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STM Subscription Service Knovel.com Looks to 2013
Knovel.com, an online reference service primarily used by engineers, is heading into 2013 after a year of growth with plans to offer an improved user experience, new content, new tool sets and services and more fully integrate its database offerings into client networks.
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Penguin V-P Self-Publishes Interactive Novel
Much like many other authors these days, Jeff Gomez, a published novelist and nonfiction author in addition to working as v-p, online consumer sales and marketing, at Penguin USA, decided to self-publish his new book.
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Amazon Launches U.K. Kindle Singles Store
Amazon is bringing its Kindle Singles storefront to Europe. The company has launched its Kindle Singles Store at Amazon.co.uk, offering stories between 5,000 and 30,000 words to customers there.
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Candlewick Launches in iBookstore
Candlewick has announced that it will begin selling books on Apple's iBookstore. A selection of the company's picture books is now available.
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Penguin Settles with DoJ; Terms Will Apply to Merged Company
In a move that had been expected since the announcement of the Penguin, Random House merger, Penguin Group (USA) has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice in the government's e-book pricing lawsuit. Terms are nearly identical to agreements reached with Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins, but according to the government, if the Random House-Penguin merger is approved the newly formed company must abide by the agreement.
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Ruckus Media Debuts New Ruckus Reader App
The new Ruckus Reader app will launch with about 100 interactive titles, readalong e-books and videos and offers publishers a combination distribution channel, retail marketplace and digital reading/consuming software.
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Ebrary Expands Non-English Offerings
E-book provider ebrary has announced that is expanding its non-English language offerings with a new e-book subscription database—the ebrary Nordic Collection—as well as the addition of recently acquired content from a handful of German publishers.
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Baker & Taylor Expands Collection Management Team
Baker & Taylor this week announced that it has expanded its collection management with new staff and a new facility in Crystal Lake, Ill.
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Rosetta Releasing Arthur C. Clarke Collection
E-book publisher RosettaBooks is publishing digital editions of 35 titles by iconic science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke.
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Apple's iBookstore: Top Selling Titles of 2012
Apple’s iBookstore has released its “Best of” listings for 2012 including a listing of the top selling e-books of 2012. Here's a listing of the top ten paid fiction and nonfiction titles, paid audiobooks and top 10 free e-books at the iBookstore.
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European Commission Settles with Apple, Publishers
The European Commission has finally completed its investigation into the e-book pricing policies of five publishers and Apple, reaching deals with Apple and four of the houses.
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Dave Sim Brings Cerebus into the Digital Age
In November, Diamond Digital, the digital comics program of Diamond Comic Distributors, began releasing all 25 chapters of Cerebus: High Society, the second volume of Dave Sim’s (and artist Gerhard’s) groundbreaking self-published graphic novel series, on a weekly basis that will continue through March 2013. This is the latest of several publishing moves around Sim and the Cerebus series.
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Nook Expands Video Content in U.K.
New licensing partnerships with content providers like BBC Worldwide, HBO, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, STARZ, and Warner Bros. have been announced for Nook Video customers in the U.K.. The deals offer films and TV shows.
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New E-book House, Riverdale Avenue Books, to Launch in December
Veteran literary agent and publisher Lori Perkins is teaming with former Alyson Books publisher Donald Weise to launch Riverdale Avenue Books, a multi-imprint e-book and audiobook publisher set to launch December 17 with two nonfiction titles.
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Open Road Launches Digital Distribution Service
Open Road has formed a digital distribution service, Open Road Distribution, which will offer authors, agents and independent publishers the ability to digitize their entire catalogues of published books. The service will be powered by Ingram and will begin in January 2013.
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Top Cow, iVerse Media Offer Free Digital Comics Previews
Digital content distributor Iverse Media is teaming with comics publisher Top Cow to offer fans free access to several Top Cow series recently relaunched with new storylines. Top Cow's "Try 'em Before you Buy ‘em Program," is giving out redemption codes that will let fans preview the comics free of charge.
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Amazon Launches Brazil Kindle Store
Amazon has launched the Brazil Kindle store with over 1.4 million books, including 13,000 Portuguese-language books, 49 of 60 Veja bestsellers. The Kindle device will go on sale in the coming weeks for R$299.
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Hachette Book Group Implements New E-book Agreements
Hachette Book Group's new agreements are now being adopted by its e-book agents. Terms are confidential, but in keeping with the settlement with the Department of Justice, agents are free to discount individual titles.
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Amazon Creates Subscription Service Targeted at Kids
Amazon has unveiled Kindle Free Time Unlimited, a subscription service targeted at kids between three and eight.
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