E-tailer Amazon has been leading the charge for electronic books almost as long as anyone with their Kindle lineup, so it should be a surprise to no one that the company is now selling more e-books than print books -- at least across the pond.
Amazon has announced a milestone for e-books, with the online retailer confirming that Kindle books are now outselling print books in the United Kingdom. The more surprising aspect of this announcement is that this milestone falls on the second anniversary of the Kindle's arrival there.
In 2012, Amazon.co.uk has sold 114 Kindle books for every 100 print books -- numbers that include sales of hardcover and paperback books sold by the e-tailer where to Kindle edition currently exists. Free Kindle books were excluded from the data, but obviously, e-books would have outsold print by even higher numbers if those had been included.
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Apple Finally Cracking Down on Websites Selling iOS Beta Access
Want to run the latest iOS betas but too cheap to pay $99 per year to become a developer? It turns out there are websites that will sell you an activation for your device, but this unfortunate practice is becoming extinct as Apple finally cracks down on the practice.
MacStories.net is reporting that a number of websites involved in the questionable practice of adding an iOS device's Unique Device Identifier (UDID) to their developer account have vanished in recent days, and it appears Apple has finally taken action against them.
The illicit practice of using a $99 per year iOS developer account to sell access to betas has been commonplace for several generations of the software, recently brought to light by a Wired story.
Apple allows developers to configure up to 100 devices, and that generous amount was racking up some quick cash for unscrupulous companies who were offering UDID access to iOS betas for roughly $8.99 each. One such company reportedly had 23 different developer accounts paying out $2,277 annually to Apple, racking up $75,000 since June, when the first iOS 6 beta was released.
The happy fun times appear to be over for many of these sites, as one site owner told MacStories that Apple is now being "fairly heavy-handed" about using DMCA requests to get such websites such down by their hosting provider.
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MacStories.net is reporting that a number of websites involved in the questionable practice of adding an iOS device's Unique Device Identifier (UDID) to their developer account have vanished in recent days, and it appears Apple has finally taken action against them.
The illicit practice of using a $99 per year iOS developer account to sell access to betas has been commonplace for several generations of the software, recently brought to light by a Wired story.
Apple allows developers to configure up to 100 devices, and that generous amount was racking up some quick cash for unscrupulous companies who were offering UDID access to iOS betas for roughly $8.99 each. One such company reportedly had 23 different developer accounts paying out $2,277 annually to Apple, racking up $75,000 since June, when the first iOS 6 beta was released.
The happy fun times appear to be over for many of these sites, as one site owner told MacStories that Apple is now being "fairly heavy-handed" about using DMCA requests to get such websites such down by their hosting provider.
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Monday, April 9, 2012
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