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Tracking Amazon: 'Artificial Epidemics' Hits Kindle Singles

| 02/10/2012 @ 12:00AM

Last week PW reported on digital short-form publisher Now and Then Reader, and this week the Kindle Singles charts has its first title from the company.
Penguin Severs Ties with OverDrive

By Calvin Reid | 02/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

Penguin is terminating its contract with OverDrive, the library digital vendor, and starting February 10 will cease to offer any of its e-books or audiobooks to libraries.
E-textbooks on the Cusp?

| 02/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

BISG’s Making Information Pay for Higher Ed Publishing showed that textbooks have much in common with other sectors in publishing when it comes to digital: the tools and technology are there, publishers just have to figure it out and harness it.
Six Lit Agencies Sign with Perseus' Argo Navis

| 02/08/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Perseus Books Group has added six more literary agencies to its Argo Navis Author Services program.
Ravenous Romance Expands Into Thrillers

| 02/07/2012 @ 12:00AM

Ravenous Romance, the e-book erotic fiction publisher owned by Literary Partners Group, has made the jump to thrillers with the launch of Ravenous Shadows, with John Skipp on board as editorial director.
Wiesel's 'Night' Gets E-book

| 02/06/2012 @ 12:00AM

This month Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Night by Elie Wiesel as an e-book, the first time the title will be available digitally.
Tracking Amazon: McBain's 87th Precinct Gets Windowed

| 02/03/2012 @ 12:00AM

Ed McBain's novels won't be published by Thomas & Mercer until later this month, but they're already available--for free--on the Kindle for Prime subscribers.
Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition

By Peter Brantley | 02/03/2012 @ 12:00AM

There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace, but organizations are rallying to devise new solutions.
Fair Trade: Random House Will Raise Library E-book Prices, But Commits to E-Book Lending

Andrew Albanese | 02/02/2012 @ 12:00AM

At a meeting with ALA leaders this week, Random House officials said the company will raise the price of e-books to libraries, but that it will continue to make its digital titles available to lend.
Deval Patrick Signs Digital Exclusive With Hyperion

| 02/02/2012 @ 12:00AM

Hyperion has signed Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to a two-book deal, with the first title set to appear exclusively in digital.
Graphicly Debuts New Digital Distribution Platform

By Calvin Reid | 02/01/2012 @ 12:00AM

Graphicly, a digital comics vendor and marketplace, is launching an automated digital distribution platform for publishers and self-publishers.
Tracking Amazon: The Kindle Daily Deal Effect

| 02/01/2012 @ 12:00AM

We've profiled the significant benefit of being featured in the Kindle Daily Deal before, and January 31st's deal for The Best American Noir of the Century was no different.
Tracking Amazon: 'My Seinfeld Year' Continues Reign

| 01/31/2012 @ 12:00AM

The top of the Kindle Singles chart has looked the same since late last week, when "My Seinfeld Year" by Fred Stoller took over the number one spot.
BAM Picks CoverCake to Track Social Media Book Data

By Calvin Reid | 01/31/2012 @ 12:00AM

Books-A-Million is teaming up with CoverCake, a startup venture focused on title discovery and analytics that can track book trends and overall online interest in titles and publishers across multiple social media platforms.
Random House and Sesame Workshop Step into Digital Reading

By Karen Raugust | 01/26/2012 @ 10:00AM

Random House Children’s Books and Sesame Workshop are expanding their four-decade-plus licensing relationship, adding e-books and apps to their extensive Sesame Street print publishing program.
Tracking Amazon: Low Prices Dominate Kindle Romance Chart

| 01/26/2012 @ 12:00AM

The top of the Kindle romance bestseller list favors the cheap. The top five titles are all $1.99 or less, with three of the five priced at $0.99.
Library Ideas Launches E-book Service for Libraries

| 01/26/2012 @ 12:00AM

Library Ideas, a Fairfax, Vir. media company delivering digital services to libraries, has launched Freading, an e-book program that allows libraries to pay for e-books on a per download basis.
Digital Book World Panelists Gauge the Children's E-book Market

By Gabe Habash | 01/25/2012 @ 10:00AM

The potential of children's e-books was the subject of Digital Book World panel on Tuesday, which combined the findings of the recently released study, called "Understanding the Children's Book Consumer in the Digital Age," on the habits and trends of e-book reading in children and a Q&A with industry experts.
Tracking Amazon: Kindle Daily Deal's Unbeatable Blessing

| 01/25/2012 @ 12:00AM

As of January 25, the day after A Heart of Freedom was featured on the Kindle Daily Deal, Ling's book is still at number four on the chart.
Meredith Buys Allrecipes.com

| 01/24/2012 @ 12:00AM

Meredith Corp. has agreed to acquire Allrecipes.com from Reader’s Digest in a deal valued at $175 million. Allrecipes.com currently has a database of over 500,000 recipes and its mobile apps have been downloaded by over 11 million consumers. The deal is expected to close later this quarter.

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