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Tracking Amazon: Whitney Houston E-books Pop Up
In the days following Whitney Houston's death, a number of Kindle e-books are showing up on Amazon, many of which are foreign language titles.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle's New #1
Brian Freemantle's thriller Ice Age has moved to the top of the Amazon Kindle charts one day after having been featured in the Kindle Daily Deal. The book, which is a digital-only title from Open Road, was published in September 2011.
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TOC 2012: Safari Books’ Offers Content Access Over Ownership
At TOC’s closing afternoon keynotes, Safari Books CEO Andrew Savikas provided an overview of the trend toward “usage-based” streaming content, a model that is growing in popularity in a variety of media and services.
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TOC 2012: How Copyright Got a Bad Name
William Patry, senior copyright council for Google, feels that copyright is a good thing, it just has a bad name because, like other laws that fall out of favor, it’s being asked to do something it shouldn’t.
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Inkling Debuts Multimedia Publishing Platform at TOC
Inkling has announced the debut of Inkling Habitat, an open authoring tool that enables publishers to create media-rich interactive content for the iPad and Web.
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Children's Book's Earnings Go Toward Building Preschools
uTales, the community-based children's app platform that PW profiled last November, has released their newest title, The Friendship Alphabet.
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Tracking Amazon: A Record Day for Shannon McKenna
Romance writer Shannon McKenna is dominating the Kindle bestseller charts one day after four of her novels were included in the Kindle Daily Deal for $0.99 each.
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Aptara Acquired by iEnergizer
The digital services provider Aptara has been acquired by iEnergizer, an international business process outsourcing company that has offices around the world.
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Skyreader, San Diego Zoo Bring Out New Wiggens Adventures
App developer Skyreader has signed an agreement with the San Diego Zoo that will bring three new e-book adventures starring Wiggens, the precocious Chocolate Labrador puppy, to the App Store beginning spring 2012.
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Pear Jam Books Teams with MyLi.com
New Zealand-based publishing startup Pear Jam Books is teaming with MyLi.com, a U.K.-based online startup e-book and reading site for school children, to release its list of titles to young readers in Britain.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Artificial Epidemics' Hits Kindle Singles
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.
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Penguin Severs Ties with OverDrive
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.
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E-textbooks on the Cusp?
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.
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Six Lit Agencies Sign with Perseus' Argo Navis
The Perseus Books Group has added six more literary agencies to its Argo Navis Author Services program.
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Ravenous Romance Expands Into Thrillers
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.
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Wiesel's 'Night' Gets E-book
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.
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Tracking Amazon: McBain's 87th Precinct Gets Windowed
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.
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Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition
There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace, but organizations are rallying to devise new solutions.
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Fair Trade: Random House Will Raise Library E-book Prices, But Commits to E-Book Lending
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.
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