon. Just completed importing 15 million books … Continue reading →

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