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Kobo, Reading Life Apps add Instapaper
Kobo, the eBook reading software and e-tailer, has upgraded its software integrating Instapaper, an app that allows readers to easily save web articles, into the Kobo software for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Kobo is also upgrading its Reading Life app for iPad, an app that adds a gaming element to reading by allowing readers to easily track their reading habits and statistics and earn awards by simply reading.
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Send Us Your Apps
Beginning next week, PW Daily and Children's Bookshelf will start carrying a weekly listing of apps that have come out during that week. To be included, please send us the app title, the book or other source for the app (if there is one--original apps are fine, too), when it was released, price, background of the book (including such info as copies in print, when it was released, awards, and brief plot summary), and the interactive elements of the app. We also need the promo codes. Send all apps to Jim Milliot at jmilliot@publishersweekly.com, and send news of children's apps to Diane Roback at roback@publishersweekly.com as well.
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The Week in Children's Apps: December 16, 2010
The app field is heating up in children’s books, with a critical mass of titles coming to the market. This week we spotlight four releases, from Random House, Ruckus Media, HMH/Oceanside Media, and Greenwillow/Curious Puppy.
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Random, Workman Release New Apps with New Partners
The apps keep coming as both Random House and Workman have announced the release of the first apps from new partnership deals.
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Amazon Says It's Sold ‘Millions’ of Kindles This Quarter
In a mild break with its policy of withholding Kindle sales numbers, Amazon has stated, in a letter to Kindle customers posted on its Kindle discussion boards, that "in just the first 73 days of this holiday quarter, we've already sold millions of our all-new Kindles." Signed by "The Kindle Team," the letter goes on to state that these sales represent more Kindles sold than in all of 2009. This is Amazon's most concrete statement about Kindle sales and a clear indicator that e-reader sales have ramped up this year.
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Guinness Launches First Paid App
Guinness World Records is launching its first paid app. The app, designed specifically for the iPad, will be available in the App Store on December 16. After launching a free lite version of the app last spring, the new version, called Guinness World Records: At Your Fingertips, will retail for $4.99 and features video and games.
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E-book Trends By the Numbers
64: Percentage of all publishers now publishing e-books
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Figment Looks to Attract Young Writers
Founded by New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear and former New Yorker managing editor Jacob Lewis, Figment.com is an online writing community aimed at attracting a membership of young people, ranging from kids to teens and older, to post, share and comment on each other's original writing. Launched this week, the site is also teaming with YA author Blake Nelson, author of the well-received 1994 adult novel Girl, who is serializing Dream School, a long unpublished YA sequel to Girl, on the Figment site.
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New Survey on E-book Trends
A survey of 600 publishers from across the industry spectrum found 64% now offering e-books with 74% of trade houses producing titles in that format.
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Ruckus App Lands Author Three-Book Deal
Rick Richter's digital publishing venture, Ruckus Media, is releasing its first author-centric app, A Present for Milo, whic has landed its author a three-book deal. The app, which follows the titular mouse being chased by a cat throughout a house, has earned its author/creator, Mike Austin, a three-book deal with Blue Apple Books. Agent Rubin Pfeffer closed the deal for Austin, and the first book, scheduled for fall 2011, is a lift-the-flap title.
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DMP Launches the Digital Manga Guild
In an aggressive move to digitize and electronically distribute manga to as vast and wide an audience as possible, Southern California based manga publisher, Digital Manga Publishing, has launched Digital Manga Guild, a new online project aimed at both lowering the cost and speeding up the translation of Japanese manga into English.
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Google Launches Google eBooks, Formerly Google Editions
After months of anticipation, Google today launched its long-awaited cloud-based e-book program, Google eBooks. Rebranded from its original moniker, Google Editions, Google eBooks overnight becomes the largest e-book provider in the world, at least in terms of its offerings, launching with nearly three million books available for purchase or download, including "hundreds of thousands of e-books" available for purchase and over two million public domain titles available for free.
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An App Studio On Fulton Street
Seated in the conference room of his lower Manhattan office/production studio, Nicholas Callaway, chairman and CEO of Callaway Digital Arts, talked about the future of publishing and of his publishing house.
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Google Editions Really Coming Soon
Yesterday, in our roundup of how independent booksellers fared over Thanksgiving, we reported that several booksellers said the launch of the much-delayed Google Editions was imminent. And publishers have said the debut could come within days. The Wall Street Journal today said the launch will be by the end of the year.
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Digital Reader Penetration Accelerates
The launch of the iPad and price cuts to the Kindle resulted in a significant increase in the number of digital reading devices owned by consumers between June and November, with 21% of book shoppers now owning a dedicated e-reader or tablet.
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What Children's Publishers Are Doing in the Apps Space
Like their adult counterparts, children’s publishers are developing apps slowly. We spoke with a number of children's divisions and houses and found that many publishers are experimenting with different formats...
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B&N Opens Spanish-Language E-Book Store
Barnes & Noble has opened a Spanish-language digital bookstore, Nookbooks en espanol. It is selling Spanish-language bestsellers, new releases, classics, works in translation, and other books. There are also free works available, and all can be read on Nook devices.
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Twelve Launches Enhanced E-book Edition of Sebastian Junger's 'War'
Today, the Twelve imprint of Hachette is releasing an ambitious enhanced e-book version of Sebastian Junger's War, his nonfiction exploration of the trials encountered by American soldiers in Afghanistan, based on his own experience embedded with them.
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How Publishers Are Tackling the App Question
Are apps marketing devices for authors and books, or a new revenue stream? This is just one of many questions publishers are asking as they develop apps from their content. When PW approached large and midsize publishers to find out about their app programs, we discovered that many houses don't have "programs" per se.
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Digital Readers: A Guide
Reading in the digital era means picking the right reading device as much as picking the right book. So we’ve prepared a very selective chart listing some of the e-reading devices—from tablet computers to dedicated e-readers and smartphones—likely to be popular during the holiday season.
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