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Amazon Launches Lending Library Without the Big Six
As rumored for months, Amazon is getting into the digital book lending business, announcing the launch of Kindle Owners Lending Library for Amazon Prime members. But there’s a hitch; none of the big six publishers are involved in the program.
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Google eBookstore Opens in Canada
The Google eBookstore has launched in Canada, selling books from the large publishing multinational houses and some Canadian independent houses. More to come, says Google.
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Bowker Back Online After Nor'easter Causes Outage
After the storm that hit parts of the East Coast on Saturday left ISBN provider Bowker without power, the company is reporting that its systems are back online.
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Graphicly Offers Comics via Facebook, Apple’s Newsstand and More
Digital comics distributor and software vendor Graphicly has launched a Facebook app offering Facebook users access to a complete list of its comics; released a widget offering access via blogs and websites and debuted on Apple’s Newsstand, a new iOS5 service that allows subscriptions and automatic downloads for monthly comics and other periodicals.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead 10.28.11
The news section features a look at a Library Journal study on the role of libraries and e-books and books. The reviews section again has an international flavor. In nonfiction, there is an interview with Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing, an exposé about bar dancers in Mumbai. There's also a mystery Q&A with Colin Cotterill, author of Slash and Burn, the eighth and final of his Laotian mysteries.
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Hyperink: Publishing Startup Offers Short Focused Nonfiction e-Books
Hyperink, a San Francisco-based publishing startup focused on producing short nonfiction e-books on targeted topics, is launching a broader beta version of their publishing platform today.
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U.K. Publishers Ink Retail Deal with Social Reading Site
Anobii, a book and reading social networking venture that allows readers to post their books online as well as rate and post reviews, has signed retail partnerships with ten of the U.K.’s biggest publishers.
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Penzler Brings Mysterious Press Online
Otto Penzler, the well-known bookseller at the Mysterious Bookshop and former publisher of the mystery line Mysterious Press, has launched a digital publishing venture in MysteriousPress.com.
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Viz Media To Launch SuBLime, Digital/Print Yaoi Line in December
Viz Media is partnering with Japanese anime/manga retailer Animate and Yaoi publisher Libre Publishing, to launch SuBLime, a new manga graphic novel line specializing in Yaoi or Boys Love, that will release titles in digital and print formats beginning in December.
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Greenleaf Switches to Digital Catalogs with Edelweiss
Greenleaf Book Group is the latest publisher to sign on with Above the Treeline’s Edelweiss digital catalog service to replace print catalogs for its Greenleaf Book Group Press and Emerald Book Company lines. The company’s most recent catalogs will be available in both print and Edelweiss digital formats, with next season’s catalogs available exclusively through Edelweiss.
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University of California Press in E-Book Partnership with Oxford
The University of California Press is partnering with Oxford University Press to launch California Scholarship Online/CALSO on OUP’s recently-launched University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, October 21
Competition heats up in the e-reader/tablet market as Kobo introduces the determinedly "open" Vox reader, built on the Android 2.3 operating system.
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This Week in Children's Apps: October 20, 2011
This week in children's apps features two spooky tales. Ghost House follows Charlie O'Dell, a boy who gets on his favorite TV show, only to find out that he doesn't know what his show is really like. Tacky Goes to Camp is about Tacky and his penguin friends having fun at camp, until something pays them a visit in the night.
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Manga at NYCC 2011: Viz, Yen Press, Kodansha, Vertical and 'Homestuck'
Although Viz Media stole the spotlight at New York Comic Con with news of "near-simultaneous" Japan/U.S. publishing of its new digital weekly, Yen Press made an announcement of its own about a "real simultaneous" dual language publication.
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Open Road Launches Iconic Ebooks Imprint with 'Fear of Flying'
Fear of Flying will be the first title in Open Road's new Iconic Ebooks imprint. The e-book, with a new cover and an illustrated biography featuring never-before-seen photos, goes on sale on October 18.
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Brad Steiger Starts Scary E-book Compilation Series
Brad Steiger, author of thousands of books and articles on the paranormal, will gather his favorite stories in a new compilation, Real Nightmares: True and Truly Scary Unexplained Phenomena, published by Visible Ink Press for $1.99.
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Kodansha Debuts Manga iPad App at New York Comic Con
In the latest digital news to come out of New York Comic Con, Kodansha USA Publishing, in conjunction with its distributor Random House Publisher Services, announced plans to release a Kodansha Comics iPad app featuring a selection of the publisher’s manga backlist.
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PW Select Fall 2011: E-Book Master Class: PW Talks with Joshua Tallent
If self-publishing is a major part of the future of the publishing business, then its most uncharted region, and the frontier of greatest possibility, is digital self-publishing, where authors can make their own names and sell infinite numbers of books with the help of a handful of increasingly well-established platforms and standards—Amazon, Apple, EPub among them.
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Viz Media to Launch Near-Simultaneous Japan/U.S. Digital Manga Weekly
In a move that will brings its manga program very close to simultaneous English and Japanese publication, Viz Media plans to launch Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, a weekly digital serialized manga anthology.
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Jackson Fish Market Books Offers Free Downloads
Two years after launching the online book service A Story Before Bed, which synchronizes children's books with a video recording capability that allows family members to document and preserve the act of reading books together, Seattle-based Jackson Fish Market Books has announced that its original digital children's books are now available for free downloads.
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