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Canadian Booksellers Association Links with Google eBooks
The Canadian Booksellers Association links members with Google e-books via campus bookstore partnership.
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INscribe Digital Inks Digital Distribution Deal with L.A. Theatre Works
Digital distributor Inscribe Digital has reached an agreement with L.A. Theatre Works to distribute the nonprofit theatre group’s enhanced e-book content to an international marketplace.
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Authors Guild Files for Class Certification in Google Case
The Google Book Settlement may be dead, but the litigation lives on. On December 12, attorneys for the Authors Guild filed a motion for class certification, hitting the deadline set forth by Judge Denny Chin at a September 15th status conference on the now abandoned Settlement.
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Agency Model Class Actions Consolidated in New York Court
Five class action lawsuits alleging an e-book price fixing conspiracy over the 2010 implementation of the agency model have been consolidated and will be handled in the Southern District on December 9.
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'Scaredy Squirrel' Goes Digital
A partnership between Corus Entertainment's Kids Can Press and Open Road Integrated Media will see the publication of the first two Scaredy Squirrel books in a number of new digital formats.
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Deadline Extended in Class Action Suits Over Agency Model
With multiple class action lawsuits filed this summer against publishers over the 2010 switch to the agency model (some also including Amazon and Barnes & Noble), the matter has been referred to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL Panel) to coordinate and consolidate the cases.
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Amazon Unveils $6 Million 'Fund' to Pull Content Into Its Lending Library
Amazon has unveiled a new program, called KDP Select, designed to woo publishers and authors to participate in its Kindle store, as well as its controversial Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
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Justice Department Says It Is Looking Into E-Book Pricing
The Justic Department is following suit with the European Union, confirming that it, too, is looking into e-book pricing.
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BISG Issues Best Practices For Assigning Digital ISBNs
Looking to address the problem of confusion in the marketplace around product identification, the Book Industry Study Group is publishing a Policy Statement that outlines best practices for assigning ISBNs to digital content.
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Cambridge University Press to Preserve E-books with Portico
Portico and Cambridge University Press have announced an agreement to preserve Cambridge Books Online content with Portico.
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Overstock to Sell E-Books Through B&N Partnership
Overstock.com, the online retailer that touts selling brand name items at lower costs, has partnered with Barnes & Noble to start selling e-books.
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Skyhorse, Paperless Publishing In Pact to Release E-books and Print
Skyhorse Publishing is teaming with Paperless Publishing, an e-book publisher and conversion house, to acquire and develop short form e-books to be released simultaneously in paperback.
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Running Press Cooks Web Site Revamped
Running Press has revamped the Running Press Cooks web site at http://www.runningpresscooks.com.
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Byliner to Launch Fiction Program
Byliner, the Web site that sells original narrative nonfiction, is getting into fiction. The Web site, which launched in April, will start selling a short story by Amy Tan called "Rules for Virgins" on December 5.
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Amazon Launches Italian & Spanish Kindle
Amazon has launched Kindle stores in Italy and Spain, and has also released Italian-language and Spanish-language Kindles.
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Publishing Technology Inks China Digital Access Pact
Publishing Technology, an international publishing services and software development firm, has signed an agreement with the China National Publications Import and Export Corp. to provide digital access to CNPIEC’s content to its more than 10,000 Chinese academic and public library clients.
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S&S to Release Bradbury Classic in Digital
Simon & Schuster is publishing Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in e-book for the first time. The book was first published by S&S, in hardcover, in 1953, and the digital edition, which is now available, is coming out as part of an agreement the house struck to re-release a number of Bradbury's works.
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Smashwords Courts Literary Agents
Smashwords, the California-based company that converts and digitally distributes Word files uploaded through its interface, is offering a suite of services to literary agents.
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Hachette, 'Bloomberg Businessweek' to Collaborate on E-books
Hachette Book Group is teaming with Bloomberg Businessweek to publish e-book editions of select special projects from the magazine. This collaboration will launch with the e-book release Steve Jobs 1955-2011 by Bloomberg Businessweek.
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