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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, October 21

| 10/21/2011 @ 12:00AM

Competition heats up in the e-reader/tablet market as Kobo introduces the determinedly "open" Vox reader, built on the Android 2.3 operating system.
This Week in Children's Apps: October 20, 2011

| 10/20/2011 @ 03:00PM

This week in children's apps features two spooky tales. Ghost House follows Charlie O'Dell, a boy who gets on his favorite TV show, only to find out that he doesn't know what his show is really like. Tacky Goes to Camp is about Tacky and his penguin friends having fun at camp, until something pays them a visit in the night.
Manga at NYCC 2011: Viz, Yen Press, Kodansha, Vertical and 'Homestuck'

By Ada Price and Calvin Reid | 10/19/2011 @ 12:00AM

Although Viz Media stole the spotlight at New York Comic Con with news of "near-simultaneous" Japan/U.S. publishing of its new digital weekly, Yen Press made an announcement of its own about a "real simultaneous" dual language publication.
Open Road Launches Iconic Ebooks Imprint with 'Fear of Flying'

| 10/18/2011 @ 12:00AM

Fear of Flying will be the first title in Open Road's new Iconic Ebooks imprint. The e-book, with a new cover and an illustrated biography featuring never-before-seen photos, goes on sale on October 18.
Brad Steiger Starts Scary E-book Compilation Series

| 10/18/2011 @ 12:00AM

Brad Steiger, author of thousands of books and articles on the paranormal, will gather his favorite stories in a new compilation, Real Nightmares: True and Truly Scary Unexplained Phenomena, published by Visible Ink Press for $1.99.
Kodansha Debuts Manga iPad App at New York Comic Con

By Calvin Reid | 10/15/2011 @ 12:00AM

In the latest digital news to come out of New York Comic Con, Kodansha USA Publishing, in conjunction with its distributor Random House Publisher Services, announced plans to release a Kodansha Comics iPad app featuring a selection of the publisher’s manga backlist.
PW Select Fall 2011: E-Book Master Class: PW Talks with Joshua Tallent

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 10/14/2011 @ 12:00AM

If self-publishing is a major part of the future of the publishing business, then its most uncharted region, and the frontier of greatest possibility, is digital self-publishing, where authors can make their own names and sell infinite numbers of books with the help of a handful of increasingly well-established platforms and standards—Amazon, Apple, EPub among them.
Viz Media to Launch Near-Simultaneous Japan/U.S. Digital Manga Weekly

By Calvin Reid | 10/14/2011 @ 12:00AM

In a move that will brings its manga program very close to simultaneous English and Japanese publication, Viz Media plans to launch Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha, a weekly digital serialized manga anthology.
Jackson Fish Market Books Offers Free Downloads

By Wendy Werris | 10/13/2011 @ 03:00PM

Two years after launching the online book service A Story Before Bed, which synchronizes children's books with a video recording capability that allows family members to document and preserve the act of reading books together, Seattle-based Jackson Fish Market Books has announced that its original digital children's books are now available for free downloads.
B&T, Gardner Books Team to Offer Blio

| 10/12/2011 @ 12:00AM

Baker & Taylor is partnering with U.K. wholesaler Gardners Books to offer the wholesaler’s 1000 client-publishers access to Blio, the multimedia-optimized e-book reader developed by KNFB Reading Technologies.
PUP Launches Princeton Shorts, Nonfiction e-Books

| 10/12/2011 @ 12:00AM

Princeton University Press is launching Princeton Shorts, a series of short nonfiction e-books that excerpt chapters from some of press’s best selling and most influential titles.
Shanower’s 'Age of Bronze Seen' App Goes Live for New York Comic Con

By Calvin Reid | 10/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Cartoonist Eric Shanower and Throwaway Horse, the venture behind the graphic adaptations and iPad apps for James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, have teamed up to release an iPad app for Shanower’s Age of Bronze, an award winning comics series that retells the epic story of the Trojan War.
Open Road to Release First Frontlist YA Title

| 10/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Open Road Integrated Media will publish Andrea J. Buchanan’s Gift, which will incorporate triggered events and enhanced content.
Crown to Release E-Series With Political Site RealClearPolitics

| 10/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

Random House's Crown Publishing Group has inked a pact with political Web site RealClearPolitics.com to do a series of e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign.
Amazon Launches French Kindle Store, Device

| 10/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

Among has launched its third overseas Kindle store, opening Amazon.fr in France as well has making available its first French-language Kindle that it will sell for 99 euros.
BookMovement and Open Road Launch E-book Club

| 10/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

BookMovement and Open Road have partnered to launch an e-book club featuring titles from authors like Alice Walker, Natalie Goldberg, Pat Conroy, and Josephine Hart.
SMP Tries Pascal E-Line as Mass Market Alternative

By Rachel Deahl | 10/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

After St. Martin's Press successfully reintroduced author Francine Pascal with March's bestseller Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later, the publisher is testing a new model with her follow-up to that title: an e-serial.
Random House in Transmedia Deal with Blacklight

| 10/05/2011 @ 12:00AM

The Random House Publishing Group and Blacklight Transmedia have formed a partnership to work together to create original transmedia intellectual properties, as well as to coordinate the development of IP from other sources.
Inkubate Plans to Digitize the Slush Pile

By Calvin Reid | 10/05/2011 @ 12:00AM

Currently in beta, Inkubate is an online marketplace and manuscript review site designed to help agents and publishers find and develop writers.

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