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    iBooks Bestsellers: Roth's Hot Streak Continues

    | 12/26/2013 @ 10:44AM

    Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy continues to sell well in Apple's iBookstore, with all three books in the trilogy among the top five for the week ending December 23.

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    Kohn Appeals Penguin, Macmillan E-book Settlements

    By Andrew Albanese | 12/23/2013 @ 12:00AM

    The fight goes on: RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn has appealed final approval of the Macmillan and Penguin e-book settlements to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

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    Oyster, Perseus Ink Pilot E-Book Deal

    By Calvin Reid | 12/19/2013 @ 04:30PM

    Oyster, the e-book subscription service launched this year, has reached a deal with the Perseus Books Group to launch a pilot program offering 100 Perseus titles through the Oyster subscription catalog

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    Comixology Brings French Digital Comics to U.S., Canada

    By Calvin Reid | 12/19/2013 @ 03:00PM

    Continuing to expand its inventory of French-language comics, Comixology, the digital comics platform and marketplace, is releasing 700 French comics in the North American marketplace.

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    Scribd Signs Deal with Smashwords

    | 12/19/2013 @ 10:00AM

    Smashwords more than 225,000 independent e-books will now be available on Scribd.

  • DailyLit to Release First Short Story Bundle

    | 12/18/2013 @ 09:45AM

    You Don't Look Like Your Picture: Stories of Love in the Digital Age will explore "the ways our digital obsessions have (and haven't) transformed the way we love."

  • iBooks Bestsellers: Roth Takes Top Spot

    | 12/18/2013 @ 09:15AM

    All three of the books in Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy landed in the top five bestselling paid titles for Apple's iBooks store for the week ended December 16.

  • Kindle Worlds to Publish New Howey Work

    | 12/17/2013 @ 10:15AM

    Kindle Worlds, Amazon's fan fiction publishing platform, has announced it will be releasing a new work by Wool author Hugh Howey.

  • Knovel Adds New Publishing Partners

    | 12/17/2013 @ 09:30AM

    Knovel, an online site and application that offers information and services for engineers, has added titles and content from six publishers to its database of technical information.

  • Follett and Macmillan Partner on PreK-12 E-books

    | 12/17/2013 @ 09:30AM

    Follett announced that it has partnered with Macmillan to distribute the publisher's collection of e-book titles for PreK-12 students.

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    eReatah Renamed Entitle, Revamps Business Model

    | 12/17/2013 @ 09:00AM

    eReatah, a subscription e-book service, is revamping and rebranding under a new name, Entitle, and now offers e-books to download and own.

  • Aquafadas Debuts Cloud Authoring System

    | 12/17/2013 @ 09:00AM

    Aquafadas, a digital publishing platform that allows publishers to create multimedia apps for books, comics and magazines without a programmer, has launched a public beta of its new cloud authoring system.

  • PROSE Awards to Offer $10K for Top Prize

    by Andrew Albanese | 12/16/2013 @ 12:00AM

    For the first time, the AAP’s Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division is endowing the R.R. Hawkins Prize with a $10,000 cash award to the winning author.

  • DoJ: Apple Is Trumping Up Monitor Concerns

    By Andrew Albanese | 12/16/2013 @ 12:00AM

    In a letter to the court, U.S. attorney Lawrence Buterman hit back at Apple, alleging that the company is publicly maligning its external monitor to bolster its case for a stay of the court’s final injunction.

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    New Paradigm’s Black Sherlock, ‘Watson and Holmes’

    By Maurice Boyer | 12/11/2013 @ 01:00PM

    New Paradigm Studios, a new comics publisher, is offering a fresh take on genre material, launching with Watson and Holmes, an African American recreation of literature’s greatest detectives.

  • iBooks Bestsellers: 'Mockingjay' Still Hot

    | 12/11/2013 @ 09:20AM

    For the past three weeks, the final installment in Collins's Hunger Games series has taken the top spot, and last week was followed, once again, by Veronica Roth's Divergent.

  • B&T Partners with S&S

    | 12/10/2013 @ 09:35AM

    Baker and Taylor has announced a pilot program that will make over 450 Simon and Schuster e-book titles available to classrooms and school libraries using B&T's Axis 360 digital media circulation platform.

  • Judge Tosses Booksellers' Suit Against Publishers, Amazon

    By Andrew Albanese | 12/10/2013 @ 08:00AM

    Calling the booksellers’ allegations “threadbare,” the judge was unable to find any plausible motive for the publishers to conspire with Amazon to limit their retail e-book options.

  • Judge Approves Final E-book Settlements

    By Andrew Albanese | 12/06/2013 @ 05:00PM

    Texas state attorney Rebecca Fisher told PW that it would take 30 days for the judgment to take effect, and perhaps another 15-30 days for the retailers to begin disbursing the settlements funds to consumers.

  • McGraw-Hill Professional, OverDrive Partner on E-book Lending

    | 12/05/2013 @ 09:25AM

    K-12 school libraries and public libraries worldwide will have access to McGraw-Hill's catalog of more than 5,000 business, consumer, education, medical, and technical titles.

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