In an unusual twist Amazon have suspended downloads of SimCity and issued a warning about EA’s servers. In effect they’re saying; you could buy this from us but you’ll not be able to play it and then you’ll be angry at us. Instead, they’re making it clear the problem sits firmly with EA and their […]
Amazon to rebate some US customers
A coalition of American Attorneys Generals has made significant progress in an antitrust lawsuit brought against publishers and retailers. The claim was that the price of ebooks had been rigged unfairly. Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon and Schuster have come to a settlement with the coalition. Amazon Kindle customers, in the States, received an email with […]
Has Pottermore.com hurt the Kindle and helped RPG eBook publishers?
This blog took part in the Pottermore speculation. It was fun. When the news was finally announced it felt, at first blush, a bit of an anti-climax. JK would let Harry Potter eBooks be sold from the site. She had some extra Potter mythos to share with the world. We might be able to do […]
Sanity found as Amazon sides with Cthulhu geeks
Can you imagine the soul destroying horror of working on a huge project, making the results available for free only then to discover that someone’s ripped off your work and has started to sell it at a profit? That’s exactly what happened to Cthulhu Chick, a library student know for her excellent tiny crocheted Cthulhus. […]
