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  • Today’s 'PW' Live Webcast Breaks Over 1100 Registered Participants

    | 09/17/2013 @ 09:45AM

    Join us today at 1 p.m. for PW’s live webcast "For the Love of Romance," hosted by PW contributing editor and Beyond Her Book blogger Barbara Vey.

  • HarperCollins Opens Voting for BookSmash Challenge

    | 09/17/2013 @ 08:00AM

    The contest challenges developers to create new digital products that "break the binding" and reimagine the book.

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    iBooks Bestsellers: Child Stays on Top

    | 09/16/2013 @ 09:50PM

    Lee Child's Never Go Back still sat at #1 on Apple's iBooks paid bestseller list, for the week ending September 16.

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    Fast Growing Issuu Appoints Joe Hyrkin CEO

    By Calvin Reid | 09/16/2013 @ 10:00AM

    Issuu is a fast-growing digital publishing platform designed to make content more discoverable and help publishers connect with readers.

  • Vintage to Pub James Baldwin's Major Works in E

    | 09/13/2013 @ 12:00AM

    Random House's Vintage Books is bringing James Baldwin into the 21st century.

  • Kobo Teams with National Book Store in Phillipines

    | 09/11/2013 @ 11:00AM

    E-book retailer Kobo is teaming with the National Book Store, a 150 store chain in the Philippines, to introduce its suite of digital reading devices and its e-book retailing and self-publishing platforms.

  • Wattpad, Diversion Books Launch a Mia Thompson Book Club

    | 09/11/2013 @ 12:00AM

    Online writing community Wattpad is teaming up with Diversion Books, the e-publishing platform launched by literary agent Scott Waxman, to host a book club focused on Diversion author Mia Thompson’s thriller Stalking Sapphire, published earlier this year.

  • Open Road to Publish 'Tracks'

    | 09/11/2013 @ 12:00AM

    Open Road Integrated Media has landed the e-rights to Robyn Davidson's national bestseller, Tracks.

  • iBooks Bestsellers: 'Never Go Back' on Top

    | 09/10/2013 @ 12:00AM

    The new release by Lee Child, Never Go Back, was the top-selling book in the iBooks store for the week ended September 9.

  • CourseSmart Adds Options

    | 09/10/2013 @ 12:00AM

    With the fall semester in full swing, CourseSmart has announced a number of new options that it says will lower the cost of textbooks for college students.

  • Knovel Revamps, Redesigns Its Search Platform

    By Calvin Reid | 09/09/2013 @ 09:30AM

    Knovel, an online application that offers information and services for engineers, has redesigned its search platform to offer a simpler interface, more precise results and interactive results that can be integrated into third party engineering systems.

  • Are Publishers a Match for Kindle MatchBook?

    By Rachel Deahl | 09/06/2013 @ 10:00AM

    When Amazon announced on Tuesday that it was launching a program to bundle print and e-books, called Kindle MatchBook, the effort drew little response from publishers, and even less participation.

  • Judge Signs Final Order in Apple E-book Case

    By Andrew Albanese | 09/06/2013 @ 12:00AM

    The final order represents a measure of closure to the long-running price-fixing saga, although the battle is far from over. Apple is planning a vigorous appeal of Cote’s July 10 decision. In addition, Apple and the states and the consumer class are on track for a May, 2014, trial on damages.

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    Sourcebooks, Wattpad Team Up To Launch YA Authors

    By Calvin Reid | 09/05/2013 @ 12:45PM

    Wattpad is entering into a multifaceted partnership with Sourcebooks to both publish Wattpad writers through the Sourcebooks Fire YA imprint and market Sourcebook authors on the online writing community.

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    iBooks Bestsellers: Elvira Ousts Rowling

    | 09/05/2013 @ 10:00AM

    Two books by self-published authors landed in the top spots on Apple's iBooks paid bestseller list for the week ending September 2.

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    Figshare Launches Data Research Management Platform

    | 09/05/2013 @ 10:00AM

    The service described as “a Dropbox for academic research” has added functionality to allow researchers to make their work citable and discoverable.

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    Eight Years Later, the Google Books Fight Lumbers On

    By James Grimmelmann | 09/05/2013 @ 10:00AM

    Officially, Judge Chin is undecided and is giving the parties their proper chance to persuade him. But his scheduling orders are the work of a judge who would like to bring matters to a close, and soon.

  • Smashwords Hits 250,000

    | 09/05/2013 @ 12:00AM

    Smashwords founder Mark Coker announced on his blog Wednesday evening that the distributor of self-published e-books released its 250,000 book on September 4.

  • Viz Media to Raise Digital Manga Prices October 1

    By Calvin Reid | 09/04/2013 @ 05:00PM

    Viz Media is raising the prices of its regular digital manga releases from $4.99 a volume to $6.99 beginning October 1. The standard price of its print volumes will remain $9.99.

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    RH Children's to Publish Seuss Classics as E-books

    | 09/04/2013 @ 10:00AM

    On September 24, the longtime publisher of Dr. Seuss's print editions will debut 15 digital versions.

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