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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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Podcast: PW's Week Ahead for Friday, October 21
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.
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This Week in Children's Apps: October 20, 2011
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.
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Manga at NYCC 2011: Viz, Yen Press, Kodansha, Vertical and 'Homestuck'
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.
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Open Road Launches Iconic Ebooks Imprint with 'Fear of Flying'
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.
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Brad Steiger Starts Scary E-book Compilation Series
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.
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