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Amazon Reports Over 4 Million Kindles Sold in December
With expectations high for both e-reader sales and e-books over the holiday season, Amazon reported today that, as expected, its Kindle was a hot commodity this month, and that e-books sales broke records. The e-tailer reported that over 1 million Kindle devices were purchased per week in December.
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Startup e-Book House Releases Crime Anthology
Michael Wolf, v-p of research at GigaOM, a technology news and analysis blog, has launched Bstsllr.com, an e-book publishing house specializing in crime and mystery fiction.
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B&T to Install Axis 360 Media Library In Washington State
Baker & Taylor has reached an agreement with the King County Library System of Washington State for the first installation of B&T’s Axis 360, a media circulation system for enhanced digital content and Blio, multimedia e-reading software developed in conjunction with KFNB Technologies.
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Hagens Berman Named Lead Counsel in E-book Pricing Suits
Hagens Berman, the first law firm to file an anti-trust lawsuit against most major publishers and Apple alleging conspiracy in fixing e-book prices, has been named the lead counsel in the action.
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PW Goes Behind the Scenes of Ken Bruen’s Open Road Debut
For all the talk about how film can be used to promote books, the industry seems to be struggling to figure it all out. With that in mind, PW recently sat down with Open Road to find out how the company has been using film to promote books.
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Viz Media, B&N Team Up to Offer Manga on Nook Devices
The tablet content wars continue as Barnes & Noble announced a deal with manga publisher Viz Media to bring its Japanese graphic novels to the Nook Tablet and Nook Color devices.
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D&Q Teams with Kobo To Release Digital Graphic Novels
Noted indie Canadian graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly announced an agreement with Canadian e-book retailer Kobo to release two acclaimed graphic works by cartoonist Chester Brown as e-books on the Kobo Vox tablet.
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IDW, Comixology Expand Digital Comics Delivery
IDW Publishing is expanding its relationship with digital vendor Comixology, and the digital comics distributor and developer will now power the IDW comics app, IDW specialty series and a newly launched web digital comics store.
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The Library Alternative
PW contributing editor Peter Brantley on Amazon, libraries and the road ahead.
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Canadian Booksellers Association Links with Google eBooks
The Canadian Booksellers Association links members with Google e-books via campus bookstore partnership.
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INscribe Digital Inks Digital Distribution Deal with L.A. Theatre Works
Digital distributor Inscribe Digital has reached an agreement with L.A. Theatre Works to distribute the nonprofit theatre group’s enhanced e-book content to an international marketplace.
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Authors Guild Files for Class Certification in Google Case
The Google Book Settlement may be dead, but the litigation lives on. On December 12, attorneys for the Authors Guild filed a motion for class certification, hitting the deadline set forth by Judge Denny Chin at a September 15th status conference on the now abandoned Settlement.
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Agency Model Class Actions Consolidated in New York Court
Five class action lawsuits alleging an e-book price fixing conspiracy over the 2010 implementation of the agency model have been consolidated and will be handled in the Southern District on December 9.
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'Scaredy Squirrel' Goes Digital
A partnership between Corus Entertainment's Kids Can Press and Open Road Integrated Media will see the publication of the first two Scaredy Squirrel books in a number of new digital formats.
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Deadline Extended in Class Action Suits Over Agency Model
With multiple class action lawsuits filed this summer against publishers over the 2010 switch to the agency model (some also including Amazon and Barnes & Noble), the matter has been referred to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL Panel) to coordinate and consolidate the cases.
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Amazon Unveils $6 Million 'Fund' to Pull Content Into Its Lending Library
Amazon has unveiled a new program, called KDP Select, designed to woo publishers and authors to participate in its Kindle store, as well as its controversial Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
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Justice Department Says It Is Looking Into E-Book Pricing
The Justic Department is following suit with the European Union, confirming that it, too, is looking into e-book pricing.
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BISG Issues Best Practices For Assigning Digital ISBNs
Looking to address the problem of confusion in the marketplace around product identification, the Book Industry Study Group is publishing a Policy Statement that outlines best practices for assigning ISBNs to digital content.
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Cambridge University Press to Preserve E-books with Portico
Portico and Cambridge University Press have announced an agreement to preserve Cambridge Books Online content with Portico.
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