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Viz Media Tabs Gagan Singh to Head New Viz Labs Tech Unit
manga and anime publisher/distributor Viz Media, is launching Viz Labs, a new division at the company that will consolidate its engineering and digital business platforms into a single unit.
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TruLOVEstories: Vintage Romance Meets Electronic Distribution
BroadLit, a new transmedia company from the founders of Broadthink, is launching TruLOVEstories.com, an online romance hub featuring e-books, casual digital games, customized avatars, licensed merchandise, and other features.
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Tracking Amazon: Byliner Dominates Kindle Singles Chart
Byliner, the digital publisher of single-sitting reads, currently has 12 titles in the top 50 of Amazon's Kindle Singles chart, including the #1 title.
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George Harrison Enhanced E-book Hits iTunes May 1
Abrams and Harrisongs have announced an enhanced e-book for Olivia Harrison's George Harrison: Living in the Material World, releasing May 1.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Owen Meany' Proves Low-Priced Classics Sell
The e-book version of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, released March 13 by HarperCollins, has jumped to #28 on the Kindle bestseller list from #563. The Kindle book is priced at $2.99, far less than the paperback, which is $10.87 and is ranked #5,710.
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Sourcebooks to Distribute Educational E-books via Examville
Sourcebooks has reached an agreement with Examville.com, an international online educational content marketplace, to release its educational content through the Examville online platform.
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Blackwell's Agrees with Ingram VitalSource
Blackwell's has agreed with Ingram's VitalSource for its e-textbook solutions, and is expected to launch in May 2012.
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Turow, Apple Worry About Amazon Monopoly
After keeping silent immediately following the Department of Justice’s lawsuit on Wednesday both Apple and the Authors Guild reacted to the actions Thursday.
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ABA Calls DoJ Ruling "Baffling"
Amid a barrage of largely puzzled reactions within the publishing community to the antitrust lawsuit the DoJ filed Wednesday alleging five of the largest publishers colluded with Apple to fix e-book prices, the American Booksellers Association told PW it found the government's action "baffling."
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Tracking Amazon: 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' Sees Jump with Low Kindle Price
William L. Shirer's bestselling book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1960, is being sold as an e-book by RosettaBooks for $2.99 and has made it up to #48 on the Kindle bestseller list.
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Open Road To Publish Four Joyce Maynard E-books
Open Road will publish four Joyce Maynard e-books, including a special anniversary edition of Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties. The other titles are To Die For, Domestic Affairs, and Baby Love. They will be published as part of Open Road's Author Brand program on April 17.
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The Broad Strokes of the Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S Price-Fixing Settlement
Three publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. PW takes an initial look at the broad strokes of the deal, and what it means for the settling publishers.
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Penguin Will Stand Firm in Antitrust Action
In a statement issued late Wednesday afternoon, Penguin Group chairman John Makinson said that the company has no plans to settle with the Department of Justice or the various states that have filed suit against the company over e-book prices.
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States Cash In on E-book Settlement
While the settlements the Department of Justice reached with Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster did not call for any monetary penalties, the deal does not prevent other litigation from moving forward, and 16 states had filed their own lawsuits against against Penguin, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Apple.
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The Details of the Settlement S&S, HarperCollins and Hachette Struck With DoJ
The DoJ has filed a proposed settlement with Hachette, S&S and HarperCollins that will resolve the charges made in the anti-trust lawsuit about colluding on e-book pricing with Apple. To download and view the settlement click through.
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'PW,' Aptara Team for E-book Survey
Publishers Weekly and Aptara are teaming up for the “4th Annual eBook Production Survey,” designed to document the evolving impact of digital media on traditional content publishing and production.
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Argo Navis Adds Eight Lit Agencies as Clients
The Perseus Books Group's Argo Navis distribution service, for authors who want to self-publish but have an agent, has added eight new literary agents as clients.
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CourseSmart Upgrades Cloud-based Textbook e-Reader Services
Digital textbook consortium CourseSmart has released the new CourseSmart Reader, a new browser-based e-reading software platform that offers improved functionality and overall enhanced user experience for accessing digital textbooks and course material.
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Open Road Hires Director of Children's Acquisitions
Timothy Travaglini, formerly a senior editor at Putnam Books for Young Readers, has been named director of children’s acquisitions for digital publisher Open Road.
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Graphicly Revamps Focus, Stops Digital Comics Retail
Digital comics vendor Graphicly will halt its storefront operations and cease selling digital comics and focus on its recently launched self-publishing and distribution platform.
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