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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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Agate Launches Chicago Tribune Ebook Collection
Agate Publishing announced the launch of the Chicago Tribune Ebook Collection, a collaboration with the 165-year-old newspaper.
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'Reflected in You' Sells 286,000 E-books
Berkley reported Thursday that Reflected in You, Sylvia Day’s sequel to Bared to You, sold 286,000 e-books in its first week on sale. Berkley will release a trade paperback edition of Reflected in You October 23 with a first printing of 630,000 copies.
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Amazon Launches Kindle Lending Library in U.K., Germany and France
Amazon has announced that the Kindle Owners' Lending Library is coming to the U.K., Germany and France later this month.
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Children's Digital Publisher StarWalk Launches with 150 E-books
Schools and school libraries, public libraries, teacher education and library science programs are all candidates to subscribe to the new StarWalk Kids collection, which includes Seymour Simon, David Adler, Doug Cushman, Diane deGroat, Johanna Hurwitz, and more.
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PW Launches Redesigned Website
Publishers Weekly has relaunched its Web site using state-of-the-art technology, a more accessible design and easier access to related content throughout the site.
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States Modify Payouts in Price-Fixing Settlement
New payout scheme alters how much publishers will pay out for backlist and non-bestselling frontlist titles to settle price-fixing claims.
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Judge Denies Bob Kohn’s Motion to Intervene in DoJ Settlement; Kohn Appeals
The latest developments in the ongoing e-book price-fixing saga.
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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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