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  • Adobe Teams with WoodWing to Develop for Tablets

    | 10/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Adobe has teamed with WoodWing Software, a multi-channel software and app developer, to integrate the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite into WoodWing’s Enterprise Publishing System to create a single, cross-media workflow solution for tablet devices.

  • Oxford University Press Offers its E-Book Platform to University Presses

    By Andrew Albanese | 10/03/2011 @ 12:00AM

    After Oxford University Press launched Oxford Scholarship Onlin in 2003, the press is ready to share the successful platform.

  • Perseus Partnering with Lit Agencies for E-books

    | 10/03/2011 @ 12:00AM

    With more literary agencies offering e-book publishing services to their authors, the Perseus Books Group has launched Argo Navis, a new unit that will handle digital distribution and marketing for authors who want to self-publish titles and who are represented by established agents.

  • Gaiam Releases 16 New E-books Using VookMaker

    | 10/03/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Gaiam, Inc. and Vook, announced the release of 16 new yoga eBooks published with VookMaker, the e-publishing platform. Using VookMaker, Gaiam is empowered to produce and monetize hundreds of e-books from their vast library of content.

  • Red Wheel Weiser Launches E-Line with Out-of-Print Stories

    | 09/30/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Red Wheel Weiser is doing a new series of e-book originals, featuring out-of-print stories. The publisher is planning on releasing 10 e-originals, ranging in price from $2.99 to $9.99, on October 25.

  • BookRiff Launch Set for October 6

    By Leigh Anne Williams | 09/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

    BookRiff is slated to launch October 6, with a client list that includes O'Reily Media, harvard Common Press, and Sterling Publishers.

  • Young Journal 'Asymptote' Takes Literature All Over the World

    By Gabe Habash | 09/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

    With only three issues under its belt and its fair share of challenges, Asymptote founder Lee Yew Leong remains optimistic that the literary magazine will carve a place for itself in the market.

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    Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Three New Kindle Models Starting at $79

    By Craig Morgan Teicher | 09/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

    At a packed press event in New York this morning, Amazon unveiled its long-expected tablet offering, called the Kindle Fire, as well as three new Kindle devices.

  • Bloomsbury Reader Goes Live

    | 09/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

    With all eyes on Amazon's new tablet today, a quieter launch has happened for Bloomsbury, which is setting live its new digital imprint, Bloomsbury Reader.

  • Kobo Pulse Adds Social Functions to Reading Life Platform

    By Calvin Reid | 09/27/2011 @ 12:00AM

    E-book retailer Kobo is expanding the functionality of Reading Life, the social media reading platform in the Kobo app, with Kobo Pulse, a new feature allowing readers to see and engage in a range of social activity on the page of the book they're reading.

  • Open Road Adds Uris Titles

    | 09/27/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Eight titles by Leon Uris are the latest additions to Open Road Media’s e-book list. The company began selling the e-books today, which include the author’s epic Exodus.

  • Trident Media Launches E-Book Program for its Clients

    By Calvin Reid | 09/26/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Literary agency Trident Media Group is launching Trident E-Book Operations, a full service e-book publishing program with plans to distribute Trident author e-books directly to both domestic and international e-book retailers.

  • Digital Publishing: By The Numbers

    | 09/23/2011 @ 07:00PM

    76: percentage of publishers currently producing e-books...

  • More Readers, Sales for E-books

    | 09/23/2011 @ 07:00PM

    There are almost as many e-book surveys as there are digital conferences. Two new surveys released last week provided more information, one on the impact digital readers have had on consumers' reading and book-buying habits, while a second examined the impact of digital publishing on the industry.

  • F+W Debuts Digital-First Business Imprint F+W Business Now

    | 09/23/2011 @ 12:00AM

    F+W Media's Adams Media imprint has launched F+W Media Business Now, a digital-first business imprint. Titles will run approximately 75-100 pages and be priced at $7.99.

  • Demibooks Releases iPad Book Creation App to App Store

    | 09/22/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Composer is an iPad-based software platform for creating children’s interactive book apps with realistic physics, an­imation, sounds and visual effects.

  • Webcast Calls E-book Potential 'Vast'

    | 09/21/2011 @ 12:00AM

    The latest in the Digital Book World webcast series, Ebooks' Real Impact on the Book Publishing Market: 2009-2011, provided a comprehensive overview of the last few years in digital books as well as gave predictions on the future direction of the market.

  • Kindle to Be Carried by Office Depot

    | 09/20/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Office Depot will begin selling Amazon.com's Kindle beginning September 25. The office supply chain reported its second-quarter loss widened as a decline in same-store sales hurt its revenue growth.

  • Open Road to Release 'Color Purple' in E-Book

    | 09/20/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Open Road Integrated Media has published three titles by Alice Walker, including the author's bestselling (and arguably most celebrated) work, The Color Purple.

  • Newest Aptara Survey Charts Changes in E-book Market

    By Jim Milliot | 09/20/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Aptara Corp.’s third annual e-book survey of book publishers found a rapid increase in sales and title output, especially among trade houses, but questions still need to be resolved about e-readers, formats and standards.

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