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Ganxy Adds E-book Collections
Ganxy,the online service that allows authors and publishers to sell content direct or through other e-tailers, is adding a feature to make is easier to sell multiple e-books in a single bundle.
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ReKiosk Lands Assange Retail Exclusive
ReKiosk, the independent online retailer, has landed an exclusive with Julian Assange. The start-up, which sells music and books (largely from indie labels and houses), is the only retailer selling Assange's e-book, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, which OR Books released this week.
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Tablet Use, E-book Sales Grow Beyond Amazon, Nook
Tablets and other digital reading devices are expected to be big sellers this holiday season due in part to the growing number of devices available from a host of manufacturers.
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Fictionwise Sites to Shut Down December 4
Citing the growth in popularity of the EPub format and a decline in demand for other e-book formats, Barnes & Noble is shutting down its Fictionwise.com e-book retailing site and its affiliated sites effective December 4. Originally founded by Scott and Stephen Pendergast in 2001, the former independent e-book retailer was sold to B&N in 2009.
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Ruckus Reader Adds New Titles; Revamped App Coming This Month
Ruckus Media, a multimedia children's entertainment developer, is adding digital titles from five children's publishers to its Ruckus Reader app, a digital bookshelf, retail outlet and early reader learning platform.
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E-books Market Share at 22%, Amazon Has 27%
E-books accounted for 22% of all book spending in the second quarter of 2012, only a one percentage point gain from the first quarter of the year, but up from 14% in the comparable period in 2011, according to new figures from Bowker Market Research.
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B&N’s E-Ink Devices Go On Sale in U.K. Today
In a move that puts Barnes & Noble on the path to becoming an international content and technology provider, the retailer began selling its Nook Simple Touch (£79) and Nook Simple Glow-Light (£109) e-ink reading devices today at more than 1,600 retail outlets in the U.K.
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Ingram Adds E-tailers to CoreSource
Ingram announced this morning the names of e-book retailers that have joined its CoreSource Plus network over the past six months: Bilbary, Copia, Books-A-Million, iPublishCentral, Fishpond, BookShout!, Flikkt, Page Foundry, Baker & Taylor, and Ingram's e-textbook platform VitalSource Bookshelf have all signed on. All new retail channels are expected to be live by the end of 2012.
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Attorneys General Notice Says Final Payment for E-books May Change
After Amazon and other companies began notifying customers over the weekend that they are entitled to credits for e-books bought from publishers who are part of the e-book pricing fixing lawsuit, Kinsella Media, the "notice provider for the State Attorneys General E-book Settlements," has issued a release notifying the public about their rights under the state settlements.
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Amazon Shares 'Good News' About DoJ Suit With Kindle Customers
In an email sent over the weekend, Amazon alerted its Kindle customers that they are entitled to e-book credits as a result of the recently settled Department of Justice lawsuit filed against a group of publishers and Apple.
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Busy Kobo To Acquire Aquafadas, Raise Self-pub Royalty and More
After launching a self-publishing platform this summer, e-book retailer Kobo has enlarged its publishing portfolio again after agreeing to acquire Aquafadas, a digital publishing platform that allows publishers to easily and economically build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers without using a programmer.
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BookShout Addition Lets Readers Import E-Books from Any Platform
BookShout, a social reading and book retail application, is introducing new technology that will allow its users to legally import their previous and future e-book purchases into their BookShout account, free of charge, no matter where they were purchased.
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A New Way to Buy and Sell Digital Content via Ganxy
Ganxy, a three-year-old online service that was originally started to sell music, goes live today with the goal to give small and mid-size presses, in particular, an easy way to sell their content online.
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B&N Unveils Redesigned Nook Tablet Devices
Barnes & Noble has unveiled the 7-inch Nook HD starting at $199 (8GB) and a 9-inch Nook HD+ starting at $269 (16GB), a new generation of redesigned lightweight multimedia tablet readers with sharper, high resolution screens, faster processors and new shopping interfaces and recommendation software.
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Marks Out at Bookish
Caroline Marks, who took over as head of Bookish from Paulo Lemgruber just about one year ago, has left the company. A spokesperson confirmed Marks’s departure, but said the three founding Bookish publishers--Penguin, Simon & Schuster and Hachette—will move forward.
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A Mixed First Half for Worldwide Publishing
E-book sales accounted for roughly 20% of worldwide revenue in the first half of 2012 at four of the five large publishers that reported six-month results in recent weeks.
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Ingram to Distribute Some Amazon E-books
Amazon Publishing’s New York adult group has struck an e-book distribution deal with Ingram to distribute e-book editions of its titles to other e-bookstores through Ingram’s CoreSource. “We welcome Amazon Publishing’s New York adult group to the growing list of publishers who use our service,” said Phil Ollila, chief content officer at Ingram.
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B&N Picks John Lewis Department Store as First U.K. Partner
The first U.K. retailer to agree to sell Barnes & Noble’s Nook E-Ink readers is John Lewis, a department store with 37 outlets that carries a large selection of technology products. The chain will begin carry the Nook Simple Touch and Nook with GlowLight later this fall in Lewis electronics aisles throughout the U.K. as well as on its Web site.
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Amazon Launches India Kindle Store
Amazon has launched the India Kindle Store with over one million e-books, including 70 of 100 Nielsen bestsellers.
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Report: E-book Prices Fell in 2011; Boomers Don’t Buy the Most Books
Despite the contention by the Department of Justice that collusion between five major publishers and Apple led to higher e-book prices, a new report from Bowker shows that e-book prices fell across all major categories between 2010 and 2011. The average price of a fiction e-book in 2011 was $5.24, down from $5.69 in 2010. In nonfiction, the decline was more dramatic, with the average price falling from $9.04 to $6.47. In the juvenile segment, the average e-book price dropped to $4.47 in 2011 from $4.88, the report found.
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