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Penguin, 3M E-Book Pilot 3M Goes Live
Library vendor 3M announced that its library e-book pilot with Penguin has gone live.
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Sourcebooks Upgrades the Bard with 'The Shakesperience' Digital Editions
Sourcebooks is releasing The Shakesperience, enhanced e-books that exploit the iPad’s touchscreen technology to bring Shakespeare’s plays to life in new ways with a rich selection of carefully chosen multimedia and text content.
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Pearson Offers Early Access To Tech Titles
Pearson is launching Early Edition multiformat e-books, a new service that allows readers to get early access to e-books on hot topics in technology before the finished publication is released.
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ALA Officials Ask for 'Equitable Access to E-books at Fair Prices'
ALA president Maureen Sullivan explained the basis of her open letter on e-books, published this week, noting that the patience invested by librarians in the ALA leadership over the last year has worn thin with no progress on the issue.
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Hachette Reacts to 'Vacancy' E-book Glitch
Problems with the e-book edition of The Casual Vacancy have caused Hachette to issue a statement alerting consumers who bought a digital edition before 3: 00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time September 27 that they should ask the e-tailer they bought the title from to reload the file.
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Black Dog & Leventhal, Open Road Form Partnership
In a deal to bring some of its backlist titles out in digital form, Black Dog & Leventhal has partnered with Open Road Integrated Media.
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OUP, Library Groups Strike Innovative Print/Digital Deal
Oxford University Press (OUP) has struck a deal with the Manhattan Research Library Initiative (MaRLI) and the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) that will deliver monograph content via its University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) e-book program as well as a “shared collection” of print copies of all 2012 published scholarly works.
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Kobo Comes to Portugal
Kobo and leading retailer FNAC have announced a partnership that will offer the first localized reading experience with local reading content in Portugal.
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Google Rolls Out Update to the Google Play Books App
Google announced that is rolling out a host of new features to the Google Play Books App, including a “translation” tool for readers “making their way through books in foreign languages."
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Macmillan Poised to Test Library E-book Model
As big six publishers and librarians prepare for more meetings this week in New York, Macmillan officials confirmed to PW that they have developed a pilot project that would enable e-book lending for libraries—a potentially major development. However, details of the pilot remain undisclosed.
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Comixology Drives the E-comics Market
Comixology, a digital comics distributor and marketplace, marks its fifth anniversary this year as it emerges as the clear leader in the digital comics space. The company’s Guided View technology, a much imitated function on its Comics by Comixology app, which allows readers to read digital comics easily on mobile devices, is widely available across all platforms, including iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and the Web. The company has also made strategic deals with most of the comics industry’s heavyweight publishers, including Marvel, DC, and Image, to help it attain a market share that significantly dwarfs the efforts of its competitors, such as iVerse and Panelfly.
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Back to the Drawing Board: Bob Kohn Files Another Comic Brief in DoJ Case
Unhappy that the court ignored his previous comic strip amicus brief, attorney and RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn doubled down, once again filing his response to the DoJ’s opposition as a comic strip.
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Scholastic's Storia Adds Albert Whitman Books
Scholastic has announced an agreement with Albert Whitman & Company to offer 45 of its books on Storia, the e-reading app for kids.
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Aptara Survey Finds 40% of Trade Houses with E-book Sales Over 10% of Revenue
E-book sales accounted for more than 10% of revenue at 36% of publishers that responded to Aptara’s fourth annual survey of publishers’ e-book operations. According to the survey, conducted in April and cosponsored by PW, 40% of trade houses had e-book sales that accounted for more than 10% of sales.
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Apple, Publishers Subpoena Amazon in Price-Fixing Class Action
If you thought the DoJ settlement process was contentious, the litigation now heating up in the class action lawsuit will likely take things to a new level.
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The Department of Justice E-Book Price-Fixing Case: All Our Coverage
Stay up to date with the Department of Justice e-book price-fixing suit with PW's extensive coverage. Here is an archive of our stories, following the case from the initial investigation to the settlement.
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DoJ, Publishers Urge Court to Deny Kohn’s Attempt to Intervene in Settlement
In its motion opposing attorney and RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn’s motion to intervene in the deal between the government and three publishers, the U.S. Department of Justice said it knows Kohn is against the recently approved price-fixing settlement.
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Court Grants Preliminary Approval to States E-book Deal; Public Hearing Set for February 8
Judge Denise Cote last week granted preliminary approval to a more than $70 million e-book settlement involving 54 U.S. states and territories with a final hearing set for February 8.
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With DoJ Settlement Approved, Pre-Trial Skirmishes Begin for Non-Settling Parties
Following the approval of the DoJ’s price-fixing settlement earlier this month, last week saw filings from Penguin and Apple that make clear a key strategy for the non-settling parties: putting Amazon on trial.
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