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Avon Impulse Trumpets Sales Milestone
HarperCollins's digital-first romance fiction imprint, created in 2011, announced that in the four years since its launch it has sold more than three million e-books.
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iBooks Bestsellers: 'Hope' Debuts at #4
Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus's account of their abduction by Ariel Castro, came in at #4 on Apple's iBooks bestseller list for the week ended May 4.
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, April 26, 2015
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended April 26, 2015.
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Pubs Partner with White House on E-reading Initiative
President Obama announced today digital reading initiatives for low income students that include major e-book donations from corporate publishers, and a commitment to ensuring all students have access to a library card.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Hawkins Still Hot
Paula Hawkins’s 'The Girl on the Train' was once again the top selling title in Apple’s iBooks store for the week ended April 27.
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Rakuten Completes Acquisition of OverDrive
Global e-commerce platform Rakuten, which owns e-book retailer Kobo, completes the acquisition of library digital content vendor OverDrive for $410 million.
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Ghomeshi Bio to Be First Original Title Published by Kobo
This June, Canadian e-book retailer Kobo will publish its first original e-book when it releases Kevin Donovan's 'Jian Ghomeshi: Secret Life.'
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Expertise on Display: Projects Showcase: Digital Solutions in India 2015
Convoluted RFPs (request for proposals), complex NDA (non-disclosure agreements), abstract briefings and impossible deadlines are nothing new to India-based vendors. In fact, they thrive on the difficult and challenging, as shown by the following projects (or abbreviated case studies) that fully encapsulate their capabilities and unique solutions.
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Markup Standards for Books and Journals: Digital Solutions in India 2015
In any standards landscape, there is diversity and not likely to be a single or permanent solution. Because content often has to connect to bibliographic and business metadata, integration with other standards can be a requirement and a challenge.
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Digital Solutions Industry: Then, Now and the Future: Digital Solutions in India 2015
Over the last decade, publishers have seen many external factors impacting their business models.
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Workflow Management that Works: Digital Solutions in India 2015
The publishing industry is constantly evolving with improved workflows and processes.
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Digital Discoverability of Relevant Content: Digital Solutions in India 2015
Until recently, our conversations about e-books with publishing clients centered on conversion—on tools and workflows, competing standards, best practices, and retailer requirements, decisions around fixed layout v. reflow, opportunities for enhancement and interactivity, accessibility, and the reader experience.
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Personalization and Customization in E-learning: Digital Solutions in India 2015
When introducing new learning products to today’s market, personalization is key to success.
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Meeting the Demand for More Agile and Mobile Content: Digital Solutions in India 2015
Ten years ago, it was all about content conversion and e-deliverables.
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Charting the Transformation in Digital Content and Solutions: Digital Solutions in India 2015
The first PW coverage of the India-based digital solutions industry, which was then widely known as “content services,” coincided with the launch of Twitter and Google’s acquisition of a 22-month-old startup called Android Inc.
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Digital Solutions in India 2015: The 10th Annual Review
Welcome to the 10th annual coverage on the India-based digital publishing solutions industry.
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, April 19, 2015
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended April 19, 2015.
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Penguin Random House Debuts New Unified Website
The publisher's newly designed website, which brings Random House and Penguin together online, is optimized for mobile devices and, according to PRH CEO Markus Dohle is “consumer-focused.”
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iBooks Bestsellers: ‘The Liar’ Reaches #2
The latest from Nora Roberts debuted at #2 on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list.



