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Ingram's Vital Source Bookshelf and Blackboard Learn Integrate
Blackboard Inc. and Ingram have agreed to integrate Blackboard Learn and Vital Source, giving students and faculty access to Vital Source's e-textbook platform directly within Blackboard Learn's system. The integration will be available for both online and mobile users.
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OverDrive Establishes Australian Office
OverDrive this week announced the opening of a new office in Melbourne, Australia, in an effort to expand its presence in Australia, New Zealand and throughout the Asia Pacific region. The expansion comes after the acquisition of Booki.sh, the Australian e-book company, in March.
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Content Services 2012: Converting PDFs into E-books
For publishers and content services suppliers, ensuring a smooth and quick PDF-to-ePUB conversion—sans typos and formatting errors—has taken on a new urgency now that e-books are selling so well, and converting print titles into e-books is on top of everybody’s digital agenda.
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Tracking Amazon: The Harry Potter Kindle Question
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is available as an e-book at Amazon only as part of its Kindle Owners' Lending Library, but it still hit #128 in the Kindle bestsellers list.
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New Service Lets O’Reilly Consumers Sync E-books Using Dropbox
O’Reilly Media has teamed with Dropbox.com, a popular cloud storage service, to offer O’Reilly e-book consumers the ability to sync the e-books in their accounts with any digital reading device they may own.
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Tor to Publish New John Scalzi Novel as E-book Serial First
In what the publisher is calling a “unique new project,” Tor Books will publish The Human Division, the next book by bestselling science fiction author John Scalzi, as a weekly serialized e-book, before releasing it as a complete hardcover and e-book.
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Trajectory Focuses on E-books, Children's Content, Global Distribution
Founded in late 2011 by group of digital publishing veterans, Trajectory is a digital publisher and technology developer based in Cambridge, Mass.
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BISG Releases Report on Book Product Metadata
The Book Industry Study Group has published Development, Use, and Modification of Book Product Metadata, a report on how publishers, retailers and other vendors in the digital supply chain create and use metadata.
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As ALA Opens, Pew Issues Report On Libraries and E-Books
The good news, according to a report issued today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, is that 69% of adults say libraries are important to them and their families. The not-so-good news: surprisingly few library patrons are aware of their library's e-book offerings.
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Penguin Launches E-book Library Lending Pilot Program
With the American Library Association annual meeting set to begin later this week, Penguin has announced a pilot program to digitally lend its titles.
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Tracking Amazon: Harry Potter Gets Borrowed
Starting June 19, Amazon.com customers can now borrow all seven Harry Potter books in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL).
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At Open Road, Backlist Is the New Frontlist
When it comes to digital, the state of the e-book grabs all the headlines. But digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media, the greatest impact technology holds for publishing may be in the way e-books are now marketed. “I’m a huge believer that the entire time you are the publisher of an author’s book, you should be thinking about that author,” explained Open Road’s chief marketing officer Rachel Chou, “and making the most out of every opportunity.”
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Levin’s Artepublishing to Do Enhanced Illustrated Books
This is the most exciting time of my career,” said Hugh Levin, the 40-year publishing veteran who has spent the bulk of his career with illustrated books, including as founder of Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. His new venture, Artepublishing, bridges the traditional (high-quality illustrated books) with the new (iPad) in the form of enhanced, interactive e-books.
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Panel Mania: Ulysses Seen Book Two
Ulysses Seen is the comics adaptation of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, a masterwork of 20thCentury literature, created by Rob Berry. The excerpt offers the newest completed pages of Ulysses Seen that were debuted on the website of the National Library of Ireland in celebration of this year’s June 16 Bloomsday event
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‘Ulysses Seen,’ and Rob Berry Feted in Dublin on Bloomsday
Robert Berry, artist for Ulysses Seen, an app and online comics adaptation of James Joyce’s 20th Century literary masterpiece Ulysses, is traveling to Dublin for the first time to take part in celebrations that will mark Bloomsday as well Ulysses’s entry into the public domain.
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Kindle Upgrades
Following a software update, Kindle for iPad, Kindle Cloud Reader, and Kindle for Android now support children’s books, comics, and graphic novels, Amazon said this morning. Over 1,000 children’s and comic book titles in full color are now available on Kindle Fire, Kindle for Android, Kindle for iPad, and Kindle Cloud Reader.
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Terry Goodkind to Self-Publish Next Novel
Bestselling fantasy author Terry Goodkind will self-publish his next novel, The First Confessor.
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HC Launches Program to Publish English Language Titles Globally
In a move to make its English language titles available around the globe, HarperCollins has launched a program called HarperCollins 360.
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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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