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Nat Geographic Launches E-book Shorts Series
On March 20, National Geographic Books will release the first in a line of e-book shorts, Titanic: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Greatest Shipwreck by Mike Sweeney for $4.99.
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Tracking Amazon: Fiction Dominates Kindle
On the morning of March 15, the Kindle top 100 posted 83 fiction titles.
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Turow Slams Prospect of DoJ Antitrust Suit
Authors Guild president Scott Turow has posted a letter to members calling the prospect of an antitrust lawsuit against five publishers and Apple, “grim news for everyone who cherishes a rich literary culture.”
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Annick Partners with Open Road for E-books
In a new partnership, Open Road Digital Media and Annick Press will release e-book versions of 34 of the Toronto-based publisher’s most successful titles: 20 Robert Munsch books, all 10 volumes of Roslyn Schwartz’s Mole Sisters series, plus four additional picture books.
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Tracking Amazon: The Google and Amazon Price War
For the second straight day, Google Play has put an e-book on sale for $0.25 and hours later Amazon has matched that price.
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Judy Blume Gets E-books from Random House
Random House Children’s Books will publish 13 of popular author Judy Blume’s classic books for young readers as e-books, beginning March 21. The titles will include Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Deenie, and Blubber.
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Tracking Amazon: Google Envy over 'Extremely Loud'?
For the launch of Google Play's platform yesterday, the Google e-book of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was put on sale for $0.25. Several hours later, the book was reduced to the same price on Amazon as a Kindle e-book. As a result, Jonathan Safran Foer's novel has moved up to #4 (from #46) on the Kindle bestseller list.
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Scholastic Launches Storia, a New Digital Platform
After more than 18 months of development, Scholastic has begun beta tests for Storia, its proprietary e-book platform for selling and distributing its trade titles as well as digital editions of titles from other children’s houses. The beta test features 1,300 titles with the vast majority published by Scholastic
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ALA Asks Random to Scale Back Price Hikes
The American Library Association (ALA) has issued a statement urging Random House to reconsider its recent price hike on e-books for the library market.
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Baker & Taylor in Deal with Smashwords
Baker & Taylor has signed an agreement with Smashwords that will enable the e-book distributor to offer its titles through B&T’s Blio application.
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OverDrive Acquires Australian E-book Company
OverDrive has acquired the Australian company Booki.sh, which sells and distributes e-books through its cloud-based distribution platform.
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Figment Acquires Inkpop from HarperCollins
Figment, the online writing community for teens and young adults, has purchased Inkpop, a similar HarperCollins initiative.
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Open Road Publishes Its First YA E-riginal
What started as the ghost of an idea for Andrea J. Buchanan, author of the bestselling Daring Book for Girls, has blossomed into an enhanced e-book original from Open Road Integrated Media, the company’s first for teens.
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BISG Report: Book Purchases Up, But Not from Bookstores
Consumers who use e-books are increasing their purchase of books—both print and e-book formats—online and especially through in-app purchasing, and decreasing their use of brick-and-mortar stores, according to the first installment of Volume Three of the Book Industry Study Group's “Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading” survey.
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Tracking Amazon: Lending Library Title Count Tops 100,000
Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library has passed the 100,000 title mark, growing to over 20 times its original size since launching in November 2011.
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Open Road Signs with IPS, Lightning Source
Open Road Integrated Media has signed with Ingram Publisher Services and Lightning Source to distribute print versions of all its E-riginals titles and a select group of other titles.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Skews Toward Fiction
The top 25 bestselling Kindle titles on the afternoon of February 27 included only two nonfiction titles.
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Drag; Drop; Read: Apple's New iBooks Author Format
In early January, Apple released iBooks Author, a groundbreaking drag-and-drop e-book authoring environment that promises to democratize the production of complex, structured books, notably including textbooks. But iBooks Author could also presage something else: the eclipse of open e-book standards.
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Pottermore Books to Be Distributed by OverDrive
OverDrive will manage worldwide hosting and digital fulfillment for libraries for the Harry Potter e-books on Pottermore.
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Fourth Story Media's Lisa Holton Joins Callaway Digital Arts
Callaway Digital Arts announced that Lisa Holton, founder of children’s digital media producer Fourth Story Media and former president of Scholastic trade publishing, has been named v-p of content development.
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