Amazon Opens Up 70% Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text Platform

Amazon announced that the 70 percent royalty option that enables authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell is now available. For each book sold from the Kindle Store for Kindle, Kindle DX, or one of the Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac and Android phones, authors and publishers who choose the new 70 percent royalty option will receive 70 percent of the list price, net of delivery costs.

HP Completes Palm Acquisition… Finally

HP announced this past week that it has completed its acquisition of Palm Inc. at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash.

Books-A-Million to Give Away eBook Readers Daily in July

In an effort to introduce more customers to digital reading, Books-A-Million will give away one eReader each day during the month of July. Every customer who purchases an eBook at Booksamillion.com during the promotion will be automatically entered to win.

Disney Acquires iPhone Rockstar Tapulous

Disney announced the acquisition of Palo Alto-based Tapulous, one of the top developer of music games for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Through a merger agreement, Tapulous is now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company reporting into Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG).
As a part of DIMG’s mobile games group, Tapulous [...]

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