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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 | 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 | December 14, 2009

The big debate: Who owns the digital rights-author or publisher

The big debate around who owns the digital rights to the books published in pre-digital age has further intensified. Few months back a district court actually ruled in favor of the authors. But this is not going to end the debate Major … Continue reading →

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