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D&M Preparing BookRiff Launch
Independent Canadian publisher D&M is launching an online bookstore that lets users create books, both print and electronic, using their own content or by compiling purchased content from publishers. BookRiff will launch in September, but the company is already entering into deals with publishers to get content for sale on the site.
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ScrollMotion in Deal with LibreDigital
ScrollMotion will make LibreDigital’s entire library of books, newspapers and magazines from publishers and distributors including HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Baker & Taylor and Wiley available on the iPhone.
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PoliPoint Enters Downloadable Audio Market
The indie house is testing the downloadable waters with two titles.
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FiledBy Expands Online Author Directory
Online resource FiledBy has expanded its online author directory, adding and linking together sites for coauthors, illustrators, artists, photographers and others who contributed to the publication of a book.
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Hyperion to Unveil Kernl
Hyperion is joining the online publishing world with its launch of Kernl, an “e-imprint” it will use to disseminate short packages of text combined with video and interactive components. The first Kernl, on job hunting, will debut tomorrow on Good Morning America (Hyperion’s sister company under ABC).
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Kindle DX: Bigger Screen, Higher Price, Many Questions
Ending a week of heavy media speculation, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the new, larger-format Kindle DX in front of about 200 journalists and camera crews at Pace University in lower Manhattan. Using a giant projection screen, Bezos delivered a presentation on the Kindle DX, which is essentially a Kindle 2 with a bigger, 9.
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The E-book Pricing Conundrum
With the industry intently focused on Amazon and its further expansion into the digital reading space—see p. 5 for more on the release of the Kindle DX—the price for e-books and how profits on them are broken down continues to be a hot topic among publishers, authors and agents. Currently, publishers make as much money on Kindle editions as print editions, since Amazon, the largest ...
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Michelin Unveils iPhone Apps for New York, San Francisco and More European Cities
While Michelin restaurant guide iPhone apps already exist for France and Europe, the company has now launched apps in markets that may be home to the highest number of iPhone owners: New York and San Francisco. It’s also rolling out apps in Germany, Spain & Portugal, Italy and the United Kingdom.
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Amazon Press Conference Set Amid Rumors of Bigger Screen Kindle
A New York Times story today about "Big-Screen e-Readers" has people abuzz about whether Amazon might be prepping to unveil a new version of the Kindle, with a bigger screen, designed specifically for newspaper and magazine content.
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SharedBook Partners with Nelson
SharedBook Inc., which already has partnerships with Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, Sterling, Bloomsbury, DK, Hachette and Regnery Publishing, has added Thomas Nelson to the list of publishers it works with to sell personalized books to consumers. The announcement coincides with SharedBook’s fifth anniversary and follows its entrance into the Christian market last year.
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Taking Steps into the Digital Future
E-books may date from the early 1970s, when Michael Hart launched Project Gutenberg, but the revolution in e-books for kids has only just begun. True, three novels from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series were library distributor Overdrive's three most downloaded e-books for 2008, but adult and children's digital books combined still make up a small percentage of book sales—less than 1% of ...
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DK Goes POD with Travel Site
After a soft launch, Traveldk.com—a new website from publisher DK--has reemerged with a new feature: personalized books available through POD technology.
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Strong Year at Knovel; Pagan Joins Firm
Christopher Forbes, president of Knovel, an online science and technical publishing service, reports strong results in 2002 and forecasts more of the same for the coming year. Using a proprietary text conversion technology, Knovel provides online subscription access to a wide variety of highly technical scientific texts, reference manuals and databases to clients in academia, the medical profe...
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Knovel Adds $3 M in Funding
In a rare boost for an e-publisher, Knovel, which publishes online technical reference databases, announced that it has received $3 million in financing from a group of investors, led by $1.5 million from Himalaya Capital Ventures. Other investors in the group include Milestone Venture Partners, Stonehenge Capital and Silicon Alley Venture partners.
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Digital, Print Comics from ComicsOne
ComicsOne founder Robin Kuo, a wireless gaming entrepreneur and longtime manga lover, launched the firm in 1999 with a visionary plan—to sell only downloadable e-comics. But like many such plans, this one needed tweaking. Slow sales spurred the company to reconsider and while ComicsOne continues to sell e-comics, it now offers manga in trade paperback editions as well.
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Shelfie Adds Audiobooks, Recommendations to E-bundling App
The e-bundling venture is adding thousands of audiobook titles to its offerings in addition to launching a new book recommendation engine.
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Tracking Amazon: The Front Page Effect
Three of the five Kindle Singles titles featured on the front page are on the top 10 bestseller list, "An Unexpected Twist" by Andy Borowitz, "Are Your Lonesome Tonight" by Mishka Shubaly, and "Ah, Rat" by Richard Babcock.
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