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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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'Vanity Fair' Publishes Murdoch E-book
Vanity Fair has released its second e-book, Rupert Murdoch, The Master Mogul of Fleet Street, composed of 20 stories from its pages, available for Kindle and Nook for $3.99.
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This Week in Children's Apps: July 28, 2011
This week in children's apps features an adventure with a penguin family, as the parents raise the baby penguin until he is old enough to learn to swim; Roxie's Doors takes players on an interactive search with 3D lift the flap features and over 90 hidden objects; Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do is an interactive storybook following the monkeys' adventures in preparation for their grandmother's visit by cleaning and getting food ready.
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TouchyBooks Raises the Bar for Digital Children's Publishing
In less than one year, the TouchyBooks children's bookstore app has turned into a giant in the digital children’s publishing world, racking up over 700,000 downloads or a catalog of 70 titles, composed of both new and classic stories.
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O'Reilly Using "Agile" Model to Publish 'Every Book is a Startup'
Literally taking a page out of its own books, O’Reilly Media is using the agile development model to publish Todd Sattersten’s Every Book is a Startup in which the author argues that most books should be developed using the same principles as tech startups.
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Media Services Group Embeds Informer
MSG has reached a partnership with Entrinsik to offer its clients Informer, a reporting system that allows companies that use the Élan Framework to have a single point of access to reports in order to query any data source, regardless of where it is stored, in real time.
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E-books Rapidly Increasing in Reading Groups
Reading group members nationwide are increasingly choosing e-books and e-readers over traditional print books, according to a survey by Reading Group Choices (RGC).
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Japanese Publishers Launch Jmanga.com Manga Portal at Comic-Con
Six of Japan’s most prominent manga publishers were on hand at the San Diego Comic-con International to announce the launch of Jmanga.com, an online portal offering access to thousands of manga titles unseen in North America, beginning in August for the U.S. market.
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Rowling's Pottermore Inks Deal with Google
Harry Potter’s next adventure will be in the cloud. Google officials and author J.K. Rowling announced today that when Rowling's new Web site Pottermore.com goes live in October, U.S. visitors will be able to store their Harry Potter e-books in their Google Books libraries.
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Highlighter Gives Publishers Extensive Analytics of Their Content
Highlighter is a free plugin that allows users to highlight or annotate text from a site and then share it with friends on Facebook and Twitter, the idea being to give every Highligher-equipped blog or website a measure of social media interactivity.
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