Filed under: Retail , Software , Internet , iPad John Siracusa drew my attention to an article by Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price , in which he says that the company actually plans to keep their hardcover/paperback separation even while selling ebooks. While new hardcover ebooks will sell for $14.99 and $12.99 (”a tremendous discount from the price of the printed hardcover books”), the company will aim to sell “ebook editions of paperback new releases” for as low as $6.99. As Siracusa goes on to say, “now let us all sit back and ponder the concept of ‘paperback’ and ‘hardcover’ ebooks.” Macmillan is sticking with an old pricing scheme even in a brand new marketplace.
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Macmillan trying to sell readers ‘hardcover’ ebooks
While she was a teenaged cheerleader, Whitney Harper downloaded music using P2P networks . She was caught by MediaSentry, which investigated file-sharing for the music labels, but she claimed that she was an “innocent infringer” under US copyright law.
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Judges: you can’t claim "innocence" of musical copyrights
The mother of a dancing toddler is dancing after winning a closely watched copyright case.
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Dancing tot prevails over UMG in YouTube fair use case
Philips has been on somewhat of a roll with new releases overseas, and the outfit’s new SoundSphere might just be the most intriguing yet. Generally speaking, home stereos don’t do much for us, but the minty fresh MCi900 and MCD900 definitely add a fresh touch on an age-old concept. Both systems are equipped with a pair of speakers, 100 watts of amplification and “free floating” tweeters that are outside of the enclosure.
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Philips breathes new life into home stereos with SoundSphere
Nokia’s downright seductive X6 just started shipping to those across the pond, and shortly after the company announced a Comes Without Music edition, along comes this: a NAM version for those who call North America home, sweet home.
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Nokia serves North American X6 up for pre-order: $455 unlocked
Filed under: Multimedia , Video , iTunes Apple has been courting US TV networks recently in a bid to get them to drop episode pricing from its current level of $1.99 down to $0.99. The New York Times reports that, predictably, many TV networks are resisting Apple’s push for lower episode prices , even though iTunes’s initial $0.99 per song price point is arguably what made purchasing digital music palatable to consumers
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TV networks continue to resist iTunes price cuts
Filed under: Gaming , Software , Odds and ends , Apple , Developer , iPhone , App Store , Music Keita Takahashi is a strange guy. He’s most known for delivering the brilliant Katamari Damacy to us on the Playstation 2, a game in which you rolled around a ball that stuck to everything in the world, growing bigger and bigger as more and more stuff collected on it.
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Noby Noby Boy out now on iPhone, and it’s awesome
Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore did a really thorough job yesterday of walking us through the key hubs on the shiny new Windows Phone 7 OS , but one area that was conspicuously missed out in the overview was the Marketplace .
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Windows Phone 7 Series Marketplace gets pictured
