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S&S Draws Line in Digital Sand With Delay of E-book Titles
By stating last week that it would delay the release of the e-book editions of 35 titles set to be published in the January through April period, Simon & Schuster has become the first major house to put into place a firm release date for its e-books—four months after publication of the hardcover.
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'Sesame Street 'Launches E-Book Line
On Tuesday, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization that produces Sesame Street, launched its first e-book collection for young readers. There are currently five Sesame Street e-books are available to read online for free; the company will add more titles next month. Titles are available as flip e-books, audio e-books, and interactive e-book formats, with activities to enhance reading and learning skills.
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Neil Levin Launches EverPub
Industry veteran Neil Levin has started an online marketing platform for authors and self publishers, EverPub.
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Veteran Author Launches e-Book Venture
Veteran romance, women’s fiction and mystery novelist Donna Hill, along with writer Pittershawn Palmer, have launched InnerVision Books, an e-book publishing venture dedicated to publishing titles that highlight “multiculturalism in a global society.”
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Perseus Adds B&N and Shortcovers to Constellation Program
The Perseus Books Group has added two new e-book retailers to its Constellation digital services program: Barnes & Noble and Shortcovers. The company also introduced new elements to its digital short print run service, such as the ability to strip and rebind hardcovers, and print in the U.K.
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DailyLit Goes Free
DailyLit, which sends book excerpts to customers via e-mail or RSS feeds, has begun offering the service for free.
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Amended Google Deal Enters Stretch Run
The amended Google settlement submitted to the court on November 13 and given preliminary approval last Thursday by Judge Denny Chin dramatically scales back the number of titles covered by the agreement, broadens access to the scanned database of titles, and creates a more powerful advocate for dealing with unclaimed works.
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Friedman Talks Further About Open Road
Tuesday, at an appearance sponsored by NYU, Jane Friedman talked to grad students and the press about her new company, Open Road Integrated Media.
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Aptara Offers High-Volume ePub Conversion Software
Aptara, a digital vendor specializing in e-book data conversion, has developed eGen, a new e-book platform for converting large volumes of digital content into the ePub standard e-book format for distribution to multiple e-reader hardware platforms.
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Ratzlaff Founds Supreme Social Media
Former Rodale Books v-p Cindy Ratzlaff has started a new e-book and video publishing company, Supreme Social Media. The start-up, which Ratzlaff bills as “an online publishing and training company,” publishes e-books and downloadable videos. Its first release is a four book, 34-video series called FUNdamentals of Social Media, which includes lessons for beginners on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and SEO. It retails for $247 at the company's Web site.
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Smashwords in Deal with Shortcovers
Beginning November 18, Shortcovers will begin selling 2,000 e-book titles from Smashwords.
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Little Critter Comes to the iPhone
The iPhone is increasingly becoming a popular platform for children's books. Mercer Mayer's Little Critter is following Curious George and a handful of lesser-known characters into the Apple App store. The first Little Critter title to be made available as an iPhone app is Just Me and My Dad; it went live in the App Store last week. Somewhat unusually, this is a case where the rights holder, not the publisher, has developed the app...
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Extension Granted in Google Settlement
The parties working to revise the Google Book Search settlement have been granted until November 13 to file their new motion. The deadline had been midnight, November 9.
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Simon & Schuster Selling e-Chapters
Simon & Schuster has started to sell individual e-chapters to its bestselling You series of titles written by Dr. Michael F. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz. The initiative was developed as part of a broader effort by Dr. Oz to provide answers about health on his www.askdoctoroz.com Web site.
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U.K. Publishers Look at E-book Interoperability
The Publishers Association, a professional organization of British book publishers, announced plans to partner with Adobe Systems in an effort to discuss and expand the interoperability of e-book formats across the various operating systems and hardware.
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New Macmillan Contract Latest Wrinkle in Pricing Conundrum
In a letter sent to publishers on October 26, Macmillan CEO John Sargent drew what might be one of the first significant lines in the sand in the looming battle over the payout structure for e-books. Sargent announced that Macmillan would be instituting a boilerplate contract across its divisions that would offer a 20% royalty on net proceeds on e-books, a drop from what has become the de facto...
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San Francisco Panel Urges Publishers to Keep Experimenting
“Publishing in the Digital Age: Renaissance or Revolution” was the topic of this month’s meeting of the Northern California Book Publicity and Marketing Association.
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BookGlutton Partners with O'Reilly for Bookstore
The Web-based reading platform has teamed with O'Reilly to launch a bookstore with 500 O'Reilly e-books.
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Macmillan's Revised Contract Lowers Digital Royalties, Raises Direct to Consumer
A new Macmillan contract will change the way the publisher pays for digital sales as well as upping royalties for direct to consumer sales.
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Google Opponents Urge Court to Reconsider Restrictions on Revised Settlement
A broad group of opponents to the Google Book Search Settlement filed a letter with the Court Thursday urging judge Denny Chin not to restrict comments on a revised settlement, and to allow more time for would-be class members to assess any proposed revisions.
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