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Open Road Agrees with Holiday House

| 03/05/2013 @ 12:00AM

Open Road has agreed with Holiday House to digitally publish and distribute selected chapter books by Betsy Byars and 13 picture books by Tomie dePaola.
Ingram Adds Harlequin to MyiLibrary

| 03/05/2013 @ 12:00AM

Ingram's MyiLibrary platform has added over 12,000 Harlequin titles, including both frontlist and backlist, nonfiction and fiction, across multiple Harlequin imprints. MyiLibrary has over 400,000 titles in total.
Random House Children's Books, MeeGenius Partner for Digital Titles

| 02/28/2013 @ 02:00PM

MeeGenius, the digital platform for children's books, has announced a distribution partnership with Random House Children's Books, bringing select titles from popular authors and brands like Richard Scarry, P.D. Eastman, the Berenstain Bears, and Barbie to MeeGenius's two million readers.
Erich Fromm Titles Go Electronic

| 02/27/2013 @ 12:00AM

Open Road is publishing 19 titles from Erich Fromm, including nine titles available now and 11 more starting March 26. On sale now are titles including The Art of Loving, The Art of Being, and The Art of Listening. All titles have a list price of $14.99.
Digital Bright Spot in October

| 02/26/2013 @ 12:00AM

October was a tough month for publishers with only the adult e-book, digital audio and university press segments posting gains among the major categories. Adult e-book sales rose 40.7% in the month at publishers that report to AAP’s StatShot program, with sales hitting $103.7 million.
Indie Booksellers Sue Amazon, Big Six over E-book DRM

by Jim Milliot | 02/20/2013 @ 12:00AM

Three independent bookstores have filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against the big six houses and Amazon charging that by signing agreements that call for the use of DRM on e-books sold through the Kindle, the online retailer and the publishers have combined to restrict the sale of e-books.
Macmillan DoJ Settlement Set for Mid-July Approval

| 02/20/2013 @ 12:00AM

Barring any surprises, the final settlement agreed to by Macmillan with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle alleged e-book price-fixing charges will be in place by early July.
Navigating the World of Wiki: Peter Fitzgerald: Travel Books 2013

By Sarah J. Robbins | 02/16/2013 @ 12:00AM

Wiki-what? We caught up with Wikivoyage administrator Peter Fitzgerald to find out where the nonprofit plots itself in the world of travel publishing.
Little, Brown's NOVL Approach to Reaching Readers Online

By Sally Lodge | 02/12/2013 @ 03:00PM

On Valentine's Day, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will officially launch NOVL, a new online hub for YA book fans.
Kno Launches Advance, a New, Free Multimedia Authoring Platform

By Calvin Reid | 02/12/2013 @ 12:00AM

The race to offer easy-to-use authoring tools for multimedia enhanced e-books continues after Kno announced the release of Kno Advance, a new authoring tool that allows publishers to quickly turn a PDF into multimedia-enriched interactive content and much more.
Inkling Previews Habitat and Inkling Content Display Platform

By Calvin Reid | 02/12/2013 @ 12:00AM

Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis returned to New York to publicly relaunch Inkling Habitat, a free multimedia authoring platform, designed to allow publishers to create multimedia-enriched digital content and distribute it through major etailers, and the Inkling Content Display Platform.
Livrada, E-book Gift Card Company, Gets Seed Funding from Ingram

| 02/11/2013 @ 12:00AM

Livrada, Inc., which launched last year with its e-book gift card venture, announced that it has raised a round of seed funding from ICG Ventures Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, along with Angel investors Thomas Lehrman.
PW Online and On-Air for the Week of February 11, 2013

| 02/11/2013 @ 12:00AM

A snapshop of the PW Universe this week.
Macmillan to Pay $20 Million to Settle State, Class Action Price-Fixing Claims

by Andrew Albanese | 02/09/2013 @ 12:00PM

In a proposed settlement disclosed Friday night, Macmillan has agreed to pay $20 million to settle state claims, and a consumer class action case, led by Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman, over alleged e-book price-fixing.
New Journal Publisher PeerJ Ready to Launch

By Peter Brantley | 02/07/2013 @ 12:00AM

PeerJ runs on an author membership model instead of using a more traditional "author pays" (APC) approach, and its attempt to re-engineer scholarly publishing could dramatically lowers costs for producing and distributing academic articles.
Apple’s iBookstore Debuts Breakout Books Category

By Calvin Reid | 02/06/2013 @ 12:00AM

Stepping up its support of self-published and independently published books, the Apple iBookstore has launched a new category called Breakout Books.
LeapFrog Gets Disney E-books

| 02/05/2013 @ 10:00AM

LeapFrog has announced the release of interactive e-books from Disney Publishing Worldwide as part of LeapFrog's new third-party developer program for its platforms.
Lerner Enhances Interactive Books

| 02/05/2013 @ 12:00AM

Lerner Digital has announced that all Lerner interactive books will include a third audio speed to model pronunciation and fluency while helping beginning readers, struggling readers, and English Language Learners build reading skills and confidence.
Firebrand Technologies Acquires eBook Architects

| 02/05/2013 @ 12:00AM

Firebrand Technologies, a digital publishing services and software vendor, has acquired eBook Architects, an Austin, Tex.-based firm specializing in designing a wide range of e-books and founded by noted digital design expert Joshua Tallent.
The Rise of the Multimedia Authoring Platform

By Rich Shivener | 02/01/2013 @ 07:00PM

Publishers are turning to a new generation of multimedia authoring tools, like iBooks Author, Vook, and Atavist Create, to enhance e-books with audio, video, and animated content.

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