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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
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Indie Authors Chart DIY Course at Annual Self-Publishing Book Expo
“Self-publishing changed my life.” That was Bella Andre’s message to aspiring authors in a keynote that kicked off the Self-Publishing Book Expo Saturday at the Sheraton in New York City.
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The Face on the E-Book: A Janie Electronic Sampler
Caroline B. Cooney's bestselling thriller series, which began back in 1990 with The Face on the Milk Carton, is set to come to an end with the arrival of the fifth and final book, Janie Face to Face, in January 2013.
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Brain Hive Adds New Publishers to Lending Service
Brain Hive, a pay-as-you-go e-book lending service for K-12 school libraries that launched in August, is adding new publishers' titles to its e-books lending library collection.
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Atwood, Alderman Team Up to Publish Zombie Serial on Wattpad
Wattpad, the online writing community, is publishing The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home, a collaborative work of fiction produced by acclaimed Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood and emerging U.K.-based author Naomi Alderman, who wrote alternating chapters of the comic zombie novel.
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Majority of Young Readers Still Use Libraries
Some 80% of Americans ages 16-29 have read a book in the past year, and 6 in 10 say they have used their local public library, according to a survey report released today by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
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Harlequin Motion Seeks Dismissal of Class Action Lawsuit
Attorneys for Harlequin have filed a motion to dismiss the class action lawsuit filed this summer by three authors who charged that they had not received full royalties on e-books for works that were originally signed between 1990 and 2004.
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Akashic Digits Promotion Offers E-book Excerpts, Discounts
Brooklyn independent publisher Akashic Books is launching Akashic Digits, a digital promotional effort that will offer free extended e-book excerpts of Akashic titles each month.
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Amazon Makes Major Push into Schools with Whispercast
Looking to broaden the reach of Kindle devices, and Amazon-purchased content for them, Amazon announced the launch of Whispercast, a new venture that allows organizations to distribute and centrally manage the deployment of multiple Kindle devices, and the content to those devices.
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Shadow Gang Debuts Galahad Transmedia Content Distribution Platform
The Shadow Gang, an interactive entertainment studio, announced plans at the StoryWorld Conference + Expo in Los Angeles to launch Galahad, a multi-platform, multimedia content distribution engine designed to produce and support a new generation of transmedia projects.
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Humble Ebook Bundle Rumbles Along
With a week to go before it closes out, the Humble Ebook Bundle has sold over 63,0000 bundles and made some $847,000 for its authors and for charity. The bundle, curated by bestselling author and PW contributing editor Cory Doctorow, is the first foray into e-books for the Humble Bundle.
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Open Road in Deal with Place Des Editeurs
Open Road Integrated Media has signed a deal with French publisher Place Des Éditeurs to digitize, distribute, and market English-language editions of titles from Place Des Éditeurs’ catalog in North America beginning in 2013.
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