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Kobo Demos Social E-Reading App for Blackberry Smartphones
Kobo unveiled a new social e-reading app for BlackBerry smartphones at the BlackBerry World conference currently being held in Orlando, Fla. The app ties into BlackBerry's BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) platform, which lets developers build social networking apps for BlackBerry (the platform is still in beta).
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Pearson, DK Launch API Developer Initiative
Pearson has announced that it is joining with its DK imprint to launch the Plug & Play Platform, an API (Application Programming Interface) initiative that will give both internal and third-party programmers and app developers access to the company’s databases and other material in order to create new kinds of products. The first dataset to be used in the program will be DK’s popular Eyewitness Travel Guide content.
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Sandra Boynton Demonstrates App, Signs Books--and a Few Nooks
Monday night’s Sandra Boynton book event at the Barnes & Noble on Manhattan’s Upper East Side looked like a pretty normal book signing--normal for Boynton, the bestselling children’s book author, anyway. Toddlers and slightly older kids, some dressed in pajamas, crammed into the event space, shepherded in by college students wearing pajama pants and Boynton Moo Media t-shirts.
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FlickerLab: Combining Tech and Stories
More than ever firms like FlickerLab, an award-winning e-book, multimedia app developer, and animation studio, are serving as examples of the kind of multimedia developers finding partnerships in the book industry. FlickerLab has partnered with a wide variety of artists and media partners—from filmmaker Michael Moore to PBS Kids—and is currently working with Barnes & Noble to develop enhanced digital picture books for B&N's NookColor and the iPad.
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Rodale Invests In Enhanced E-books, Apps
There are those in publishing who think the current push into apps and enhanced e-books is premature, believing that these book add-ons—ideal for tablet PCs that allow the incorporation of dynamic images and videos—are the CD-ROM of the 21st century.
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The Week in Apps: April 29, 2011
This week we take a look at an app that shares a Chinese take on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, one that teaches kids math, and one based on a bestselling book about photography.
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The Week in Children's Apps: April 28, 2011
This week we take a look at the app debut for Marc Brown's Arthur, an app that shares a Chinese take on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and one that teaches kids math.
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Vook Debuts TextVook, Educational Multimedia Apps
Vook, a multimedia e-book and app developer, has launched TextVook, a series of short educational multimedia apps offering information on a variety of topics from history, psychology and the law to economics, music and even constitutional law. The TextVook series is launching with 20 apps each selling for $4.99 and the company plans to release more than 200 apps in the series over the next year.
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Macmillan Launches Crime and Mystery Web Site CriminalElement.com
Macmillan has launched CriminalElement.com, an online community for fans of crime and mystery fiction, focused on celebrating the genre and offering a combination of new material and pre-release excerpts as well as fan and writer commentary and more.
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Penguin Launches Book Country, An Online Community for Genre Fiction
Looking to support and develop writers of genre fiction, Penguin is launching a public beta of Book Country, a free online writing community and publishing services venture.
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Dark Horse Launches Comics App and Digital Store
After updating its software to comply with Apple's revamped app guidelines, Dark Horse will launch the Dark Horse Digital application for iOS devices and the Dark Horse Web store on April 27. The application will feature more than 250 comics priced from from free to 99 cents to $1.99.
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The Week in Children's Apps: April 25, 2011
This week we take a look at an app based on a children’s book about dinosaurs and one that let kids dress princesses up.
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Why Libraries Should – and May Be – Hawking Hocking (Soon)
For my teaching job, I recently got to borrow an iPad. Woo-hoo! No one was more excited than my 11-year-old daughter, Gigi. She immediately downloaded the Amazon app and searched for the bestselling teen books. For a mere 99 cents, she could buy Switched, the first e-title in Amanda Hocking’s Trylle Trilogy.
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Kindle Teams with OverDrive to Lend Library Books
Amazon announced this morning that Kindle owners will soon be able to borrow books from public libraries. Working with vendor OverDrive, which manages e-book lending for the vast majority of public libraries, the deal will make thousands of titles available via more than 11,000 of Overdrive’s public library partners.
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Correction: Terry Southern Titles
In a piece from yesterday's PW Daily about Open Road Media releasing e-book editions of a number of titles by Terry Southern, we incorrectly stated that Southern's work is out-of-print. In 1996 Grove Press reissued Southern's novels Candy, Flash and Filigree, The Magic Christian, and Blue Movie. And in 2002, Grove published a collection of writing by Southern called Now Dig This.
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Orbit Selling E-Book Short Stories
Orbit Books has launched a digital short fiction program, offering original stories from Orbit authors. The stories will be available at all major e-book retailers, currently only in the U.S., although other territories will be added in the future.
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Ingram, Recorded Books Team for Digital Audiobook Service
Ingram is teaming with Recorded Books to launch a new downloadable audio service for libraries. Under the agreement, Ingram will move its downloadable audio content to Recorded Books' OneClickdigital platform.
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Open Road Media To Release e-Books of Six Terry Southern Titles
Open Road Media plans to release e-book editions on May 3 and June 7 of six novels by the late Terry Southern, a formerly popular satirist, bestselling novelist and journalist as well as the screenwriter for such films as Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider. Open Road Media is working in parallel with Digital Book Works, an academic program at the University of Colorado focused on culture, multimedia and business design, that launched an unusual campaign at the recent SXSW festival to revive public interest in the iconic writer.
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E-Bells and E-Whistles for 'Silver Palate' and 'Asian Dumplings'
Of the many reasons most cookbook users still prefer print to digital, layout may be one of the most important. But digital cookbooks have their perks, allowing authors to demonstrate techniques with audio and video. Here are two ways publishers have made their e-cookbooks more appealing.
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Karen Hunter Launches First One Digital Publishing
Launched in January as an independent digital venture headed by Karen Hunter, publisher of the S&S imprint Karen Hunter Publishing, First One Digital Publishing is an ambitious digital-first venture looking to create a new model for book publishing. Focused on releasing a list of fiction and nonfiction written by both veteran and emerging authors, First One Digital Publishing has released 11 e-books so far as it gears up for a new set of e-book releases and the launch of a major marketing and promotional compaign for its titles.
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