Growing The E-Book Market – With The Amazon Kindle Reader
Considering the very strong link that Amazon have with books and reading it’s no surprise that the Amazon Kindle reader has proved itself to be a very good fit for Amazon’s business model. During 2009, e-book readers really took off. A lot of the credit for that must go to the Amazon Kindle, both the Kindle 2 and DX produced a lot of publicity and helped to establish the e-book reader market in the general public awareness.
Google In Breach Of French Copyright Law
Internet search giant Google has been found guilty of copyright infringement by a court in Paris. La Martiniere, a French publisher, was awarded 300,000 Euros ($ 430,000) in damages and interest. Google was also ordered to pay the sum of 10,000 Euros ($ 14,000) each day until it withdraws the book extracts from its database. The court hearing was initiated by the French Publishers’ Association, La Martiniere and SGDL – an author’s group – who demanded that Google be forced to pay 15m Euros ($ 21m).