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  • Campus eBookstore Selects Ingram's VitalSource

    Campus eBookstore, Inc. will use Ingram's VitalSource Bookshelf platform to expand and enhance its e-textbook offering to institutional and retail book customers.

  • Livrada Tries Its Luck with E-book Gift Cards

    Livrada is hoping to create a niche for itself in a market that until now has been largely ignored: e-book gift cards. Its goal—to make e-book giving a more personal and streamlined experience—makes sense considering that gift card spending exceeded $100 billion in 2011 and, according to a Bowker PubTrack consumer survey, 14% of books are given as gifts annually.

  • WaPo Teaming With Diversion Books for E-Book Series

    The Washington Post has partnered with Diversion Books, the e-book publisher founded by agent Scott Waxman, to do a series of e-originals.

  • Tracking Amazon: New Kindle Rumors Swirl Around Press Conference

    Amazon has announced it will hold a press conference on September 6 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Speculation is that the company will announce a new Kindle product.

  • DoJ Says Court Should Approve E-book Deal Without Delay

    In a motion made Wednesday, the Department of Justice said arguments made by Apple, Macmillan and Penguin raise no real new issues and therefore asks that the court approve the e-book agreement without further hearings.

  • 1DollarScan Takes Service to Cloud, Authors Guild Worried

    1DollarScan, a service that lets publishers and authors mail work to be digitized and sent back as a PDF, is is fully integrating with Evernote, allowing its scanning service to be utilized in the cloud, but the Authors Guild is worried that the service violates an author's copyright.

  • Open Road to Pub British Erotica Trilogy in North America

    Open Road Media is publishing the British erotic series Eighty Days in North America. The trilogy was published by Orion in the UK in early August and has, per Open Road, become a bestseller and sparked big ticket bids for translation rights.

  • No Delay in Google Case: Chin Affirms Current Schedule; Accepts Library Group Amicus Brief

    In an August 15 order, Judge Denny Chin accepted a joint amicus brief from the Library Copyright Alliance, a coalition of three major library groups, as well as a brief both in support of Google in the Authors Guild vs. Google case.

  • Apple, Publishers File Opposition to Proposed DoJ Settlement

    The first words of its filing say it all: "Apple has not settled with the Government." Within the five-page limit imposed by Denise Cote, Apple yesterday voiced opposition to the government's proposed settlement with three publishers (Hachette, S&S and HarperCollins) in its e-book price-fixing case.

  • Brain Hive Offers On-Demand K-12 E-book Library Lending

    Brain Hive is an on-demand pay-as-you-go e-book lending service offering schools online access to a library of K-12 digital titles. Membership in the service is free, titles are available immediately and libraries and schools are charged $1 for each e-book circulated.

  • BenchPrep Inks New Content Deals; Gets $6M in New Funding

    BenchPrep, an educational software developer specializing in interactive courses for school, college and professional certification, inked new deals with publishers that will add more than 100 courses to its digital platform.

  • New Academia.edu Dashboard Shows Real-Time Impact of Research

    Academia.edu, a social platform for sharing scientific research, is launching an Analytics Dashboard on the site that gives scientists immediate feedback on the level of traffic accessing their content online.

  • Kno Textbook App Now Available for Android, Windows 7

    Educational software developer Kno is extending its textbook app to the Android and Windows 7 operating systems.

  • A Look Around the Digital-First Comics Landscape

    Digital-first comics are released in digital format before they eventually reach print. The majority of digital comics are digitized versions of print comics and digital-first offerings are beginning to represent an alternative, more specific market as publishers begin to treat digital as a complement to print rather than a replacement.

  • Attorney, Music Industry Vet Asks to File Amicus Brief in DoJ Price-Fixing Case

    California attorney and music industry veteran Bob Kohn has asked Judge Denise Cote for permission to file an amicus brief in connection with the DoJ’s price-fixing settlement in order "to correct potentially misleading statements of law contained in the DOJ Response."

  • ALA Releases Report on Library E-book Business Models

    Responding to what it calls "urgent member concerns," the American Library Association's Digital Content & Libraries Working Group released a brief informational report on the e-book market.

  • University of Chicago Press Partners with OUP on E-book Platform

    The University of Chicago Press today has inked and agreement to partner with Oxford University Press to launch Chicago Scholarship Online via OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform.

  • Top Cow Uses Kickstarter to Reboot ‘Cyber Force’

    By the time you finish reading this article, Top Cow Productions may have reached its goal of raising $75,000 on Kickstarter. The partner studio of Image Comics has launched a Kickstarter campaign, asking new and “lapsed” fans to back a project that reimagines its most popular series, Cyber Force.

  • Kno, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Ink K-12 e-Textbook Deal

    Kno, an educational software company that creates interactive digital textbooks for the iPad, is moving into the K-12 school market after announcing an agreement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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