Publishing NewsAmazon / antitrust / ATT / DirecTV / Ebooks / Facebook / games / Paypal / Women of the YearComments Off on Thursday News: ebooks v. games, DOJ sues DirecTV, Facebook’s growth, and Bono as ‘woman of the year’
Paypal’s New eBook Report: Consumers Are More Willing to Pay for eBooks Than Video Games – Nate Hoffelder’s take on a new report from Paypal that looks at international ebook and game buying patterns. Beyond the not-really-news that Amazon still leads in the sale of ebooks (surprise!), it seems that games ... more >
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PayPal broke up with eBay so it could take on Apple – After 12 years together, PayPay and eBay are getting a divorce, so that PayPal can move on to bigger and better things. Unfortunately, PayPal’s growth was being overshadowed by its relationship with eBay, which has not been moving ... more >
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BEA Rebrands Consumer Day BookCon – Possibly recognizing the wincing awfulness of anything book-related being called “Consumer Day,” BEA is elevating the profile of that particular day and calling it “BookCon,” which will allow exhibitors to relocate their booths to the BookCon hall or purchase a “satellite booth” there for ... more >
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Acxiom gives you a peek at the data it collects about you – So remember the stories about how Target can send a different mailer to you than it does to your neighbor based upon all the little footprints you leave in their store and on the internet? One of ... more >
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Underwater map of fiber cabling – Telegeography.com Thought this was very cool. The screenshot captures just a tiny portion of the entire world’s fiber cabling. PayPal Bans Major File-Hosting Services Over Piracy Concerns | TorrentFreak – “In recent weeks, PayPal has cut off many of the world’s largest filehosting sites ... more >
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News Yesterday, Paypal announced that it would be reversing its stance on bans on fiction. According to the Chicago Tribune, Paypal will look at books on an individual basis: PayPal’s new policy will focus only on e-books that contain potentially illegal images, not e-books that are limited to just text, ... more >