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'Vanity Fair' Publishes 'Sopranos' E-book
Vanity Fair magazine is releasing its fourth e-book, The Sopranos: The Vanity Fair Oral History by Sam Kashner and Jim Kelly, an “unexpurgated” digital edition of the magazine’s April profile of the show’s creator David Chase and cast members.
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JManga's Evolving Digital Subscription Service
JManga launched last August as a digital manga site that would be an online subscription portal to the work of 39 different Japanese publishers. PW Comics World spoke with the site's managers to get an update on its evolution.
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Scholarly Publishing 2012: Meet PeerJ
Over the past decade, the open access movement has grown by leaps and bounds, with increased awareness and a slew of institutional, funder, and government mandates. But the real sign of maturity may be in how the business models associated with open access publishing have evolved. And this week comes a fascinating new entry into the field: PeerJ.
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DoJ Has Received 150 Comments on E-book Case
Explaining that it has received a "voluminous" amount of comments on the e-book price-fixing charges it filed against Apple and five publishers, the Department of Justice has asked Judge Denise Cote to allow the department to bypass print publication of the letters in the Federal Register in favor of posting them online.
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Tech News Site GigaOM Launches GigaOM Books
GigaOM, an online news site focused on technology and media disruption, has launched GigaOM Books, a digital publishing imprint that will specialize in e-books about trends in the developing digital economy.
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Barnes & Noble Urges Court to Reject DoJ’s Price-Fixing Settlement
In comments filed this week in federal court, Barnes & Noble argued that the court should scrap the Department of Justice’s price-fixing settlement with three publishers. “The proposed regulatory provisions of the settlement are not in the public interest,” the brief concludes.
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Wattpad Raises $17.3 Million in New Funding
Wattpad, an online writing community and social reading platform focused on mobile devices, announced that it has raised $17.3 million in new funding.
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Zondervan Launches Direct-to-Digital Imprint
Zondervan, the evangelical Christian publishing division of HarperCollins, has begun a new direct-to-digital imprint. Zondervan First launches with the acquisition of a historical fiction title, Love in Three-Quarter Time by Dina Sleiman.
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AcademicPub: Coursepacks Made Easy
AcademicPub, a division of digital content provider SharedBook, is the latest service to reinvent the coursepack, those formerly unauthorized photocopied anthologies of textbook articles circulated to students. AcademicPub offers quick and easy access to a broad range of content from multiple publishers, on-the-fly permissions, and the ability to upload and add original content. Professors can even grab content off the Web to create quality customized educational anthologies—e-books or print, in color or black and white—at affordable prices.
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Tor/Forge Announces DRM-Free E-book Store
After announcing in April that it would begin releasing its titles DRM-free starting in July, Tor took the next step Monday afternoon saying that also beginning that month its e-books titles will be sold in the Tor/Forge DRM-Free E-book Store.
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Penguin Debuts 3D Landscape Books for iPad
Penguin has partnered with digital publisher Citia to introduce a series of interactive, shareable nonfiction works, starting with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants. The Citia edition will be available for $9.99 in the App Store for the iPad.
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Richard Curtis Signs Major Deal With Audible
Richard Curtis, at his eponymous agency, has signed a deal with Audible to produce over 200 audio titles by his clients.
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Argo Navis Adds Three Agenices
The Perseus Books Group's digital distribution platform for authors, Argo Navis, has signed three new literary agencies.
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R&L, NBN Ink E-book Deal with 3M Cloud Library
Rowman & Littlefield and its sister company, distributor National Book Network, have a deal with 3M Library Systems to offer content via the company’s 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Servic
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BiblioCrunch Relaunches with E-book Services Marketplace
After retooling its business model, BiblioCrunch, a free DIY e-book production and distribution platform, is being relaunched with a new e-book production and editorial services marketplace.
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Publishers, Apple Fire Back at DoJ, Class Action
In separate responses made public this morning Apple, Penguin and Macmillan all denied the allegations made against them in a class action lawsuit that charges them with price fixing when the agency model was put in place to sell e-books. The two publishers also denied similar charges leveled against them by the Department of Justice; Apple denied the charges in an earlier filing. Look for details of the filings in a special PW Daily later today.
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OverDrive to Launch Browser-based e-Book Reader
E-book distributor OverDrive has announced plans to launch a new HTML5-based, browser-based e-book reader. The reader, dubbed “OverDrive Read” will enable readers to access OverDrive e-books using standard web browsers, without having to download any software or apps.
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Medallion To Debut TREEbook, a New Time-Triggered E-book Format
Developed by the Medallion Media Group, TREEbook is an innovative new e-book format that features an underlying time-triggered reading experience that allows the book to generate multiple story-lines based on individual reading pace and other embedded triggers.
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Vintage Pushing New Capote Paperbacks With New E-book Editions
To promote new paperbacks editions of Truman Capote's backlist, Vintage has released the author's famous novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's, in e-book for the first time.
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