05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Peter Collingridge, cofounder of the digital publishing firms Apt Studio and Enhanced Editions, in addition to Bookseer, a book marketing analytics technology, has been hired as v-p of product development at Safari Book Online.
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Coinciding with its 45th anniversary, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is now available as an e-book from all major retailers, priced at $9.99 for Kindle and Nook. The announcement was made May 15 by Don Weisberg, president, Penguin Young Readers Group.
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
In a decision handed down Tuesday, Judge Denise Cote denied motions by Apple and five publishers seeking to dismiss the class action lawsuit brought against them for what the suit contends is fixing e-book prices when they moved to the agency pricing model.
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
Arthur Klebanoff, head of RosettaBooks, told PW that the titles' inclusion as May 13's Gold Box deal made the increase in sales "stratospheric."
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Stanford University Press has started a digital imprint called Stanford Briefs, which will release short e-originals on a variety of academic topics.
05/10/2012 @ 10:00AM
Amazon has purchased an exclusive license from Pottermore to loan all seven Harry Potter the titles as e-books through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
05/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
ProQuest has unveiled a new on-demand research service called Udini that bundles a wide range of resources, including peer-reviewed academic and trade journal articles, from thousands of participating publishers for use by independent researchers.
05/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
As e-books continue to capture more readers that had read mass market paperbacks, Simon & Schuster is re-launching its Pocket Star mass market line as an e-book only imprint.
05/03/2012 @ 03:00PM
The Poptropica virtual world for kids, created by Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, to promote storytelling with islands based on books like the Magic Tree House and Choose Your Own Adventure, added a social networking component earlier this week.
05/03/2012 @ 12:00AM
Amazon is well known for its efforts to keep prices as low as possible, especially for digital content. As part of its Kindle Direct Publishing contract, authors who want to receive a 70% royalty must not only set the digital book's list price no higher than that of any other print or digital edition in any sales channel, but the digital edition must be at least 20% lower than that of the print edition.
The Roundup for Content / e-books
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