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  • Major Publishers on Board with Agency Pricing in Canada's iBookstore

    Last week, Apple offered Canada its birthday greetings by officially launching the iBookstore in the country. Although the free iBooks app has technically been available to Canadians with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch since the end of May, customers north of the border could previously only take advantage of free public domain classics.

  • Wattpad, Smashwords Ink e-Book Partnership

    Wattpad, an online writing community, social network and mobile phone e-book developer, is partnering with e-book publisher and distributor, Smashwords, to provide wider distribution and cross promotion opportunities for writers from both online communities.

  • Lerner Goes Digital

    This weekend at the American Library Association conference in Washington, D.C., Lerner Publishing Group will unveil Lerner Digital, its new digital content brand for the school and library markets, by launching the company’s new line of fiction and nonfiction digital books for struggling readers, Lerner Interactive Books. Lerner will release 33 titles for the Lerner Interactive Books inaugural list this fall.

  • DC Comics Launches iPad, iPhone App; PlayStation Network Deals

    DC Comics has teamed with the comics resource site and app developer Comixology to make its comics available through the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch beginning today; and in a separate deal, DC's comics will also be distributed through the PlayStation Network.

  • FT Press Publishes New E-Book Series

    FT Press today unveiled a new series of e-books called Insights for the Agile Investor, published via its digital imprint, FT Press Delivers. The books offer what FT Press describes as "focused and brief insights for individual and professional investors."

  • Open Road to Publish E-Editions of 24 Jack Higgins Thrillers

    Open Road Integrated Media, which got a major financial boost earlier this month, announced its latest e-book acquisition today: 24 Jack Higgins books, originally published between 1959 and 1985, which it will release as e-books as part of its Author Branded Program. The e-books are on sale today, and Open Road will release print-on-demand paperback editions of the books in the coming weeks.

  • Kobo Debuts e-Reader for Android Phones

    E-book retailer Kobo has released free Kobo e-book reading software for smartphones using the Android operating system. Kobo offers e-reading software for a wide variety of smartphones and dedicated e-readers including iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Palm WebOS and the newly released Kobo reading device.

  • Quark, KNFB, B&T Team to Offer Digital Publishing 2.0

    Software developer Quark was joined by K-NFB Reading Technology, developer of Blio, the much anticipated e-reading software, and distributor Baker & Taylor at the Untethered digital conference in Manhattan to announce a partnership that will launch Digital Publishing 2.0, a comprehensive digital content creation and distribution platform.

  • Wiley Does, Or Doesn't, Adopt the Agency Model

    Asked to describe the terms of their new agreement with Apple, executives at John Wiley danced around the question Thursday afternoon in a conference call with analysts.

  • S&S Optimizes Sample Content With New Sites

    Simon & Schuster has launched three new Web sites featuring 500-1,000 word samples from its nonfiction titles. The sites--tipsonhealthyliving.com, tipsonlifeandlove.com and tipsonhomeandstyle.com--have all been set up with search engine optimization in mind, to draw readers interested in the specific topics.

  • Chronicle, Mobifusion to Deliver Speciality Titles to Mobile Phones

    Chronicle Books has teamed with mobile publishing vendor Mobifusion to convert and deliver a series of Chronicle Book’s specialty card decks to a wide variety of smart phone platforms.

  • Former Lulu Staffer Launches Digital Publishing House

    Anthony Policastro, a former business analyst at self-publishing vendor Lulu.com, has launched the Outer Banks Publishing Group, a new publishing venture that will focus on digital publishing and the use of social media to build an audience for POD print releases.

  • VQR Unveils iPad Edition

    The Virginia Quarterly Review has created a digital edition specifically tailored for the iPad. The literary magazine from the University of Virginia has become one of the first magazines to create such an edition and sell it directly through Apple's iBookstore. A free 29-page sample of the magazine's current issue can be downloaded here. VQR is selling its digital editions at a price point of $3.99, as compared to the $14.99 price for the print issue.

  • Apple Unveils iPhone, iBooks Upgrades; Five Million e-Books Downloaded

    Although books are not necessarily the focus of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers conference in San Francisco--where the new iPhone 4 is being unveiled today--Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced several upgrades for the iBook e-book format and several impressive book related upgrades for the new iPhone 4. He also said 5 million e-books have been downloaded since the iPad launch.

  • Open Road Gets $4 Million in New Financing

    Kohlberg Ventures has increased its investment in Open Road Integrated Media LLC. The venture capital firm invested an additional $4 million in Series A financing, building upon its original $3 million investment last August. Jim Kohlberg, founder of Kohlberg, said: "We strongly believe that the Open Road model and its team are uniquely positioned to succeed in the marketplace."

  • 'PW' Inks Content Deals with Scribd, Zinio

    There's an app for everything and that includes Publishers Weekly. PW will use the week of BEA to announce a series of digital partnerships that will make PW content more widely available around the Web and on devices of all kinds.

  • E-Book Sales Jumped 252% in First Quarter, AAP Reports

    E-book sales from the 13 publishers that report results to the Association of American Publishers' monthly sales program rose nearly 252% in the first quarter of 2010, to $91 million, the association reported this morning. Growth actually slowed somewhat in March from the earlier two months, but sales still increased 184.8% to $28.5 million. The e-book gains were easily the biggest in the industry in both the quarter and March. The AAP added a new category in the month, downloadable audio, and sales from the 10 companies that reported results rose 32.5% in the quarter, to $16.4 million.

  • Mobile Phone Readers Grow on Wattpad

    According to the latest quarterly report on visitors to Wattpad, an online writing community and social networking site focused on e-books on mobile phones, social networking between writers and readers is increasing; reading on mobile phones continues to grow around the world and the iPhone is the dominant mobile device used for reading in English speaking countries. Wattpad claims to attract about 2 million visitors a month and claims its members generate more than a million downloads of its content each month.

  • Agents Weigh the Growth Of Alternate Publishing Options

    In a week that saw Barnes & Noble announce a new self-publishing unit, one small deal that had the publishing industry paying attention was J.A. Konrath's decision to do his next book, Shaken, with Amazon's publishing arm, AmazonEncore. Reports quickly surfaced that Konrath would be making a roughly 70% return on the list price of his forthcoming e-book--$2.10 off a $2.99 Kindle edition. While a rep from Amazon confirmed that royalty does not apply to Konrath's deal with AmazonEncore, the deal still had some in the industry saying the move signaled a "game changer" for corporate publishing. Since Konrath is presumably getting a high digital royalty rate on Shaken, many wondered whether the big six should be quaking in their proverbial New York City boots.

  • ECW Press Launches E-book Imprint with Online Literary Magazine

    Toronto-based ECW Press is launching a new e-book imprint this fall in collaboration with Joyland, an online literary magazine. In October, Joyland eBooks will publish the first of three short fiction collections for 2010. Emily Schultz, an author who has also been a freelance editor with ECW, co-founded Joyland with author Brian Joseph Davis two years ago. Together with editors in several major North American cities, they primarily publish short fiction, although there have also been a few scripts and excerpts from novels.

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