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  • Roald Dahl Comes to E

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and several other Roald Dahl classics will be published as e-books by Puffin for the first time in the U.S. on September 13, Roald Dahl’s birthday.

  • John Wiley Inks Interactive Textbook Deal with Kno

    Continuing to add content from a growing list of textbook publishers, Kno, an educational software developer that creates digital textbooks for the iPad, reached an agreement to produce interactive versions of higher education textbooks from John Wiley & Sons’ Global Education division.

  • NBC Publishing Relaunches ‘The Message’ as E-Book, School Resource

    Writer Felicia Pride has big plans for an updated and revised e-book version of her popular 2007 title The Message: Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs, re-released in August by NBC Publishing.

  • HarperCollins Reaches New E-book Agreements

    HarperCollins is the first of the three "settling publishers" to reach deals with e-tailers over e-books prices saying it has reached agreements that “are consistent with the final judgment.”

  • New Report on Digital Publishing Startups From BlueLoop Concepts

    "The E-Book Platform Landscape" is a newly released, concise report on the growth of digital publishing, the ever-increasing number of digital startups and the market trends surrounding them.

  • Resistance Begins as Bob Kohn Files Motion to Stay Approval of DoJ Settlement

    Attorney and RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn today filed two motions: one to intervene in the DoJ’s settlement with three publishers for the purposes of an appeal, and one seeking an immediate stay of the Settlement pending an appeal to the Second Circuit.

  • Federal Judge Approves Settlement in DoJ E-Book Case

    Approval of the settlement had been widely expected. Still, the timing took the industry by surprise; the final decree comes less than five months after the Department of Justice first announced its action, and one week after the three publishers struck a more than $70 million deal to settle state price-fixing claims.

  • Federal Judge Denise Cote Approves DoJ E-Book Settlement

    In a stunning development, federal judge Denise Cote today approved the DoJ’s settlement with publishers over alleged e-book price-fixing—just a day after U.S. attorneys asked the court to forego a hearing and approve the deal. The decision is dated September 5.

  • U.S. Attorneys Are Not Impressed By Bob Kohn’s Comic Brief

    In a supplemental reply addressing amicus briefs filed by the Authors Guild and attorney Bob Kohn, who made headlines this week by submitting a five-page comic brief, U.S attorneys have urged Judge Denise Cote to “enter the proposed Final Judgment" in the e-book price-fixing case "without further hearing.”

  • Playboy Strikes Amazon Exclusive for Interview Collection

    Playboy is releasing a collection of 50 interviews, exclusively through Amazon, called "50 Years of the Playboy Interview." The collection will be released as single interviews, priced at 99 cents each, over a 50-day period.

  • A Work of Art: Bob Kohn Submits DoJ Amicus Brief as Comic Strip

    For those in publishing who have followed the DoJ price-fixing case, it has from the start seemed like a cartoonish affair. Now, thanks to former music executive and RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn, it is a cartoon. Handcuffed by the court’s decision to re-file his argument against the DoJ’s settlement with three publishers in just five pages, Kohn filed the brief in the form of a comic strip.

  • Taking Storytelling Digital

    Eli Horowitz does not think of himself as someone who “fetishizes the book.” But he’s also seen what books become, in digital form, and has not always been impressed. A former managing editor and publisher at McSweeney’s, Horowitz describes much of what he has seen in the digital revolution in book publishing as merely “taking nice books and making them slightly uglier.” Hoping to do something more interesting, and attractive, than merely digitizing a print book for e-reading, Horowitz, with two partners, launched Ying Horowitz & Quinn, a kind of transmedia shop that, at its core, he said, is interested in “finding new ways to tell stories.” Its first major project, a story that unfolds in segments through an app, will launch in October.

  • Checks, or Credit: The Broad Strokes of the States’ E-book Settlement

    More details have emerged concerning the deal to settle e-book price-fixing claims between 54 states and U.S. territories and HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster.

  • Three Publishers Agree to $69 Million State Deal

    The Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a $69 million agreement that will resolve lawsuits brought by 54 attorney generals from 49 states, the District of Columbia and territories, that charged the publishers with fixing e-book prices.

  • 'Fatal Vision' Comes to E

    Signet has released the e-book edition of Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss.

  • Court Will Allow More Five Page Amicus Briefs in E-book Case

    In a mixed ruling, Judge Denise Cote will allow the Authors Guild, along with Royalty Share founder and music industry veteran Bob Kohn, to submit amicus briefs in connection with the DoJ’s price-fixing settlement.

  • Springer Expands Open Access Program to E-books

    Springer announced this week that it has expanded its open access (OA) publishing program to include a full open access option for e- books.

  • Barnes & Noble Debuts My Little Pony Collection for Nook

    Hasbro and Barnes & Noble have launched 11 My Little Pony e-book editions exclusively for the Nook Tablet and Nook Color. The titles, marking the first time any Hasbro properties have been available for the Nook platform.

  • Kindle-Exclusive E-books Cross 100 Million Downloads

    Amazon has announced that its catalog of 180,000 exclusive Kindle books have been downloaded or borrowed more than 100 million times.

  • PUP Enticing Readers With Free E-Chapter

    For its forthcoming book about the presidential election (and the data that documents voter behavior during it), Princeton University Press is offering a free sample of John Side and Lynn Vavreck's book, The Gamble.

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