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Olive Software Offers New E-book Enhancement Tool
Olive Software's SmartLayers technology claims to turn a publisher's generic prose e-books into an easily revised and upgradeable multimedia-enriched content platform.
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Apple E-book Monitor Reports 'Setbacks'
The latest report, for the six-month period ending in February, hints at the tension that has marked Apple's monitorship thus far.
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Scribd Subscription Adds Penguin Random Audiobooks
Penguin Random House will offer its audiobooks, though not its e-book titles, via the Scribd subscription service.
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Orbit Plans to Serialize New K.J. Parker Fantasy Epic
In a literary experiment, fantasy novelist K.J. Parker will serialize a new epic story in monthly e-books, writing it as the book's episodes are released.
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iBooks Bestsellers: No Stopping Hawkins
Paula Hawkins’s 'The Girl on the Train' held onto its #1 spot on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list, for the week ended April 13.
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Open Road Acquires Sillitoe Backlist, Unpublished Novel
Open Road Integrated Media has secured rights to a large body of British writer Alan Sillitoe’s work, as well as the rights to his last, unpublished novel, 'Moggerhanger.'
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London Book Fair 2015: 3M Expands Cloud Library to U.K. and Beyond
Already in over 1,000 libraries in the U.S. and Canada, users abroad will soon be able to use 3M to borrow library e-books.
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Beta Testing Capstone’s E-book Bundling Program
After years of asking mainstream publishers for e-books to be bundled with physical books, a small group of indie booksellers have gotten their wish.
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, April 5, 2015
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended April 5, 2015.
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Associated Press Debuts Book Line
AP Editions will release titles about current events and global personalities based on the work of AP reporters stationed throughout the world.
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Report Looks at New Publishing Business Models
Spain-based Dosdoce.com this week released an English language version of its 2014 report “New Business Models in the Digital Age.”
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iBooks Bestsellers: Coben Chases Hawkins
Paula Hawkins’s blockbuster debut thriller, 'The Girl on the Train,' still held firm at #1 on Apple's chart.
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, March 29, 2015
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended March 29, 2015.
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iBooks Bestseller List: ‘Steve Jobs’ Lands at #2
'Becoming Steve Jobs,' Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli’s biography of the late Apple CEO, rose from the #8 spot to the #2 spot on Apple’s bestseller list for the week ended March 30.
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Publishers Weekly Webcasts
Information and registration for PW's Webcasts.
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iBooks Bestsellers: ‘Paper Towns’ Rises
The debut of the trailer of the film adaptation shot John Green's 2008 novel to the #2 spot.
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HarperCollins Inks Content Deal with Playster
Playster, a new subscription platform offering access to books, music, games and films, has added 14,000 backlist titles from HarperCollins.
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Scholastic Takes Minority Stake in Make Believe Ideas
Scholastic will take minority equity stake in MBI and launch a cobranded line of interactive kids e-books for early learners.



