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Seven More Clues, from The 39 Clues
Over the holidays, Scholastic will launch its first original e-book series based on the 39 Clues franchise with The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire.
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uTales Makes the Case for a Community-Based App Space
uTales, the online world of picture books for children, does things a little differently. Instead of getting titles into the app sphere on an app-by-app basis, Swedish-based uTales runs its operations under an umbrella of community.
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Could Amazon’s Lending Library End in Court?
As more information has come to light about the Lending Library program Amazon launched last week, the tenor in the industry has shifted from one of puzzlement to anger.
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Four Colour Print Group Launches MyTabletBooks
In another example of a printer creating a new venture in response to the growth of digital books, Louisville-based Four Colour Print Group has formed MyTabletBooks.com. The new division will convert illustrated print books into e-books which can be sold from the MyTabletBooks.com site.
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Hachette Gets Gold Certification From BISG
Hachette has won the Book Industry Study Group's gold certification, an honor that the organization gives out after its annual review of metadata, through its Product Data Certification Program. The award honors companies which have the most complete metadata associated with their titles.
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Books24x7: Professional Books Go Digital
Given e-books’ recent growth in the trade, professional books are clearly ahead of the digital curve. Books24x7 was one of the earliest companies in the professional e-book space, licensing and repackaging e-books for IT professionals on a subscription basis for nearly two decades. A subsidiary of SkillSoft since 2001, Books24x7 was founded in 1994 in Norwood, Mass., specifically “to offer powerful, easy-to-use electronic publishing products that take advantage of the familiar book metaphor,” according to an early mission statement. Over the intervening years, as e-books and ways of staying connected have evolved, so has the company.
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Consortium Launches Weekly Twitter Chat
Consortium Sales & Distribution, which distributes titles from more than 100 companies, has launched a weekly 30-minute Twitter Chat hosted by its three-member marketing department, in which participants can discuss issues of particular interest to independent publishers.
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Vook White Paper Tackles Common E-Book Formatting Errors
Vook has outlined 5 common e-book formatting errors.
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Amazon Launches Lending Library Without the Big Six
As rumored for months, Amazon is getting into the digital book lending business, announcing the launch of Kindle Owners Lending Library for Amazon Prime members. But there’s a hitch; none of the big six publishers are involved in the program.
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Google eBookstore Opens in Canada
The Google eBookstore has launched in Canada, selling books from the large publishing multinational houses and some Canadian independent houses. More to come, says Google.
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Bowker Back Online After Nor'easter Causes Outage
After the storm that hit parts of the East Coast on Saturday left ISBN provider Bowker without power, the company is reporting that its systems are back online.
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Graphicly Offers Comics via Facebook, Apple’s Newsstand and More
Digital comics distributor and software vendor Graphicly has launched a Facebook app offering Facebook users access to a complete list of its comics; released a widget offering access via blogs and websites and debuted on Apple’s Newsstand, a new iOS5 service that allows subscriptions and automatic downloads for monthly comics and other periodicals.
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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead 10.28.11
The news section features a look at a Library Journal study on the role of libraries and e-books and books. The reviews section again has an international flavor. In nonfiction, there is an interview with Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing, an exposé about bar dancers in Mumbai. There's also a mystery Q&A with Colin Cotterill, author of Slash and Burn, the eighth and final of his Laotian mysteries.
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Hyperink: Publishing Startup Offers Short Focused Nonfiction e-Books
Hyperink, a San Francisco-based publishing startup focused on producing short nonfiction e-books on targeted topics, is launching a broader beta version of their publishing platform today.
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U.K. Publishers Ink Retail Deal with Social Reading Site
Anobii, a book and reading social networking venture that allows readers to post their books online as well as rate and post reviews, has signed retail partnerships with ten of the U.K.’s biggest publishers.
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Penzler Brings Mysterious Press Online
Otto Penzler, the well-known bookseller at the Mysterious Bookshop and former publisher of the mystery line Mysterious Press, has launched a digital publishing venture in MysteriousPress.com.
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Viz Media To Launch SuBLime, Digital/Print Yaoi Line in December
Viz Media is partnering with Japanese anime/manga retailer Animate and Yaoi publisher Libre Publishing, to launch SuBLime, a new manga graphic novel line specializing in Yaoi or Boys Love, that will release titles in digital and print formats beginning in December.
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Greenleaf Switches to Digital Catalogs with Edelweiss
Greenleaf Book Group is the latest publisher to sign on with Above the Treeline’s Edelweiss digital catalog service to replace print catalogs for its Greenleaf Book Group Press and Emerald Book Company lines. The company’s most recent catalogs will be available in both print and Edelweiss digital formats, with next season’s catalogs available exclusively through Edelweiss.
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University of California Press in E-Book Partnership with Oxford
The University of California Press is partnering with Oxford University Press to launch California Scholarship Online/CALSO on OUP’s recently-launched University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform.
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