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At Open Road, Backlist Is the New Frontlist
When it comes to digital, the state of the e-book grabs all the headlines. But digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media, the greatest impact technology holds for publishing may be in the way e-books are now marketed. “I’m a huge believer that the entire time you are the publisher of an author’s book, you should be thinking about that author,” explained Open Road’s chief marketing officer Rachel Chou, “and making the most out of every opportunity.”
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Levin’s Artepublishing to Do Enhanced Illustrated Books
This is the most exciting time of my career,” said Hugh Levin, the 40-year publishing veteran who has spent the bulk of his career with illustrated books, including as founder of Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. His new venture, Artepublishing, bridges the traditional (high-quality illustrated books) with the new (iPad) in the form of enhanced, interactive e-books.
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Panel Mania: Ulysses Seen Book Two
Ulysses Seen is the comics adaptation of James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, a masterwork of 20thCentury literature, created by Rob Berry. The excerpt offers the newest completed pages of Ulysses Seen that were debuted on the website of the National Library of Ireland in celebration of this year’s June 16 Bloomsday event
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‘Ulysses Seen,’ and Rob Berry Feted in Dublin on Bloomsday
Robert Berry, artist for Ulysses Seen, an app and online comics adaptation of James Joyce’s 20th Century literary masterpiece Ulysses, is traveling to Dublin for the first time to take part in celebrations that will mark Bloomsday as well Ulysses’s entry into the public domain.
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Kindle Upgrades
Following a software update, Kindle for iPad, Kindle Cloud Reader, and Kindle for Android now support children’s books, comics, and graphic novels, Amazon said this morning. Over 1,000 children’s and comic book titles in full color are now available on Kindle Fire, Kindle for Android, Kindle for iPad, and Kindle Cloud Reader.
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Terry Goodkind to Self-Publish Next Novel
Bestselling fantasy author Terry Goodkind will self-publish his next novel, The First Confessor.
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HC Launches Program to Publish English Language Titles Globally
In a move to make its English language titles available around the globe, HarperCollins has launched a program called HarperCollins 360.
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'Vanity Fair' Publishes 'Sopranos' E-book
Vanity Fair magazine is releasing its fourth e-book, The Sopranos: The Vanity Fair Oral History by Sam Kashner and Jim Kelly, an “unexpurgated” digital edition of the magazine’s April profile of the show’s creator David Chase and cast members.
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JManga's Evolving Digital Subscription Service
JManga launched last August as a digital manga site that would be an online subscription portal to the work of 39 different Japanese publishers. PW Comics World spoke with the site's managers to get an update on its evolution.
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Scholarly Publishing 2012: Meet PeerJ
Over the past decade, the open access movement has grown by leaps and bounds, with increased awareness and a slew of institutional, funder, and government mandates. But the real sign of maturity may be in how the business models associated with open access publishing have evolved. And this week comes a fascinating new entry into the field: PeerJ.
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DoJ Has Received 150 Comments on E-book Case
Explaining that it has received a "voluminous" amount of comments on the e-book price-fixing charges it filed against Apple and five publishers, the Department of Justice has asked Judge Denise Cote to allow the department to bypass print publication of the letters in the Federal Register in favor of posting them online.
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Tech News Site GigaOM Launches GigaOM Books
GigaOM, an online news site focused on technology and media disruption, has launched GigaOM Books, a digital publishing imprint that will specialize in e-books about trends in the developing digital economy.
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Barnes & Noble Urges Court to Reject DoJ’s Price-Fixing Settlement
In comments filed this week in federal court, Barnes & Noble argued that the court should scrap the Department of Justice’s price-fixing settlement with three publishers. “The proposed regulatory provisions of the settlement are not in the public interest,” the brief concludes.
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Wattpad Raises $17.3 Million in New Funding
Wattpad, an online writing community and social reading platform focused on mobile devices, announced that it has raised $17.3 million in new funding.
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Zondervan Launches Direct-to-Digital Imprint
Zondervan, the evangelical Christian publishing division of HarperCollins, has begun a new direct-to-digital imprint. Zondervan First launches with the acquisition of a historical fiction title, Love in Three-Quarter Time by Dina Sleiman.
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AcademicPub: Coursepacks Made Easy
AcademicPub, a division of digital content provider SharedBook, is the latest service to reinvent the coursepack, those formerly unauthorized photocopied anthologies of textbook articles circulated to students. AcademicPub offers quick and easy access to a broad range of content from multiple publishers, on-the-fly permissions, and the ability to upload and add original content. Professors can even grab content off the Web to create quality customized educational anthologies—e-books or print, in color or black and white—at affordable prices.
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Tor/Forge Announces DRM-Free E-book Store
After announcing in April that it would begin releasing its titles DRM-free starting in July, Tor took the next step Monday afternoon saying that also beginning that month its e-books titles will be sold in the Tor/Forge DRM-Free E-book Store.
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Penguin Debuts 3D Landscape Books for iPad
Penguin has partnered with digital publisher Citia to introduce a series of interactive, shareable nonfiction works, starting with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants. The Citia edition will be available for $9.99 in the App Store for the iPad.
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Richard Curtis Signs Major Deal With Audible
Richard Curtis, at his eponymous agency, has signed a deal with Audible to produce over 200 audio titles by his clients.
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