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Kobo Pulse Adds Social Functions to Reading Life Platform
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.
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Open Road Adds Uris Titles
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.
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Trident Media Launches E-Book Program for its Clients
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.
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Digital Publishing: By The Numbers
76: percentage of publishers currently producing e-books...
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More Readers, Sales for E-books
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.
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F+W Debuts Digital-First Business Imprint F+W Business Now
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.
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Demibooks Releases iPad Book Creation App to App Store
Composer is an iPad-based software platform for creating children’s interactive book apps with realistic physics, animation, sounds and visual effects.
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Webcast Calls E-book Potential 'Vast'
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.
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Kindle to Be Carried by Office Depot
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.
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Open Road to Release 'Color Purple' in E-Book
Open Road Integrated Media has published three titles by Alice Walker, including the author's bestselling (and arguably most celebrated) work, The Color Purple.
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Newest Aptara Survey Charts Changes in E-book Market
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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George R.R. Martin Joins Kindle Million Club
George R.R. Martin is the newest author to join the Kindle Million Club. Martin’s most recent novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Dance with Dragons, debuted in the #2 spot on the Kindle Best Seller list and has remained in the Top 50 for more than 100 days.
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Open Letter Press's Blog Yields e-Original
A collection of entries from Open Letter Press's blog, Three Percent, which focuses on the independent house's core business, literature in translation, are now going to be available as a $2.99 e-book.
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LeVar Burton to Launch RRKidz
LeVar Burton, actor/entertainer and host and executive producer of PBS’s longtime reading show, Reading Rainbow, is launching RRKidz, a line of interactive digital titles.
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Facing Tough App Market, Sideways Looks to ePub3 Standard
Faced with poor sales and lack of publisher investment, Sideways, a multimedia developer for iOS and other mobile platforms, has reduced staff and is working to refocus its business model on developing multimedia products based on the new ePub3 standard.
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Omar Tyree Self-Pubs New Serialized E-Novel
Bestselling African American novelist Omar Tyree is experimenting with technology, self-publishing his latest novel, Corrupted, a feverish portrayal of power and ambition in the book industry, as a serialized Kindle edition e-book, releasing a chapter every week.
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Scholastic, Ruckus Media Form New Digital/Print Imprint
Children's digital developer Ruckus Media is joining with Scholastic to create the Scholastic Ruckus imprint, a joint venture that will publish a wide range of children's and teen content across all platforms.
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F+W Media Goes With Ingram's CoreSource
F+W Media has signed with Ingram's digital distribution system, CoreSource, to handle print-on-demand and digital distribution needs. F+W has 26 e-commerce sites and publishes over 600 titles annually.
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Safari Books Online Launches Mobile-Optimized Site
Safari Books Online, a joint venture between O’Reilly Media and Pearson offering digital access to an online library of technology and business content, has launched a new website optimized for touchscreen mobile devices.
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Dr. Seuss Apps Go On Sale
From August 29 through October 2, ten Dr. Seuss omBooks will be on sale each week from popular series such as The Berenstain Bears, Little Critter, Five Little Monkeys and Smithsonian Collection. Visit the Oceanhouse Media Facebook for more information.
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