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Kodansha Debuts Manga iPad App at New York Comic Con
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.
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PW Select Fall 2011: E-Book Master Class: PW Talks with Joshua Tallent
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.
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Viz Media to Launch Near-Simultaneous Japan/U.S. Digital Manga Weekly
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.
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Jackson Fish Market Books Offers Free Downloads
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.
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B&T, Gardner Books Team to Offer Blio
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.
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PUP Launches Princeton Shorts, Nonfiction e-Books
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.
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Shanower’s 'Age of Bronze Seen' App Goes Live for New York Comic Con
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.
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Open Road to Release First Frontlist YA Title
Open Road Integrated Media will publish Andrea J. Buchanan’s Gift, which will incorporate triggered events and enhanced content.
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Crown to Release E-Series With Political Site RealClearPolitics
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.
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Amazon Launches French Kindle Store, Device
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.
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BookMovement and Open Road Launch E-book Club
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.
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SMP Tries Pascal E-Line as Mass Market Alternative
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.
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Random House in Transmedia Deal with Blacklight
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.
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Inkubate Plans to Digitize the Slush Pile
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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Adobe Teams with WoodWing to Develop for Tablets
Adobe has teamed with WoodWing Software, a multi-channel software and app developer, to integrate the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite into WoodWing’s Enterprise Publishing System to create a single, cross-media workflow solution for tablet devices.
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Oxford University Press Offers its E-Book Platform to University Presses
After Oxford University Press launched Oxford Scholarship Onlin in 2003, the press is ready to share the successful platform.
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Perseus Partnering with Lit Agencies for E-books
With more literary agencies offering e-book publishing services to their authors, the Perseus Books Group has launched Argo Navis, a new unit that will handle digital distribution and marketing for authors who want to self-publish titles and who are represented by established agents.
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Gaiam Releases 16 New E-books Using VookMaker
Gaiam, Inc. and Vook, announced the release of 16 new yoga eBooks published with VookMaker, the e-publishing platform. Using VookMaker, Gaiam is empowered to produce and monetize hundreds of e-books from their vast library of content.
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Red Wheel Weiser Launches E-Line with Out-of-Print Stories
Red Wheel Weiser is doing a new series of e-book originals, featuring out-of-print stories. The publisher is planning on releasing 10 e-originals, ranging in price from $2.99 to $9.99, on October 25.
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