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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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Amazon Launches New Spanish E-bookstore
Amazon has launched a new Kindle store dedicated to Spanish language titles. The e-tailer's eBooks Kindle en Español launched within Amazon's existing Kindle store and went live with 30,000 titles.
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Tracking Amazon: Just How Well Are Kindle Singles Selling?
Though Amazon has a Kindle Singles bestseller list, it only compares Kindle Singles against other Kindle Singles. To get a better idea of how well Kindle Singles are selling against other e-books, you'd have to look at how many Kindle Singles made the original Kindle top 100 list.
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E-book Consumers Read More Books Says Pew Report
Results show that e-book consumers are reading roughly a third more books than print-only customers, with the average reader of e-books consuming 24 books in the past 12 months, compared with an average of 15 books by print consumers.
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Waterside Literary Starts Digital Publishing Division Powered by Vook
Another literary agency is entering the digital publishing arena: Waterside Productions in San Diego has entered a partnership with Vook to create Waterfront Press and offer its authors a 75% e-book royalty.
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Kindle Owners' Lending Library Title Count Tops 100,000
Amazon said there are now over 100,000 titles available through its Kindle Owners' Lending Library and that in the month of March, 16 of the e-tailer's top 100 bestselling paid Kindle titles were exclusive's to the Kindle Store.
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Robert Darnton Promises Digital Public Library by 2013
Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton vowed the Digital Public Library of America, a nonprofit effort to digitize and offer free access to millions of books, would launch by April of 2013.
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B&T Inks Deal to Load Blio E-book Software on Azpen Tablets
Baker & Taylor and its partner K-NFB Reading Technology, the developer of the multimedia optimized e-reading software Blio, announced a deal to feature Blio on Android-based tablet devices from Azpen Innovation.
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'PW 'Talks to Ann Arbor District Library’s Josie Parker and Eli Neiburger
PW contributing editor Peter Brantley talks to Josie Parker, director of the Ann Arbor District Library, and Eli Neiburger, associate director for IT and Production about their innovative, analytical, and provocative approach to e-books and next generation library service.
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Bowker Survey Tracks Global E-book Patterns
The survey shows that adoption rates are highest in Australia, India, the U.S. and U.K. and lowest in France and Japan.
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Medallion Acquires Mobile Content Firm to Develop New e-Book Platform
Medallion Media Group has acquired Triple Threat Mobile Development, a digital consulting firm specializing in creating games and custom applications for mobile devices.
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Tracking Amazon: Amazon Fixes Temporary Buy Button Glitch
As GalleyCat reported yesterday, a glitch yesterday afternoon temporarily caused all the buy buttons for Kindle e-books to disappear.
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Pottermore Shop Opens
As of Tuesday, March 27, all seven Harry Potter novels are now available in electronic form via the Pottermore shop, the exclusive retailer for Harry Potter e-books and digital audio books.
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Tracking Amazon: 'New York Times' Nears Four Straight Years as Kindle Bestseller
The New York Times Kindle edition has now been on the Kindle top 100 bestseller list for 1,413 days--just 47 days shy of four straight years.