Amazon’s Commitment To Cheap Books In Evidence
E-book readers are extremely popular today. A lot of the credit for that must go to the Amazon Kindle of course – but there are plenty of other e-book readers to choose from today. Nevertheless, even although there is huge variety of e-book readers available today, the Kindle retains its number 1 position.
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.
Reaching A Larger Audience With E-Book Readers
Online retail giant, Amazon, was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and the original Amazon website launched in 1995. Today Amazon is an extremely successful business and one of the best recognised and most trusted brands on the planet. It’s easy to forget what a radical idea buying books online and having them delivered by mail was at the time. Many business analysts predicted that Amazon would struggle – and it wasn’t until the end of 2001 that they reported profits.
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).