Paul Biba’s eBook, eLibrary and ePublishing news compilation for week ending Saturday, August 20

Editor's Note: The following is a compilation of tweets from @PaulKBiba, the former editor of Teleread. @rhizome Has Released the First Public Version of #Webrecorder (Infodocket) Did You Know Audible Will Steal Away Your Credits If You Cancel Your Membership? (The Digital Reader) Kindle in Motion:...

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Kobo Wins Appeal Over Agency eBook Pricing in Canada

Kobo has successfully appealed a 2014 consent agreement between the Canadian Competition Bureau and Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster where the publishers had agreed to abandon agency pricing and let retailers set the retail price of the ebooks they sell. As a result,...

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Barnes & Noble Education is Opening College Bookstores Right and Left

When B&N Education was spun off from Barnes & Noble last year, it said it was going to expand its presence in the college bookstore industry by signing new contracts with colleges and universities to run their bookstores. While at that time that sounded like the usual optimistic hype found...

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Morning Coffee – 19 August 2016

Here are six stories to read this morning. Augmented Reality Can Unlock the Magic Hidden in Bookstores (Book Business Magazine) Business Musings: Agent Agreements (Contracts/Dealbreakers) (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) News Sites Realizing That Relying On Facebook For Traffic Might Not Have Been Wise...

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Facebook Wins First Round of Its Fight With Ad Block Community, But Eyeo Says the Fight Has Just Begun

For the past couple weeks Facebook has been fighting a quiet little war with ad-block users and developers, and while the early battles ended in a draw which favors Facebook the war's not over with yet. AdBlock Plus developer Eyeo published a blog post this morning which explains how the status quo...

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Amazon to Open Pickup Location at the University of Wisconsin Madison

Amazon has struck a deal with the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the exclusive right to open a staffed pickup location on the UW-Madison campus. The retailer has promised to pay the university a minimum of $100,000 a year under a contract which runs for five years, and plans to install its new...

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Kobo & Overdrive – What We Know So Far

In addition to a night-reading mode, what sets the newly launched Kobo Aura One apart from other ereaders is the way it supports library ebooks. The Aura One features close integration with Overdrive, the library ebook vendor bought by Rakuten last spring. There are no first-hand reports yet, and I...

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