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Argo Navis Adds Three Agenices

| 06/04/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Perseus Books Group's digital distribution platform for authors, Argo Navis, has signed three new literary agencies.
R&L, NBN Ink E-book Deal with 3M Cloud Library

| 06/01/2012 @ 12:00AM

Rowman & Littlefield and its sister company, distributor National Book Network, have a deal with 3M Library Systems to offer content via the company’s 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Servic
BiblioCrunch Relaunches with E-book Services Marketplace

By Calvin Reid | 06/01/2012 @ 12:00AM

After retooling its business model, BiblioCrunch, a free DIY e-book production and distribution platform, is being relaunched with a new e-book production and editorial services marketplace.
Publishers, Apple Fire Back at DoJ, Class Action

| 05/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

In separate responses made public this morning Apple, Penguin and Macmillan all denied the allegations made against them in a class action lawsuit that charges them with price fixing when the agency model was put in place to sell e-books. The two publishers also denied similar charges leveled against them by the Department of Justice; Apple denied the charges in an earlier filing. Look for details of the filings in a special PW Daily later today.
OverDrive to Launch Browser-based e-Book Reader

| 05/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

E-book distributor OverDrive has announced plans to launch a new HTML5-based, browser-based e-book reader. The reader, dubbed “OverDrive Read” will enable readers to access OverDrive e-books using standard web browsers, without having to download any software or apps.
Medallion To Debut TREEbook, a New Time-Triggered E-book Format

By Calvin Reid | 05/29/2012 @ 12:00AM

Developed by the Medallion Media Group, TREEbook is an innovative new e-book format that features an underlying time-triggered reading experience that allows the book to generate multiple story-lines based on individual reading pace and other embedded triggers.
Vintage Pushing New Capote Paperbacks With New E-book Editions

| 05/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

To promote new paperbacks editions of Truman Capote's backlist, Vintage has released the author's famous novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's, in e-book for the first time.
Trajectory Releases Classic Illustrated Digital Comics on Kobo

By Calvin Reid | 05/23/2012 @ 12:00AM

After announcing it will release more than 120 Classics Illustrated comics as e-books on the Apple platform, Trajectory is now releasing the line through the Kobo e-bookstore and the 7-inch Kobo Vox tablet e-reader.
Virtual Picture Book World Magic Town Launches

| 05/18/2012 @ 10:00AM

Magic Town, the virtual children's picture book world featuring over 70 stories (with many more to come) from major publishers like Hachette and Simon & Schuster, has launched its Web site, with an app for the iPad and then the iPhone to follow soon.
Court Rejects Motions to Dismiss Class Action Against Apple, Publishers

By Jim Milliot | 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.
'The Outsiders' Comes to E

| 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.
Peter Collingridge To Join Safari Books Online

By Calvin Reid | 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.
Tracking Amazon: Mother's Day, Kindle Daily Deal Boost 20 RosettaBooks Titles

| 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."
Stanford University Press Launching Digital Imprint

| 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.
Harry Potter Joining Kindle's Lending Library

| 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.
Pocket Star to Be E-book Only

| 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.
ProQuest Launches On-Demand Service for Researchers

| 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.
Kids Connect on Poptropica

By Judith Rosen | 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.
Tracking Amazon: The KDP 20% Clause

| 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.
Tracking Amazon: Coelho E-books Dropped to $1, Skyrocket

| 05/02/2012 @ 12:00AM

Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist and recent supporter of piracy, has come to an agreement with his publisher HarperCollins to drop the prices of 11 of his books (not including The Alchemist) to $0.99.

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