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SEATTLE, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, today announced an agreement with Beijing Apabi Technology Co. Ltd., (Apabi) to enable the discovery of its vast collection of Chinese e-book content in the Summon® web-scale discovery service. Students, researchers and librarians using the Summon service will be able to discover Chinese-language titles from the comprehensive collection of e-books from Apabi, alongside their library's other...

NEW YORK, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bilbary, an emerging internet-based, consumer e-book library and retail bookstore, announced today new partnerships with the first three of seven of the top publishing houses in the industry: HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Wiley. Bilbary will carry all e-books offered by these publishers and their subsidiaries which includes 40,000 titles, raising the total number of titles in the library to more than 375,000. "We are pleased...

Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com Apple had some tough words for the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday as they accused them of siding “with monopoly, rather than competition” when they sued Apple and 6 publishers for allegedly price-fixing their e-books. The DOJ filed a lawsuit in April accusing Apple and the other publishers of trying to retaliate against Amazon.com for offering their books at the $9.99 price point. Three of the publishers have decided to settle with the DOJ:...

Boasting access to over 600 complete e-books for all reading levels, 7 Speed Reading™ today announces a collection to make any bookwork proud. New York City, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2012 Boasting over six hundred e-books spanning a huge range of topics, 7 Speed Reading™ today announces what it believes could be the world’s largest collection of speed reading e-books. The books form part of the official 7 Speed Reading™ software package, a famous and world-renowned platform for...

A New York-based District Court judge has denied a request by Apple and five major publishers to throw out a case which charges them of colluding to inflate electronic book prices in 2010. The lawsuit by consumers originated from accusations that Apple and the publishers -- Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster of collaborating to inflate prices in order to challenge Amazon.com's cost-based dominance of the e-book marked, Grant McCool of Reuters...

NEW YORK, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As universities and educational publishers grapple with the challenge of driving acceptance and adoption of e-books on college campuses, McGraw-Hill Higher Education has come one step closer to reaching the e-book tipping point through a new partnership with the University of Minnesota Bookstores. The partnership allows the company to provide e-books to large numbers of students at reduced prices, helping to make college more affordable and...

BusinessCore™ e-book subscription collection provides access to thousands of e-book titles for corporate learning and research. Ipswich, MA (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released its first e-book subscription collection for corporations. BusinessCore™ is designed to support the learning and research needs of business professionals. The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content. The BusinessCore collection includes...

Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com Apple, along with 5 of the nation’s largest publishers have had an antitrust lawsuit filed against them. The US filed the suit on Wednesday, alleging they have conspired to limit competition in the e-book market by adjusting their prices. The outcome of this case could have long-lasting implications for the fast-growing industry of e-book publishing. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is alleging the CEOs of these companies (which include publishers Simon...

The Department of Justice is suing Apple and major book publishers like Macmillan and HarperCollins over the pricing of e-books. The Justice Department is alleging that Apple worked with publishers to artificially raise e-book prices. "Apple facilitated the publisher defendants' collective effort to end retail price competition by coordinating their transition to an agency model across all retailers," according to the complaint. The companies have denied any wrongdoing and plan to...

According to new research from Pew Internet & American Life Project, e-books are becoming more popular among Americans. Pew found that 31 percent of adults surveyed in a February survey said they had read an e-book in the last year, compared to 17 percent who reported doing so in December. The research firm said that this was in line with a major spike in the ownership of e-reader devices or tablets during the holiday season. Those who read e-books read more books than those who...