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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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Library of America Steps Up Its Digital Effort
Launched at the end of 2011, the e-book program of the Library of America has released eight titles so far with plans to publish about two e-books a month for the next year. LOA publisher Max Rudin explained that the nonprofit charged with producing high-quality, beautifully designed editions of the best of American writing took its time to enter the digital market because it needed to make sure it did it right. “Our e-books have to be scrupulously produced, just like our print books, and it’s taken us a while” to find the right partner, Rudin said. That partner turned out to be eBook Architects of Austin, Tex.
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'Leverage' Releases iBookstore Companion Guide
A free companion e-book has been released on the iBookstore to coincide with the beginning of the fifth season of Leverage. The Leverage Season 4 companion book has exclusive content like story documents, pre-visualization, storyboards, and video clips.
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Open Road Partners with Good Books
Open Road Integrated Media is teaming with independent publisher Good Books to produce a variety of digital titles based on Good Books print books. Good Books is best known for its cookbooks and a selection of its bestselling Fix-It and Forget-It cookbooks will be included in the debut digital list this fall.
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Comic-Con: Fantagraphics to Release Love & Rockets e-Books via Comixology
Fantagraphics Books announced an agreement with digital vendor Comixology at the San Diego Comic-con International to release the first four issues of the Hernandez brothers’ Love and Rockets New Stories in digital editions for the iPad.
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Comic-Con: Digital Distribution, Crowdfunding and More Neil Gaiman
Digital distribution continued to make news at the San Diego Comic-con with a a new comics-specific crowdfunding venture from iVerse, digital first titles from Archaia and e-book news from Abrams ComicsArt, Viz Media and digital vendor Comixology.
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SDCC 2012: Abrams ComicsArts Goes Digital with Comixology
Abrams ComicsArts used its panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International to announce an agreement with digital vendor Comixology to begin digital distribution of its graphic novel and graphic nonfiction titles. Abrams ComicsArts will launch its digital program with four full-length graphic novels and one Art book, with more titles to come.
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SDCC 2012: Viz Media Expands Digital Manga to Android Smartphones
Manga publisher and anime distributor Viz Media confirmed plans to expand its digital manga program to the Android operating system for smartphones today at its panel at the San Diego Comic-Con international.
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GEN Manga, Editora Abril Ink Deal for Print Distribution in Brazil
GEN Manga, a print and digital publishing venture specializing in doujinshi, or Japanese self-published and indie manga titles, announced an agreement with Editora Abril to distribute its titles in print in Brazil. Portuguese versions of GEN Manga titles will be available in Brazil beginning this summer.
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Amazon Introduces GameCircle for Kindle Fire
Amazon has introduced GameCircle for Kindle Fire, and released a series of APIs for developers. GameCircle offers gaming customers a series of features like achievements, leaderboards, and sync, meant to add to the social components of gaming on the Kindle Fire.
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