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Library of America Steps Up Its Digital Effort
Launched at the end of 2011, the e-book program of the Library of America has released eight titles so far with plans to publish about two e-books a month for the next year. LOA publisher Max Rudin explained that the nonprofit charged with producing high-quality, beautifully designed editions of the best of American writing took its time to enter the digital market because it needed to make sure it did it right. “Our e-books have to be scrupulously produced, just like our print books, and it’s taken us a while” to find the right partner, Rudin said. That partner turned out to be eBook Architects of Austin, Tex.
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'Leverage' Releases iBookstore Companion Guide
A free companion e-book has been released on the iBookstore to coincide with the beginning of the fifth season of Leverage. The Leverage Season 4 companion book has exclusive content like story documents, pre-visualization, storyboards, and video clips.
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Open Road Partners with Good Books
Open Road Integrated Media is teaming with independent publisher Good Books to produce a variety of digital titles based on Good Books print books. Good Books is best known for its cookbooks and a selection of its bestselling Fix-It and Forget-It cookbooks will be included in the debut digital list this fall.
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Comic-Con: Fantagraphics to Release Love & Rockets e-Books via Comixology
Fantagraphics Books announced an agreement with digital vendor Comixology at the San Diego Comic-con International to release the first four issues of the Hernandez brothers’ Love and Rockets New Stories in digital editions for the iPad.
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Comic-Con: Digital Distribution, Crowdfunding and More Neil Gaiman
Digital distribution continued to make news at the San Diego Comic-con with a a new comics-specific crowdfunding venture from iVerse, digital first titles from Archaia and e-book news from Abrams ComicsArt, Viz Media and digital vendor Comixology.
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SDCC 2012: Abrams ComicsArts Goes Digital with Comixology
Abrams ComicsArts used its panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International to announce an agreement with digital vendor Comixology to begin digital distribution of its graphic novel and graphic nonfiction titles. Abrams ComicsArts will launch its digital program with four full-length graphic novels and one Art book, with more titles to come.
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SDCC 2012: Viz Media Expands Digital Manga to Android Smartphones
Manga publisher and anime distributor Viz Media confirmed plans to expand its digital manga program to the Android operating system for smartphones today at its panel at the San Diego Comic-Con international.
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GEN Manga, Editora Abril Ink Deal for Print Distribution in Brazil
GEN Manga, a print and digital publishing venture specializing in doujinshi, or Japanese self-published and indie manga titles, announced an agreement with Editora Abril to distribute its titles in print in Brazil. Portuguese versions of GEN Manga titles will be available in Brazil beginning this summer.
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Amazon Introduces GameCircle for Kindle Fire
Amazon has introduced GameCircle for Kindle Fire, and released a series of APIs for developers. GameCircle offers gaming customers a series of features like achievements, leaderboards, and sync, meant to add to the social components of gaming on the Kindle Fire.
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Ingram's Vital Source Bookshelf and Blackboard Learn Integrate
Blackboard Inc. and Ingram have agreed to integrate Blackboard Learn and Vital Source, giving students and faculty access to Vital Source's e-textbook platform directly within Blackboard Learn's system. The integration will be available for both online and mobile users.
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OverDrive Establishes Australian Office
OverDrive this week announced the opening of a new office in Melbourne, Australia, in an effort to expand its presence in Australia, New Zealand and throughout the Asia Pacific region. The expansion comes after the acquisition of Booki.sh, the Australian e-book company, in March.
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Content Services 2012: Converting PDFs into E-books
For publishers and content services suppliers, ensuring a smooth and quick PDF-to-ePUB conversion—sans typos and formatting errors—has taken on a new urgency now that e-books are selling so well, and converting print titles into e-books is on top of everybody’s digital agenda.
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Tracking Amazon: The Harry Potter Kindle Question
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is available as an e-book at Amazon only as part of its Kindle Owners' Lending Library, but it still hit #128 in the Kindle bestsellers list.
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New Service Lets O’Reilly Consumers Sync E-books Using Dropbox
O’Reilly Media has teamed with Dropbox.com, a popular cloud storage service, to offer O’Reilly e-book consumers the ability to sync the e-books in their accounts with any digital reading device they may own.
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Tor to Publish New John Scalzi Novel as E-book Serial First
In what the publisher is calling a “unique new project,” Tor Books will publish The Human Division, the next book by bestselling science fiction author John Scalzi, as a weekly serialized e-book, before releasing it as a complete hardcover and e-book.
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Trajectory Focuses on E-books, Children's Content, Global Distribution
Founded in late 2011 by group of digital publishing veterans, Trajectory is a digital publisher and technology developer based in Cambridge, Mass.
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BISG Releases Report on Book Product Metadata
The Book Industry Study Group has published Development, Use, and Modification of Book Product Metadata, a report on how publishers, retailers and other vendors in the digital supply chain create and use metadata.
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As ALA Opens, Pew Issues Report On Libraries and E-Books
The good news, according to a report issued today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, is that 69% of adults say libraries are important to them and their families. The not-so-good news: surprisingly few library patrons are aware of their library's e-book offerings.
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Penguin Launches E-book Library Lending Pilot Program
With the American Library Association annual meeting set to begin later this week, Penguin has announced a pilot program to digitally lend its titles.
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Tracking Amazon: Harry Potter Gets Borrowed
Starting June 19, Amazon.com customers can now borrow all seven Harry Potter books in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL).
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