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Amazon's Kindles See Banner Black Friday
Customers purchased four times as many Kindle devices on Black Friday this year versus last year, making it the most successful Black Friday for the devices.
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Finding Your Way Through the Digital Maze: E-Solutions 2011
Book publishers know that their business is changing, and quickly. Whether it’s online publishing through the Web, downloadable e-books, or app development, digital content and the technology that supports it is the newest path to sales growth and customer satisfaction. In today’s book content marketplace, publishers have to master an ever-growing number of exotic technologies, even while these same technologies are being continuously updated, morphing into new versions of themselves that are more efficient and in constant need of sophisticated management and technical support.
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Penguin Restores 'Older' Titles to OverDrive
Late Wednesday morning, Penguin issued a statement in which it said that it is, at least temporaily, making its "older titles" available once again through OverDrive for distribution to libraries, though new titles will still not be available. The action came after talks between Amazon and Penguin in which Amazon said it had not been consulted by OverDrive about the terms of Penguin's agreement with OverDrive.
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No Change, But Random House Says It Is “Actively Reviewing” Library E-book Policy
After Penguin announced this week that it was pulling its frontlist e-book titles from libraries and disabling all Kindle library lends, Random House remains the only “Big Six” publisher to embrace library sales of e-book editions.
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Amazon Launches Branded DC Comics Storefront
DC Comics is teaming with Amazon.com to launch a branded store on the online retailer that will feature print and digital editions of DC Comics graphic novels.
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Kane Miller, Demibooks Team Up for New Imprint
Technology company Demibooks has partnered with publisher Kane Miller to form a new children's book imprint called InkPad Press.
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Citing "Security Concerns" Penguin Pulls New Titles from OverDrive
Penguin officials have confirmed that its latest titles will not be available for library lending in e-book editions via OverDrive.
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Disney Issues Its First E-Book Original Novel
"On November 18th, get sucked in," urges the book trailer for Disney-Hyperion's debut e-book original novel, Confessions of a High School Vampire: Birth by the pseudonymous Siona McCabre.
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Samuel French Offers ePlays
Samuel French is making its plays and musicals available as digital downloads. Most will be priced at $8.99.
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Top Shelf Debuts Two Comics Apps; Launches on Google eBooks, Graphicly
Independent comics publisher Top Shelf Productions is expanding its digital program with the release of two dedicated apps--the Top Shelf Productions App, with its full lineup of titles, and the Top Shelf Kids Club App, offering a selection of Kids’ and all-ages comics.
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'All Creatures Great and Small' Gets Iconic Ebook Status at Open Road
Open Road has announced the e-book publication of five titles by bestselling author Alfred Wight, who wrote under the pen name of James Herriot. The titles will be released today, November 15.
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Seven More Clues, from The 39 Clues
Over the holidays, Scholastic will launch its first original e-book series based on the 39 Clues franchise with The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire.
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uTales Makes the Case for a Community-Based App Space
uTales, the online world of picture books for children, does things a little differently. Instead of getting titles into the app sphere on an app-by-app basis, Swedish-based uTales runs its operations under an umbrella of community.
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Could Amazon’s Lending Library End in Court?
As more information has come to light about the Lending Library program Amazon launched last week, the tenor in the industry has shifted from one of puzzlement to anger.
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Four Colour Print Group Launches MyTabletBooks
In another example of a printer creating a new venture in response to the growth of digital books, Louisville-based Four Colour Print Group has formed MyTabletBooks.com. The new division will convert illustrated print books into e-books which can be sold from the MyTabletBooks.com site.
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Hachette Gets Gold Certification From BISG
Hachette has won the Book Industry Study Group's gold certification, an honor that the organization gives out after its annual review of metadata, through its Product Data Certification Program. The award honors companies which have the most complete metadata associated with their titles.
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Books24x7: Professional Books Go Digital
Given e-books’ recent growth in the trade, professional books are clearly ahead of the digital curve. Books24x7 was one of the earliest companies in the professional e-book space, licensing and repackaging e-books for IT professionals on a subscription basis for nearly two decades. A subsidiary of SkillSoft since 2001, Books24x7 was founded in 1994 in Norwood, Mass., specifically “to offer powerful, easy-to-use electronic publishing products that take advantage of the familiar book metaphor,” according to an early mission statement. Over the intervening years, as e-books and ways of staying connected have evolved, so has the company.
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Consortium Launches Weekly Twitter Chat
Consortium Sales & Distribution, which distributes titles from more than 100 companies, has launched a weekly 30-minute Twitter Chat hosted by its three-member marketing department, in which participants can discuss issues of particular interest to independent publishers.
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Vook White Paper Tackles Common E-Book Formatting Errors
Vook has outlined 5 common e-book formatting errors.
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