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iBooks Bestsellers: 'Zealot' Second Only to 'Cuckoo'
After the author's appearance on FoxNews went viral last week, Reza Aslan's Zealot hit the iBooks bestseller list at #2 for the week ending August 5.
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Pending Appeal, Apple Requests Stay in E-book Case
A court filing hints at one major prong of Apple’s likely appeal strategy—to attack the judge and the judicial process.
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Apple Fires Back at "Draconian" DoJ Proposals
The strong language of Apple's opposition to the DoJ's proposed price-fixing remedy plays down a major weakness of its case—the "non-credible" testimony of key executives during its trial.
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Apple Calls DoJ Proposals Draconian
Apple replied quickly to the Department of Justice’s proposals for injunctive relief in the e-book price fixing case, calling the injunction “a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm.”
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DoJ Seeks Comprehensive Injunction in Apple E-book Case
Apple would be prohibited from “entering into agreements with suppliers of e-books, music, movies, television shows or other content that are likely to increase the prices at which Apple’s competitor retailers may sell that content.”
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Suvudu Launches New Writing Community
Suvudu, a Random House online destination for science fiction and fantasy fans established in 2008, announced the launch of a new writing community for its users, Suvudu Universe.
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Ingram Backs “Remix” Startup Slicebooks
Using Slicebooks, publishers can “remix” front and backlist titles into new packages, price and sell and chapters and sections individually online, and a new e-book “Remix Widget,” will give consumers the ability to create custom e-books.”
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iBooks Bestsellers: 'Cuckoo's Calling' Still at Number One
For the second week in a row, J.K. Rowling's pseudonymously written novel is the top selling paid e-book in Apple's iBooks e-bookstore, for the week ending July 29.
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Distribution: Ingram Adds APL and Maiden Lane Press as Clients
Ingram Publisher Services Inc., announced the addition of two new publisher clients, APL Publishing and Maiden Lane Press.
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Anomaly Publishing Returns with ‘Shifter’
Skip Brittenham and Brian Haberlin, the creative team that produced Anomaly, an ambitious sci-fi/AR-enhanced graphic novel released last year, were on hand at Comic-Con to promote Shifter: The Graphic Novel, the latest release in a line of painted, multimedia-enriched graphic novels.
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Kindle Singles: Growing, but Maintains Focus
The Kindle Singles store, according to its editor David Blum, is “like a bookstore where the manager also edits the books.” Blum is that manager-editor, and under his guidance the store has grown to feature nearly 400 works since launching in January 2011.
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Women's Prize Winner to Publish E-Book Original Short Story
Madeline Miller will be releasing an e-book original short story on Aug. 13 with HarperCollins.
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Kindle Singles Announces Interview Series
Amazon.com has announced “The Kindle Singles Interview,” a new series on the Kindle Singles platform.
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AcademicPub Launches Faculty Self-Publishing Service
AcademicPub is launching Express Books, a self-publishing service that will allow professors to publish their own books and distribute them through AcademicPub’s e-commerce platform.
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BookVibe Turns Twitter Data into Book Discovery Tool
BookVibe allows users to search their tweets and extract the books that are being discussed by the people they follow on Twitter.
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Publishers Have Paid $166 Million to Settle E-book Claims
In all, the total damages were calculated at $218,883,000, with 76% of those funds collected. Penguin and Macmillan, meanwhile, appear to have paid a premium for being the last two publishers to settle.
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iBooks Bestsellers: 'Cuckoo's Calling' Hits Number One
After J.K. Rowling was revealed to be the author of The Cuckoo's Calling, the novel was the top selling paid e-book in Apple's iBookstore.
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Book Country Launches Revamped Site
Self-publishing community Book Country launches its revamped site this week.
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Hurix Joins the IMS Global Learning Consortium
Mumbai-based Hurix, a leading digital solutions company, is now an alliance member of IMS Global Learning Consortium.
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