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TED, Amazon to Launch TEDBooks
TED, the renowned nonprofit conference and foundation that provides a platform to important writers, thinkers, and artists to offer “ideas worth spreading,” is launching TEDBooks, a line of short, digital books, in a partnership with Amazon.com. The e-books will be short--from 10,000 to 20,000 words--and sell for $2.99 through Amazon’s Kindle Singles program beginning today. TED plans to expand the program to other digital formats in the future.
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LibreDigital, RoyaltyShare Debut Separate e-Book Sale Tracking Deals
In separate announcements e-book distributor LibreDigital and business software developer MediaMorph announced a strategic partnership to launch LibreDigital Business Intelligence, a software service that tracks and manages e-book sales; and British house Faber and Faber announced a similar pact with royalty accounting firm RoyaltyShare to use its Digital Advantage for eBooks service to manage its worldwide eBook revenue.
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Digital Numbers from Oceanhouse Media, Barnes & Noble
With Digital Book World kicking off in New York, this week, Oceanhouse Media announced that more than one million apps developed by the company have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store. Barnes & Noble, meanwhile, said since the launch of the Nookcolor it has sold more than 650,000 total subscriptions and single copy sales of digital editions of newspapers and magazines.
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BookSwim Plans E-book Lending Site
With major publishers so far reticent to sanction a rental market for e-books, BookSwim.com, the New Jersey-based print-book rental company billed as "the Netflix of books," told PW it plans to launch a new site called eBookToss.com, a virtual "e-book swap" that will facilitate the direct lending of e-books between consumers using the lending features enabled by platforms like Kindle and Nook.
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Samhain Relaunches Website; Debuts Don D'Auria Horror Line
Don D'Auria, former executive editor at Dorchester's Leisure Books imprint and noted expert on the horror genre, has been hired by original e-book house Samhain Publishing to launch a line of horror titles. Samhain, an e-book publisher that also publishes traditional print titles, has also redesigned and relaunched the Samhain website.
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Peter Costanzo Moves to F+W Media
Peter Costanzo, director of online marketing for the Perseus Book Group, is leaving Perseus to take a position as director of digital content at F+W Media. He will report to Chad Phelps, F+W executive v-p, eMedia.
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Perseus Distributes E-Book of National BP Commission Report
Perseus Distribution is distributing an e-book edition of Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling, the official report by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, through its digital service, Constellation.
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The Week in Apps: January 14, 2011
This week we take a look at a couple of apps spun off of popular children's books, as well as ones for grown-ups on how to draw and what foods pair with what beverages.
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This Week in Children's Apps: January 13, 2011
This week we take a look at apps featuring the Berenstain Bears and Little Critter, one from Cajun artist and author George Rodrigue, and an original app about making the perfect blueberry muffin.
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Larsson, Gilbert Top OverDrive's Most Downloaded Library E-Books List
As ALA Midwinter kicks off in San Diego, e-book, audiobook, music, and video digital distributor OverDrive, which provides digital distribution services for more than 13,000 libraries, retailers, and schools, has released some statistics about library and school use. More than one million new users accessed free e-books, audiobooks, and other content from Virtual Branch Web sites (which OverDrive supports) last year, resulting in a 200% increase in e-book checkouts and a 52% increase in audiobook checkouts over 2009.
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The Week in Apps: January 7, 2011
This week, some beloved characters from children's books series make their app debuts. Also: How to Cook Everything for the iPad, and a graphic novel series.
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The Week in Children's Apps: January 6, 2011
This week, some beloved characters from children's book series make their app debuts, including Clifford and the gang from the Magic School Bus.
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F+W Media Partners with About.com for New Web Venture
F+W Media, the vertical content company behind, among other things, Digital Book World, and About.com, have partnered to create a new online venture, NetPlaces.com, which pairs F+W’s content and eCommerce engine with the About.com platform.
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B&N Introduces Nook Kids for iPad
Barnes & Noble has introduced a Nook kids for iPad application. The app makes B&N's digital catalog of children's content--which includes 100 new interactive kids' books--available on the e-reading device.
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Scholastic's New Line of iPad Apps Targets Preschoolers
Scholastic has introduced a new line of iPad apps called Touch & Tilt. The line launches with three apps, I Love You Through and Through; The Magic School Bus: Oceans; and Go, Clifford, Go! The apps are targeted at children ages two and up and were developed in-house.
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Santa Brings Random House Record E-Book Sales
December 25 and 26 were the two biggest e-book sales days ever for Random House, the publisher reported today. Combined e-book sales across e-retailers on those two days rose more than 300% over last year's sales for the same two-day period, which had been Random's best two-day e-book sales period ever.
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Larsson Tops Random House E-book Bestsellers
As part of its effort to help customers who receive e-readers for Christmas choose reading material, Random House has released a list of it top selling e-book titles. The three Stieg Larsson titles top the list followed by The Confession, Decision Points, The Lost Symbol, Cutting for Stone, Worth Dying For, Dark Fever and 61 Hours. The release also includes a breakdown of bestselling titles by 12 different categories.
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The Week in Apps: December 23, 2010
This week we take a look at new apps from publishers. There's a varied range, from originals to spin-offs of classic children's books, and subjects cover science, cheese, and more.
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Avon Relaunches Its Site
Avon has relaunched its Web site, www.avonromance.com, giving readers what it calls a "cleaner" look and more interactive features. The site features a streaming bookshelf, new e-bookstore featuring e-originals and e-book bundle offers. The site also features casual games based on the publisher's titles.
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Heading to a Digital Holiday
With holiday shopping in full swing comes more evidence that e-book sales should enjoy a big bump over the next few weeks. According to an analysis of consumer book-buying behavior conducted by Bowker's PubTrack Consumer service, 20% of readers reported in October that they are likely to buy an e-reader compared to just 10% in the 2009 holiday season.
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