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Tracking Amazon: Kindle Skews Toward Fiction

| 02/28/2012 @ 12:00AM

The top 25 bestselling Kindle titles on the afternoon of February 27 included only two nonfiction titles.
Drag; Drop; Read: Apple's New iBooks Author Format

By Peter Brantley | 02/27/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Pottermore Books to Be Distributed by OverDrive

| 02/27/2012 @ 12:00AM

OverDrive will manage worldwide hosting and digital fulfillment for libraries for the Harry Potter e-books on Pottermore.
Fourth Story Media's Lisa Holton Joins Callaway Digital Arts

By Calvin Reid | 02/22/2012 @ 10:00AM

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.
Tracking Amazon: Whitney Houston E-books Pop Up

| 02/17/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Tracking Amazon: Kindle's New #1

| 02/16/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
TOC 2012: Safari Books’ Offers Content Access Over Ownership

By Calvin Reid | 02/16/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
TOC 2012: How Copyright Got a Bad Name

By Gabe Habash | 02/15/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Inkling Debuts Multimedia Publishing Platform at TOC

| 02/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Children's Book's Earnings Go Toward Building Preschools

| 02/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

uTales, the community-based children's app platform that PW profiled last November, has released their newest title, The Friendship Alphabet.
Tracking Amazon: A Record Day for Shannon McKenna

| 02/13/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Aptara Acquired by iEnergizer

| 02/13/2012 @ 12:00AM

The digital services provider Aptara has been acquired by iEnergizer, an international business process outsourcing company that has offices around the world.
Skyreader, San Diego Zoo Bring Out New Wiggens Adventures

| 02/13/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Pear Jam Books Teams with MyLi.com

By Calvin Reid | 02/13/2012 @ 12:00AM

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.
Tracking Amazon: 'Artificial Epidemics' Hits Kindle Singles

| 02/10/2012 @ 12:00AM

Last week PW reported on digital short-form publisher Now and Then Reader, and this week the Kindle Singles charts has its first title from the company.
Penguin Severs Ties with OverDrive

By Calvin Reid | 02/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

Penguin is terminating its contract with OverDrive, the library digital vendor, and starting February 10 will cease to offer any of its e-books or audiobooks to libraries.
E-textbooks on the Cusp?

| 02/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

BISG’s Making Information Pay for Higher Ed Publishing showed that textbooks have much in common with other sectors in publishing when it comes to digital: the tools and technology are there, publishers just have to figure it out and harness it.
Six Lit Agencies Sign with Perseus' Argo Navis

| 02/08/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Perseus Books Group has added six more literary agencies to its Argo Navis Author Services program.
Ravenous Romance Expands Into Thrillers

| 02/07/2012 @ 12:00AM

Ravenous Romance, the e-book erotic fiction publisher owned by Literary Partners Group, has made the jump to thrillers with the launch of Ravenous Shadows, with John Skipp on board as editorial director.

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