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$1 Million to a Literary Site Called Figment – And It's Not Imaginary
Sixth-grader Fiona Plunkett is the published author of seven books. Really. But the Malibu, Calif., resident happily notes that they are all online – on figment.com, a free share-your-writing Web site geared toward teens.
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Amazon.com Now Sells More E-books than Print Books
In an announcement that will likely generate cheers as well as fears, Amazon.com says that it now sells more Kindle e-books than print books—paperback and hardcover—combined. Since April 1, Amazon says it has sold 105 kindle books for every 100 print books, soft or hardcover, including print titles that do not have Kindle editions. The figures do not include free Kindle titles.
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Penguin Classics Debuts Amplified e-Books; Rosenthal's Blue Rider Press
To mark the 65th anniversary of Penguin Classics, Penguin plans to release “amplified” e-book editions of classic literature, beginning with John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men: Amplified, which will be published this week featuring a variety of supplementary content. In addition, David Rosenthal has announced that the name of his newly launched general interest Penguin imprint will be Blue Rider Press.
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Digital Graphic Novel on CIA's 1953 Iran Coup
In 2007, video game artist Daniel Burwen came across Steven Kinzer's Overthrow and was "blown away" by its overview of American geopolitical chicanery. The result is Operation Ajax: How the CIA Toppled Democracy in Iran, an unusual interactive digital graphic novel and app developed for the iPad.
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The Producers: Books and Video in 2011
At the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, over 100 companies showed off new models of tablet computers, sleek devices capable of a vast array of multimedia functions, the most popular of which, overwhelmingly, is video.
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McGraw-Hill Unveils Major Digital Library
McGraw-Hill has launched a platform for accessing its wide breadth of content online at www.MHeBookLibrary.com. The site will deliver content to institutions globally and contains over 1,000 titles. The publisher said the library was created to serve the growing digital demands of library patrons and give easier and quicker access to its content.
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The Week in Apps: May 13, 2011
This week, there’s an app based on children’s character Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, one from Al Gore, and one featuring six Tiger Tales stories.
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The Week in Children's Apps: May 12, 2011
This week, there’s an app based on children’s character Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, and one featuring six Tiger Tales stories.
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Kobo App Adds Twitter Functionality
Kobo has unveiled an addition to its reading app for Apple devices, Kobo Reading Life, that will enable users to share information about what they're buying and reading via Twitter. Heretofore the app has only allowed users to share these details on Facebook. The upgrade will let fans post book covers, quotes, passages, and other content to Twitter from the books they are reading on the app.
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Goodreads Launches Book Club
Literary social networking site Goodreads has started a book club, selecting as its first title Jennifer Egan's recent Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit From the Goon Squad. The Web site, which claims to be one of the biggest online reading communities--it just passed the 5 million mark for registered users--said its book club will be the first global book club in the world.
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Ruckus Media's Rick Richter Named to INscribe Digital's Advisory Board
Rick Richter, founder of new media kids' apps developer Ruckus Media and former president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, has been named to the advisory board of INscribe Digital, a new digital distributor of e-books and provider of content conversion services.
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Kids Can and Open Road to Publish Franklin the Turtle E-Books
Canadian children’s publisher Kids Can Press and Open Road Integrated Media will digitally publish 25 classic Franklin the Turtle titles including the 25th anniversary edition of Franklin in the Dark. The e-books will go on sale May 17.
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Ed Victor Starts Publishing Arm
England-based literary agency Ed Victor Ltd. has launched an e-book and print-on-demand publishing unit called Bedford Square Books. The imprint is launching with a blend of backlist titles--both fiction and nonfiction--by the agency's clients, going live with six books in September 2011. A rep from Ed Victor Ltd. confirmed that titles from Bedford Square Books will only be available in the U.K., but is in talks with Open Road Media to distribute its titles in the U.S.
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Sterling Releases Royal Wedding E-Book for Nook
No sooner have all the champagne flutes from the royal wedding been washed, and Sterling is releasing an e-book based on the event: William & Catherine: Their Romance and Royal Wedding in Photographs. The publisher, which is a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, is making the $7.99 e-book available exclusively on B&N’s NookColor for two weeks.
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The Week in Apps: May 6, 2011
This week, there’s an app spun off of the Five Little Monkeys tale, a new Dr. Seuss app, and an app for one of Aesop’s fables.
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The Week in Children's Apps: May 5, 2011
This week, there's an app spun off of the Five Little Monkeys tale, a new Dr. Seuss app, and an app for one of Aesop’s fables.
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RH Enters Bin Laden Book Craze With E-Original
With a number of publishers announcing plans to rush books about Osama Bin Laden to the market in the wake of the Al Qaeda leader's death, Random House entered the fray with the news that it is crashing an e-book original about Bin Laden scheduled to be available for download on Monday.
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Skott Klebe Joins PW and DBW Google Book Settlement Webcast
We have added a new panelist to our previously announced WEBcast with Digital Book World on the Google Book Settlement rejection, Skott Klebe, chief architect at Copyright Clearance Center. Klebe joins panelists Pamela Samuelson, professor at the Berkeley Law School & School of Information; and James Grimmelmann, associate professor of law at New York Law School. The panel will be moderated by PW features editor Andrew Albanese.
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Barnes & Noble to Introduce New e-Reader on May 24
Rumors began flying on Wednesday that Barnes & Noble plans to introduce a new e-reading device on May 24. The source of the speculations was an SEC filing in which, to comply with FD fair disclosure rules, B&N included a line indicating that it would announce an unspecified e-reader device on that date.
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Amazon Removes Some Explicit Yaoi Manga from Kindle Store
Amazon has removed several yaoi manga from its Kindle Store and refused to allow others to be offered for the Kindle, although the bookseller continues to sell the same manga in print and to offer more explicit erotic books in both formats. Yaoi manga features love stories between two males and can range from softly romantic to sexually explicit.
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