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News Corp.'s Joel Klein Outlines Plans for Amplify Education Unit
Joel Klein, former New York City schools chancellor, now executive v-p at News Corp. and director of Amplify, its education unit, offered a presentation on Amplify's business model and plans to release hardware and software solutions optimized for a new generation of digitally savvy students and teachers.
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Christopher Etesse Appointed CEO of Flat World Knowledge
Flat World Knowledge has named Christopher Etesse, former CTO of Blackboard Student Services, chief executive officer succeeding Flatworld Knowledge founder Jeff Shelstad.
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'Symbolia,' iPad Journal of Multimedia Graphic Journalism, Debuts Today
Symbolia: The Tablet Magazine of Illustrated Journalism, a digital journal designed for the iPad that specializes in comics and illustrated nonfiction reports, debuts today in the App Store.
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Viz To Begin Simultaneous Manga Publication with Japan in January
Beginning January 21, 2013, Viz Media plans to completely synchronize the publication of Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, its weekly English-language digital manga anthology, with the Japanese-language manga series it publishes.
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Random House Launches New Digital-Only Imprints
Random House announced plans to launch three new digital-only imprints: Alibi, a mystery-thriller line, Flirt, a YA/New Adult list and Hydra, a new science fiction line; in addition to expanding the reach of the Loveswept digital romance imprint.
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ALA Releases Media Kit to Help Libraries Make E-book Case to the Public
The ALA this week released a “media kit” to help librarians take their case for e-books to the people, continuing efforts it kicked off in September to give the simmering e-book issue more public attention.
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Open Road Gives New Life to Dan Gutman Series
Funny Boy, Dan Gutman's superpower-lacking superhero who uses his sense of humor to defeat bad guys, will soon be back on his beat.
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Amazon Brings Vonnegut to Kindle Serial
Amazon Publishing is releasing a collection of never-before-published pieces by Kurt Vonnegut called Sucker's Portfolio.
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39 Clues for Christmas
Scholastic is launching an original e-book, The 39 Clues: Cahill Files: Silent Night, on Christmas Day, following greater-than-expected sales of The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire, a series of original e-books released last Christmas season.
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Comics, Prose, And Digital at Arch Enemy
As publishing conglomerates and technology firms become the dominant forces in an increasingly digital marketplace for the book and comics industries, opportunities are opening for smaller, more nimble independent media companies like Arch Enemy Entertainment.
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Hachette Plans EPub3 Publishing Program Launch
The Hachette Book Group plans to launch an EPub3 program and will begin by releasing 16 titles in the format, an interactivity and multimedia-focused standard for enhanced e-books, between November 2012 and March 2013.
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CourseSmart Expands to the Middle East, Africa
CourseSmart, the digital textbook and course materials outlet, is expanding access to its educational content and e-commerce platform to selected countries in the Middle East and Africa.
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John Wiley Teams with TED to Offer Educational Content
John Wiley has reached an agreement with TED, the nonprofit specializing in spreading discussions on technology, entertainment, design and other subjects, to produce instructional material for TED Studies, 21 collections of curated discussions aimed at the school market and organized under academic subject categories.
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Guideposts Launches E-Shorts Series
Guideposts Books has announced the debut of Spirit Lifters, its new series of short e-books.
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iBooks Author Goes Beyond Textbooks
When iBooks Author, Apple’s multimedia e-book authoring tool, was unveiled in January, it was hailed for how easy it is to use and its ability to create rich, multimedia, and interactive educational content.
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A Small World: The Global E-Book Market Expands
The rise of easy-to-use e-book publishing platforms that distribute globally, the inherent speed of digital publishing, and the low cost and ever-rising demand for e-books in both the developing world, as well as from developed but remote economies like Australia, offer the potential of vibrant new markets as well as new revenue streams to publishers of all kinds.
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2012 Election Quick-To-Market E-Book Releases
Diversion Books has just published a quick-to-market ebook on the 2012 Presidential election by Washington Post senior political correspondent, Dan Balz.
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Ruckus Reader Adds New Titles; Revamped App Coming This Month
Ruckus Media, a multimedia children's entertainment developer, is adding digital titles from five children's publishers to its Ruckus Reader app, a digital bookshelf, retail outlet and early reader learning platform.
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Flatworld Knowledge Eliminates Free Access to Online Textbooks
Arguing that its freemium business model has become unfair to its licensing and retail partners and “a barrier to our long-term growth,” open source textbook publisher Flatworld Knowledge is eliminating free access to its online textbook content.
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Viz To Publish ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ Worldwide November 2
The 13th volume of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's bestselling manga Neon Genesis Evangelion will be published simultaneously worldwide on November 2, not just in Japan and North America but also in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, China, and the U.S. This international manga laydown is the first of its kind



