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The Latest E-Book Buying Trends
Dedicated e-readers as well as multifunctional devices continued to gain in popularity this spring as the favored way to read e-books, while computers continued to lose ground, according to BISG's "Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading."
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Holistic Publishing 1O1: New in Textbooks 2011
Digital technology is transforming the world of textbook publishing much as it is changing every other aspect of the book world. Digitization is bringing down the cost of textbook content, transforming static print works into interactive learning experiences and allowing publishers to create and customize content, be it for an individual, a specific class, or an entire university.
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'Julie of the Wolves' Released as Open Road E-book
Open Road Integrated Media has announced plans to release Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves as an e-book, along with 11 more of the author's titles, which were originally published between 1948 and 1985.
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Donnelley Buys LibreDigital
As book printers look to move beyond just manufacturing print products, R.R. Donelley has acquired LibreDigital, the e-book distributor and provider of other digital services.
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DeVry Picks VitalSource
DeVry University will use Ingram’s VitalSource to provide e-textbook management and distribution. VitalSource will be integrated into DeVry’s learning management system, eCollege, for its global community. Using the platform, students and faculty will be able to access content via download, online or mobile options including the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices.
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Does Sony Have Exclusive Deal to Sell Harry Potter E-books?
According to a report in the U.K.’s The Register, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling plans to release all seven Harry Potter novels as e-books exclusively on Sony e-reader devices for a limited time beginning in November.
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Crown Releasing Rick Perry E-Chapter, Teasing Fall Release
Rick Perry, the Texas governor who made his presidential bid official on Saturday, is the focus of a new e-original from Crown called Rick Perry and His Eggheads: Inside the Brainiest Political Operation in America.
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HC Partners On World Trade Center E-book With Fox News
HarperCollins is releasing an e-original about the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site with FOX News. The enhanced e-book, Rise of Freedom: The New World Trade Center, is scheduled for August 23 and will feature videos and pictures of the construction work that has gone on at Ground Zero over the past decade.
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Turnit.com Looks to Attract Book Publishers
Evolusent, a Toronto-based company focused on technology, content and e-commerce services, has launched Turnit.com, an online site initially focused on magazine content that is looking to expand its platform to book publishers.
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New Audiobook App Pinpoints Your Location on Brooklyn Bridge
To coincide with the launch of "The Great Bridge Tour" for David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Broadcastr and Simon & Schuster are releasing new geo-fencing technology, which allows users to access area-specific audio clips based on where they are on the Brooklyn Bridge using an app.
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Children's App Developer iStoryTime Gets $2 Million Investment
Mobile children's book app developer iStoryTime has received a $2 million Series A investment, which will allow them to expand their distribution and their digital books library, which currently has 100 titles in 80 countries.
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Amazon Launches The Kindle Cloud Reader
Amazon.com has launched the Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML5 reader that will allow consumers to buy and read Amazon titles through the web browsers found on almost any PC or mobile device.
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Adoption of The Agency Model Draws Class Action Lawsuit
Questions about the legality of the agency model have cropped up in different places since the business model was first introduced into the e-book market and Tuesday a Seattle-based law firm filed a class action suit charging five publishers and Apple with conspiring to fix e-book prices.
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Digital Textbooks Changing the Traditional Model With Iterations
The panelists for the digital textbook webcast all agreed that the main difference with digital is that publishing has become an ongoing venture with continuous opportunities for improvement, thanks to the two-way communication with readers.
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Kno Rolls Out New Features for Textbook App
Education tech company Kno rolls out its new textbook app today, featuring enhanced, digital editions of over 100,000 popular textbook titles from pretty much all the major publishers at 30% to 50% off regular prices.
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RH's Living Language to Offer Multi-Platform Instruction Suite
Random House's Living Language imprint has launched a program called Platinum that provides foreign language instruction through a variety of formats and outlets, including print titles, audio CDs, downloads, apps, online courses and digital tutors. The program, at $179, will offer instruction in a variety of langauges, starting with French, Spanish, Italian and German, with others, including Chinese and Arabic, to follow.
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Amber Books, K-tel Ink E-book Licensing Deal
Amber Communications Group has signed an exclusive licensing deal with K-tel International to launch seven music biography titles from Amber’s Colossus Books imprint as e-books on iTunes.
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Facebook Acquires Digital Book Publisher Push Pop Press
Facebook has announced its acquisition of Push Pop Press, a digital book maker with a focus on the iPad and iPhone. Both parties have denied that Facebook is moving into e-book publishing.
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E-book Pricing 101
E-book pricing continues to be a tricky issue for publishers. To help provide some answers, Vook has written a white paper on the key factors creators and sellers need to consider when pricing digital content.
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TouchPress: Theodore Gray Tests His Mettle in the App World
Tell anyone familiar with book apps that there isn't a market for such content, or that there haven't been any successful book apps to date, and you will hear two words: the Elements. The app, based on Theodore Gray's bestselling and visually driven science book of the same name, has been purchased well over 100,000 times and is consistently cited as the gold standard in the genre.
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