Hachette today followed Macmillan’s pricing strategy and said it would raise prices on its e-books. The approach will use the agency model where the publisher, not the retailer, sets the prices. It will notably use the Apple price scheme and ask between $13 and $15 for new and bestselling titles as well as change prices over time, with some older and shorter titles costing as little as $6….
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Hachette today followed Macmillan’s pricing strategy and said it would raise prices on its e-books. The approach will use the agency model where the publisher, not the retailer, sets the prices. It will notably use the Apple price scheme and ask between $13 and $15 for new and bestselling titles as well as change prices over time, with some older and shorter titles costing as little as $6….
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Amazon is being forced to rethink many of the design decisions of its Kindle e-book reader after the introduction of Apple’s iPad.
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New pictures claimed to be parts for a prototype fourth-generation iPhone show a front panel slightly taller than the current model, along with some other minor internal design tweaks.
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A curious tidbit from VentureBeat: The A4 chip that Apple’s pimping hardcore in iPad promos might not’ve been done by their PA Semi team (which Apple acquired for $278 million). Their source says it was designed by Apple’s existing VLSI team, who made custom chips like northbridges for the old G5 Macs.
Sounds possible, since there likely isn’t a whole lot “custom” going in the A4’s actual design, which by all appearances is an ARM Cortex A9 wrapped up with a PowerVR graphics core and some other parts in a custom SoC. So, new question, if it’s true: What’s PA Semi, which Apple said would be working on chips for iPhones actually working on? A more customized chip would be interesting, since PA Semi’s true talent was in designing chips with ridiculous power efficiencies. [VentureBeat]
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Microsoft corporate communications head Frank Shaw has quickly rejected former VP Dick Brass’ assertions that the company is no longer innovative by citing examples of what Shaw views as success. The PR leader believes Microsoft should be seen by its “broad impact” and notes that, in spite of ClearType’s delays, it’s now on more than a billion PCs. Scale is more important than speed, he argues….
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Gravity Applications has launched Tags 2.0, a new version of its filetagging software. The tool lets users tag all files and folders within Finder, as well as e-mails, photos or bookmarks in Safari. With the upgrade a new search engine has been introduced, adding tag search. The update also includes a tag browser, and support for Mailplane, Firefox and various Adobe applications….
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