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OR’s New Model at Work in ‘Going Rouge’
New progressive press OR Books is using an e-book, print-on-demand strategy to release its first book, Going Rouge.
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Simon & Schuster Delaying 'Under the Dome' E-book Release
With publishers experimenting on release dates for e-books, Simon & Schuster has announced it is delaying the release of the e-book of Stephen King's eagerly anticipated new 1,000-plus-page novel, Under the Dome.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Europeans Play the Moral Rights Card Against Google Settlement
There’s been a simmering anti-Google sentiment at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, no doubt connected to European objections to the Google Book Search Settlement. And on Friday that simmer reached a boil, as the deal faced harsh—at times, puzzling—criticism at a registration-required panel on “European and American Positions Towards the Google Settlement.”
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Ray Kurzweil Teams with Baker & Taylor on New eReader Software
Baker & Taylor announced a partnership with acclaimed scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, to supply digital content for K-NFB Reading Technology, a newly developed e-book reading software created by Kurzweil in collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind.
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A Closer Look at Disney Digital Books
Late last month, Disney Publishing Worldwide unveiled the launch of Disney Digital Books, and further details were announced during Disney’s presentation to the media on October 8. An online library of more than 500 classic and contemporary titles, Disney Digital Books was designed around three key components: an Interactive Reader, Look and Listen, and a Story Builder, which lets kids create their own books. Because Disney owns its own content...
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Friedman Expounds on Open Road Integrated Media
From the Frankfurt Book Fair where she is promoting her new company, former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman has added a few more details about her new operation, Open Road Integrated Media.
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McGraw-Hill Professional in E-books Deal with ScrollMotion
McGraw-Hill Professional has announced a deal with iPhone app developer ScrollMotion to offer e-books as iPhone and iPod Touch apps via ScrollMotion’s Iceberg Reader.
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Gaiman to Launch Crowd-Sourced Story on Twitter
Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman is writing a new crowd-sourced short story on Twitter. Starting tomorrow at noon EDT, the author—and well-known Twitter fan (@neilhimself)—will Tweet the first line of a new story, and fans can continue it with their own 140-character contributions. BBC Audiobooks America will then compile the contributions—they expect about 1,000—into a short story that will be recorded by a professional narrator.
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Questions Mount Before Debut of International Kindle
Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending (Oct. 19) release of a $279 Kindle that will be available for sale in more than 100 countries has raised a variety of questions. Here are the most pressing. How will the integrity of territorial rights be maintained? What will be the impact of digital edition...
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New Dates Set in Google Settlement
At a 30-minute status conference held October 7, the parties involved in the Google Book Search Settlement signed off on a new schedule aimed at reaching a final agreement early in 2010. November 9 Amended agreement to be filed with the court, to include amendments drafted to address concerns raised by the original settlement.
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Swine Flu Leads to Wiley E-book
In response to the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic, John Wiley is publishing its first-ever e-book—only trade title. Swine-Flu: The New Pandemic by Marc Siegel, M.D., will be available later this month, priced at $6.99. According to Thomas Miller, executive editor, general interest books at Wiley, “We thought the time was right to publish a short book that included the most important information...
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iStoryTime Brings New Authors to Smartphones
The digital revolution means it isn't just big companies and established authors getting into the e-book app game - anyone with an idea, some start-up capital and tech know-how can now successfully bring a high-quality e-book app to market. That is exactly what happened with three friends with technology backgrounds who wanted to give their children books, not video games, to occupy themselves at the grocery store. The result is iStoryTime, an e-book platform for iPhone and Android OS that is getting...
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Amended Google Deal Targeted for November 9
At a status conference held in a crowded New York courtroom this morning, lawyers representing the AAP and Authors Guild told judge Denny Chin they will file an amended agreement with the court by November 9 to address the many concerns raised by the original Google Book Search Settlement.
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S&S, Disney Try New Models
Over the past several years, industry executives have been casting about for new business models that will allow them to monetize their print assets in an increasingly digital world. Last week, two publishers unveiled new products that look to do just that. Simon & Schuster teamed with multimedia startup Vook to publish four video—e-book hybrid titles—dubbed, appropriately, vook...
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Bookselling Heads to the Espresso Age
In the next two months, seven independent bookstores in the U.S. will add Espresso Book Machines from On Demand Books capable of brewing a 300-page perfect-bound book in five to seven minutes.
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iMinds Launches Eight-Minute Audiobooks
In an attempt to capitalize on people’s short attention spans and ever-increasing dependence on iPods and other MP3 players, a new company, iMinds, has launched a series of eight-minute audiobooks that offer compact overviews of general knowledge subjects ranging from the history of whale hunting to creationism. There are currently 72 iMinds MindTracks available for download at Audible and the iTunes store, and iMinds plans to roll out hundreds more by the end of 2010.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Survey Finds Publishers In Search of New Business Models
Just over 72% of publishers taking part in a survey on the impact of digitization on book publishing said the development of new business models, new multimedia products and effective marketing strategies are the biggest challenges facing publishers as they make the transition from print to digital.
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Sony in Deals with Smashwords, Author Solutions
Sony has signed deals with Smashwords and Authors Solutions that will permit e-books published or distributed by the two companies to be sold through the Sony eBook Store.
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O'Reilly Media, Microsoft Press Team Up
O'Reilly Media and Microsoft Press have into into a joint agreement under which O'Reilly will assume distribution for Microsoft, convert Microsoft titles to e-books and co-publish about half of the press's list.
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Can the Google Book Settlement Be Saved?
Despite asking a federal judge to cancel the scheduled October 7 fairness hearing, the parties in the Google Book Search Settlement said they were eager to fix the deal and move forward. As the legal dust settled last week, however, a growing number of critics and observers claim the settlement has been effectively killed.
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