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Figment Acquires Inkpop from HarperCollins
Figment, the online writing community for teens and young adults, has purchased Inkpop, a similar HarperCollins initiative.
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Open Road Publishes Its First YA E-riginal
What started as the ghost of an idea for Andrea J. Buchanan, author of the bestselling Daring Book for Girls, has blossomed into an enhanced e-book original from Open Road Integrated Media, the company’s first for teens.
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BISG Report: Book Purchases Up, But Not from Bookstores
Consumers who use e-books are increasing their purchase of books—both print and e-book formats—online and especially through in-app purchasing, and decreasing their use of brick-and-mortar stores, according to the first installment of Volume Three of the Book Industry Study Group's “Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading” survey.
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Tracking Amazon: Lending Library Title Count Tops 100,000
Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library has passed the 100,000 title mark, growing to over 20 times its original size since launching in November 2011.
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Open Road Signs with IPS, Lightning Source
Open Road Integrated Media has signed with Ingram Publisher Services and Lightning Source to distribute print versions of all its E-riginals titles and a select group of other titles.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Skews Toward Fiction
The top 25 bestselling Kindle titles on the afternoon of February 27 included only two nonfiction titles.
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Drag; Drop; Read: Apple's New iBooks Author Format
In early January, Apple released iBooks Author, a groundbreaking drag-and-drop e-book authoring environment that promises to democratize the production of complex, structured books, notably including textbooks. But iBooks Author could also presage something else: the eclipse of open e-book standards.
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Pottermore Books to Be Distributed by OverDrive
OverDrive will manage worldwide hosting and digital fulfillment for libraries for the Harry Potter e-books on Pottermore.
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Fourth Story Media's Lisa Holton Joins Callaway Digital Arts
Callaway Digital Arts announced that Lisa Holton, founder of children’s digital media producer Fourth Story Media and former president of Scholastic trade publishing, has been named v-p of content development.
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Tracking Amazon: Whitney Houston E-books Pop Up
In the days following Whitney Houston's death, a number of Kindle e-books are showing up on Amazon, many of which are foreign language titles.
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Tracking Amazon: Kindle's New #1
Brian Freemantle's thriller Ice Age has moved to the top of the Amazon Kindle charts one day after having been featured in the Kindle Daily Deal. The book, which is a digital-only title from Open Road, was published in September 2011.
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TOC 2012: Safari Books’ Offers Content Access Over Ownership
At TOC’s closing afternoon keynotes, Safari Books CEO Andrew Savikas provided an overview of the trend toward “usage-based” streaming content, a model that is growing in popularity in a variety of media and services.
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TOC 2012: How Copyright Got a Bad Name
William Patry, senior copyright council for Google, feels that copyright is a good thing, it just has a bad name because, like other laws that fall out of favor, it’s being asked to do something it shouldn’t.
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Inkling Debuts Multimedia Publishing Platform at TOC
Inkling has announced the debut of Inkling Habitat, an open authoring tool that enables publishers to create media-rich interactive content for the iPad and Web.
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Children's Book's Earnings Go Toward Building Preschools
uTales, the community-based children's app platform that PW profiled last November, has released their newest title, The Friendship Alphabet.
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Tracking Amazon: A Record Day for Shannon McKenna
Romance writer Shannon McKenna is dominating the Kindle bestseller charts one day after four of her novels were included in the Kindle Daily Deal for $0.99 each.
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Aptara Acquired by iEnergizer
The digital services provider Aptara has been acquired by iEnergizer, an international business process outsourcing company that has offices around the world.
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Skyreader, San Diego Zoo Bring Out New Wiggens Adventures
App developer Skyreader has signed an agreement with the San Diego Zoo that will bring three new e-book adventures starring Wiggens, the precocious Chocolate Labrador puppy, to the App Store beginning spring 2012.
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Pear Jam Books Teams with MyLi.com
New Zealand-based publishing startup Pear Jam Books is teaming with MyLi.com, a U.K.-based online startup e-book and reading site for school children, to release its list of titles to young readers in Britain.
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