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Deval Patrick Signs Digital Exclusive With Hyperion
Hyperion has signed Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to a two-book deal, with the first title set to appear exclusively in digital.
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Graphicly Debuts New Digital Distribution Platform
Graphicly, a digital comics vendor and marketplace, is launching an automated digital distribution platform for publishers and self-publishers.
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Tracking Amazon: The Kindle Daily Deal Effect
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.
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Tracking Amazon: 'My Seinfeld Year' Continues Reign
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.
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BAM Picks CoverCake to Track Social Media Book Data
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.
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Random House and Sesame Workshop Step into Digital Reading
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.
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Tracking Amazon: Low Prices Dominate Kindle Romance Chart
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.
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Library Ideas Launches E-book Service for Libraries
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.
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Digital Book World Panelists Gauge the Children's E-book Market
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.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Daily Deal's Unbeatable Blessing
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.
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Meredith Buys Allrecipes.com
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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As ALA Midwinter Closes, A Crucial Moment Looms For E-Books
As the ALA Midwinter Meeting wound down yesterday, PW caught up with ALA executive director Keith Fiels for an exclusive talk about e-books, and the librarians’ upcoming meetings in New York.
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Tracking Amazon: Edgar Nominees Do Better Digitally
Amazon put 17 of this year's Edgar nominees on the main Books page and, as of the afternoon of January 23, 13 of the titles were selling better as Kindle e-books than as physical books.
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Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays
The Pew Internet and American Life Project today released a "mini-report" on the adoption of tablets and e-readers that the number of Americans owning e-reader devices jumped from 18% to 29%, meaning that nearly 1 in 3 Americans now owns a device.
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iBooks 2: Reinventing Textbooks Or Lulu on Steroids?
While the launch of Apple’s iBooks 2, its new multimedia textbook format, and iBooks Author, the free authoring tool Apple has produced to create them, may indeed “reinvent the textbook,” there are a lot of questions to be answered before it does. That doesn’t mean that Apple didn’t put on quite a show last week.
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Apple Enters the Textbook, Self-Publishing Market
Apple is launching iBooks 2, a new multimedia textbook platform and iBooks Author, a shockingly easy authoring tool to create them – indeed to create any kind of book--and publish them instantly to the iBookstore.
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Penguin Says Library Audiobook Restrictions Not New
After some outlets broke word Wednesday that Penguin had begun restricting libraries' access to digital audiobooks, a spokesperson from the publisher said that no change has actually occurred in the house's policy.
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King, Flynn Sell 1 Million E-books
Simon & Schuster has its first two authors who have topped the 1 million sales level in e-books. Both Stephen King and Vince Flynn recently became members of the 1 million e-books sold club, the publisher reported.
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OverDrive Adds Foreign Language Titles
Digital library distributor OverDrive has added more than 700,000 foreign language titles to its catalog by signing a number of new publishing clients.
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Tracking Amazon: Amazon's SOPA Take
Amazon is taking a more nuanced approach than Wikipedia and some other prominent Web sites in protesting SOPA legislation. On Amazon's front page there is a link that reads "Reasons to oppose or modify SOPA," which links to information on the legislation from netCoalition.com. In a statement, Amazon said, "As much as we dislike piracy, we strongly oppose SOPA in its current form," stating that they "oppose the passage of the SOPA bill as currently drafted."
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