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Twitter and Publishing: How the Industry is Faring
Here is a listing of over 75 imprints and their Twitter feeds. The list is meant to be a table of publishers of varying sizes and in a full range of categories.
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This Week in Children's Apps: June 30, 2011
This week in children's apps features an opera-loving hippo named Hildegard in a game that lets players help her get her voice back through games and activities. Also this week is an app based on the hit children's book The Heart and the Bottle, formerly a bestselling app in the U.K., and now featuring the voice of Helena Bonham Carter in the U.S. version.
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Hachette Teams with Essential Accessibility to Help Disabled Readers
The Hachette Book Group is teaming with Essential Accessibility, a turn-key online tool developed to help the disabled community easily access online content. Essential Accessibility software gives disabled people access to a variety of special keyboard shortcuts, hands-free activation and speech recognition functionality.
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DGLM Elaborates on Plan to Rep Self-Published Authors
After announcing on its blog yesterday that it would be working its clients through the digital self-publishing process, literary agency Dystel & Goderich has gotten publishing insiders buzzing.
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Open Road to Publish Bedford Square in North America
After agency Ed Victor Ltd. announced it was going to start a publishing arm called Bedford Square Books, the British company has made it official that Open Road Integrated Media will be publishing its titles digitally in North America.
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Pan Macmillan to Launch Digital-Only Imprint, Macmillan Compass
U.K. publishing house Pan Macmillan announced plans to launch Macmillan Compass, a new digital only publishing imprint. While the new imprint will release e-books for all formats and distribution will be through Pan Macmillan’s established channels, it has not been determined as yet if the e-titles will be available for sale in the U.S.
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Pottermore: Interesting But Not a Game Changer
Many people who work in publishing think that as interesting as Pottermore is, the endeavor says less about the future of the book business than it does about the singular status of a very wealthy author who has the inclination and means to build her own brand.
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B&T Launches Axis 360 Library Media Platform at ALA
In New Orleans for the annual American Library Association Conference, Baker and Taylor announced plans to roll out its Axis 360 digital media circulation and management platform, a new procurement system that allows librarian to order both physical and digital content--including Blio, Ray Kurzweil's multimedia e-reading software--from a single source.
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This Week in Apps: June 24, 2011
This week in apps offers two well-known children's books: Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! gets a digital version, complete with the ability for the player to follow the author through his legendary story; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star comes to tablets with 3D images that can be turned and tilted, with a narration of the classic poem in more than five languages.
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This Week in Children's Apps: June 23, 2011
This week in apps offers two well-known children's books: Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! gets a digital version, complete with the ability for the player to follow the author through his legendary story; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star comes to tablets with 3D images that can be turned and tilted, with a narration of the classic poem in more than five languages.
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Book Summit in Toronto Offers App Advice
Book Summit 2011, held in Toronto on June 17, focused the attention of 200 or so industry professionals on digital publishing and extensions of books, particularly the potential and pitfalls of apps.
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WETA Debuts InReads, New Online Reading Community
WETA, Washington D.C.’s public television affiliate, is launching InReads, a new online community devoted to highlighting the ways that reading is changing in the digital era and exploring the connections between books, culture and technology.
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E-book Distribution Webcast Gives Advice For Small Publishers
On Tuesday, June 21, the latest in the Digital Book World/Publishers Weekly Webcast series featured a discussion about e-book distribution for small publishers. Leading off the program, Harvard Common Press associate publisher Adam Salomone pointed to things to consider when indie houses are looking for a conversion partner.
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Kerouac Heads To the iPad
Who says old books can't be made new again? Certainly not Penguin Classics, which is focused on revitalizing literature that has been available in print for decades and sometimes even centuries. For the imprint's first experimentation with apps, it has created an amplified edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which features the text of the 1957 edition of the novel, along with photos, interactive maps, and a detailed history of the author's contemporaries, who he famously dubbed "the beats."
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Fiction Rules E-Books
Fiction is the leading sales driver of e-books, and just how dominant that segment has been is clearly seen in a new market study just released by Bowker. According to "2010–2011 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics & Buying Behaviors Annual Review," fiction accounted for 61% of unit sales in 2010 and 51% of revenue.
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This Week in Apps: June 17, 2011
This week in apps offers cooking instruction, animal games, money education, a Disney adventure, and interactive dance.
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New E-Book Company Takes Flight in Minnesota
FlyingWord, a Minnesota company that began in 2010, has announced it has developed an interactive e-book platform designed to enhance the experience of reading for 21st-century tween, teen, and adult readers.
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This Week in Children's Apps: June 16, 2011
This week in apps offers animal games, money education, a Disney adventure, interactive dance, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Unbridled E-book Sale a Great Success
Unbridled Books' "25 for 25" e-book sale, in which 25 titles were offered for a 25 cents each, has been deemed an "unparalleled success," according to the American Booksellers Association.
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