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Trajectory Releases Classic Illustrated Digital Comics on Kobo
After announcing it will release more than 120 Classics Illustrated comics as e-books on the Apple platform, Trajectory is now releasing the line through the Kobo e-bookstore and the 7-inch Kobo Vox tablet e-reader.
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Virtual Picture Book World Magic Town Launches
Magic Town, the virtual children's picture book world featuring over 70 stories (with many more to come) from major publishers like Hachette and Simon & Schuster, has launched its Web site, with an app for the iPad and then the iPhone to follow soon.
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Court Rejects Motions to Dismiss Class Action Against Apple, Publishers
In a decision handed down Tuesday, Judge Denise Cote denied motions by Apple and five publishers seeking to dismiss the class action lawsuit brought against them for what the suit contends is fixing e-book prices when they moved to the agency pricing model.
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'The Outsiders' Comes to E
Coinciding with its 45th anniversary, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is now available as an e-book from all major retailers, priced at $9.99 for Kindle and Nook. The announcement was made May 15 by Don Weisberg, president, Penguin Young Readers Group.
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Peter Collingridge To Join Safari Books Online
Peter Collingridge, cofounder of the digital publishing firms Apt Studio and Enhanced Editions, in addition to Bookseer, a book marketing analytics technology, has been hired as v-p of product development at Safari Book Online.
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Tracking Amazon: Mother's Day, Kindle Daily Deal Boost 20 RosettaBooks Titles
Arthur Klebanoff, head of RosettaBooks, told PW that the titles' inclusion as May 13's Gold Box deal made the increase in sales "stratospheric."
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Stanford University Press Launching Digital Imprint
Stanford University Press has started a digital imprint called Stanford Briefs, which will release short e-originals on a variety of academic topics.
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Harry Potter Joining Kindle's Lending Library
Amazon has purchased an exclusive license from Pottermore to loan all seven Harry Potter the titles as e-books through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
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Pocket Star to Be E-book Only
As e-books continue to capture more readers that had read mass market paperbacks, Simon & Schuster is re-launching its Pocket Star mass market line as an e-book only imprint.
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ProQuest Launches On-Demand Service for Researchers
ProQuest has unveiled a new on-demand research service called Udini that bundles a wide range of resources, including peer-reviewed academic and trade journal articles, from thousands of participating publishers for use by independent researchers.
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Kids Connect on Poptropica
The Poptropica virtual world for kids, created by Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, to promote storytelling with islands based on books like the Magic Tree House and Choose Your Own Adventure, added a social networking component earlier this week.
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Tracking Amazon: The KDP 20% Clause
Amazon is well known for its efforts to keep prices as low as possible, especially for digital content. As part of its Kindle Direct Publishing contract, authors who want to receive a 70% royalty must not only set the digital book's list price no higher than that of any other print or digital edition in any sales channel, but the digital edition must be at least 20% lower than that of the print edition.
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Tracking Amazon: Coelho E-books Dropped to $1, Skyrocket
Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist and recent supporter of piracy, has come to an agreement with his publisher HarperCollins to drop the prices of 11 of his books (not including The Alchemist) to $0.99.
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Copia Teams With The Blaze To Offer Interactive Reading, Social Platform
Copia is teaming up The Blaze, a news and information network owned by conservative commentator Glenn Beck, to offer a combination of news, entertainment, community and curated content.
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Llewellyn Launches 'eShorts' Program
Llewellyn Worldwide has launched short, original e-books in its "eShorts" program. eShorts will feature nonfiction titles covering a specific subject in less than 30 pages, and will retail for $1.99.
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Ingram Adds Sesame Street E-book Library
Ingram is expanding its e-book offering for libraries with an e-book subscription option for Sesame Street e-books.
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ALA Executive Board Moves to Intensify E-Book Efforts
At the ALA Executive Board spring meeting, held April 21–22, board members voted to intensify and expand e-book advocacy efforts.
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At West Coast Meeting, Digital Public Library of America Begins to Take Shape
On April 27, DPLA West brought together over 400 librarians, and others, at the Internet Archive to discuss the progress of the most visible effort yet to forge a common digital library for both Americans and the world: the nascent Digital Public Library of America.
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Open Road to Partner with Barcelona eBooks
Continuing its expansion into the international market, Open Road Integrated Media announced a partnership with Barcelona eBooks, an English-language digital publisher with offices in New York and Barcelona.
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Tor/Forge Plans DRM-Free E-books By July
Tor/Forge, one of the largest publishers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, announced plans to drop DRM from all its e-book releases by this July.