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Kno Textbook App Now Available for Android, Windows 7
Educational software developer Kno is extending its textbook app to the Android and Windows 7 operating systems.
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A Look Around the Digital-First Comics Landscape
Digital-first comics are released in digital format before they eventually reach print. The majority of digital comics are digitized versions of print comics and digital-first offerings are beginning to represent an alternative, more specific market as publishers begin to treat digital as a complement to print rather than a replacement.
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Attorney, Music Industry Vet Asks to File Amicus Brief in DoJ Price-Fixing Case
California attorney and music industry veteran Bob Kohn has asked Judge Denise Cote for permission to file an amicus brief in connection with the DoJ’s price-fixing settlement in order "to correct potentially misleading statements of law contained in the DOJ Response."
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ALA Releases Report on Library E-book Business Models
Responding to what it calls "urgent member concerns," the American Library Association's Digital Content & Libraries Working Group released a brief informational report on the e-book market.
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University of Chicago Press Partners with OUP on E-book Platform
The University of Chicago Press today has inked and agreement to partner with Oxford University Press to launch Chicago Scholarship Online via OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform.
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Top Cow Uses Kickstarter to Reboot ‘Cyber Force’
By the time you finish reading this article, Top Cow Productions may have reached its goal of raising $75,000 on Kickstarter. The partner studio of Image Comics has launched a Kickstarter campaign, asking new and “lapsed” fans to back a project that reimagines its most popular series, Cyber Force.
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Kno, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Ink K-12 e-Textbook Deal
Kno, an educational software company that creates interactive digital textbooks for the iPad, is moving into the K-12 school market after announcing an agreement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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New BISG Policy Statement Endorses EPUB 3
BISG has announced the publication of a new Policy Statement endorsing EPUB 3 as the accepted and preferred standard.
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Open Road Signs Chicken Soup
Open Road has signed agreement with Chicken Soup for the Publishing Soul, the owner of the Chicken Soup brand.
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Open Road Releasing Digital Compilation for BlogHer
Open Road is releasing an e-book anthology, in partnership with the BlogHer network, called The BlogHer Voice of the Year: 2012.
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'San Francisco Chronicle' Launches E-books Only Column
Starting this Sunday, the "Books" section of the San Francisco Chronicle will publish The E-Reader, a monthly column devoted to e-books.
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O’Reilly Digital Pricing Webcast Focuses on Benefits of Direct Selling
Digital publishing offers a wide variety of flexible and effective pricing strategies according to Logos Bible Software CEO Bob Pritchett during yesterday’s O’Reilly Media webcast “Digital Pricing and Lessons Learned,” particularly if the publisher sells direct to consumers.
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Blurb Launches Creation Tool for "Fixed Format" E-books
Publishing and marketing company Blurb has made improvements to its e-book platform and plug-in for Adobe InDesign that allow users to design fixed format e-books for iPad, optimize them via a new online editing tool, and then sell their work in the Blurb Bookstore.
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ebrary Adds Titles for Vocational and Community Colleges
For the community colleges and vocational schools it works with, ebrary has added a number of e-books, as well as acquisition models.
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skBookshop Announces Facebook Mobile Support
skBookshop.com, a web service that helps publishers manage their online marketing and promotions through apps on mobile devices and Facebook, has announced new support for the Facebook mobile platform.
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Cat in the Hat App and E-books Launch
Random House Children's Books and Dr. Seuss Enterprises have launched a digital book publishing program based on the PBS Kids show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!. The program includes six e-books and the first ever Dr. Seuss coloring app.
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Penguin Lodges Appeal in E-Book Consumer Case
Lawyers for Penguin yesterday filed a petition with U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals challenging district Judge Denise Cote's June 27 decision denying the publisher's motion to compel arbitration for Amazon and Barnes & Noble e-book customers in the consumer class action case derived from an alleged e-book price-fixing scheme.
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Guinness Tests E-book Original Market with Anti-Olympic Title
They may not be the kinds of world records to make headlines in London, but Guinness is trying its hand on e-book only publishing with a new title, Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions.
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Sourcebooks Launches Hear It Read It E-Books
Sourcebooks has launched e-book editions of eight Hear It Read It Classics, which are abridged versions of stories, including King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and Peter Pan, which Sourcebooks published in 2008 in hardcover with an audio CD.
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DoJ Reviews Comments, Says E-book Deal to Go Ahead
After receiving 868 comments regarding its proposed settlement with Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins in its e-book price fixing lawsuit, the Department of Justice has determined that the proposed “final judgment” provides “an appropriate and effective remedy” for the antitrust violations alleged in its complaint “and therefore is in the public interest.”
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