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BookRiff Launch Set for October 6

By Leigh Anne Williams | 09/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

BookRiff is slated to launch October 6, with a client list that includes O'Reily Media, harvard Common Press, and Sterling Publishers.
Young Journal 'Asymptote' Takes Literature All Over the World

By Gabe Habash | 09/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

With only three issues under its belt and its fair share of challenges, Asymptote founder Lee Yew Leong remains optimistic that the literary magazine will carve a place for itself in the market.
Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Three New Kindle Models Starting at $79

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 09/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

At a packed press event in New York this morning, Amazon unveiled its long-expected tablet offering, called the Kindle Fire, as well as three new Kindle devices.
Bloomsbury Reader Goes Live

| 09/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

With all eyes on Amazon's new tablet today, a quieter launch has happened for Bloomsbury, which is setting live its new digital imprint, Bloomsbury Reader.
Kobo Pulse Adds Social Functions to Reading Life Platform

By Calvin Reid | 09/27/2011 @ 12:00AM

E-book retailer Kobo is expanding the functionality of Reading Life, the social media reading platform in the Kobo app, with Kobo Pulse, a new feature allowing readers to see and engage in a range of social activity on the page of the book they're reading.
Open Road Adds Uris Titles

| 09/27/2011 @ 12:00AM

Eight titles by Leon Uris are the latest additions to Open Road Media’s e-book list. The company began selling the e-books today, which include the author’s epic Exodus.
Trident Media Launches E-Book Program for its Clients

By Calvin Reid | 09/26/2011 @ 12:00AM

Literary agency Trident Media Group is launching Trident E-Book Operations, a full service e-book publishing program with plans to distribute Trident author e-books directly to both domestic and international e-book retailers.
Digital Publishing: By The Numbers

| 09/23/2011 @ 07:00PM

76: percentage of publishers currently producing e-books...
More Readers, Sales for E-books

| 09/23/2011 @ 07:00PM

There are almost as many e-book surveys as there are digital conferences. Two new surveys released last week provided more information, one on the impact digital readers have had on consumers' reading and book-buying habits, while a second examined the impact of digital publishing on the industry.
F+W Debuts Digital-First Business Imprint F+W Business Now

| 09/23/2011 @ 12:00AM

F+W Media's Adams Media imprint has launched F+W Media Business Now, a digital-first business imprint. Titles will run approximately 75-100 pages and be priced at $7.99.
Demibooks Releases iPad Book Creation App to App Store

| 09/22/2011 @ 12:00AM

Composer is an iPad-based software platform for creating children’s interactive book apps with realistic physics, animation, sounds and visual effects.
Webcast Calls E-book Potential 'Vast'

| 09/21/2011 @ 12:00AM

The latest in the Digital Book World webcast series, Ebooks' Real Impact on the Book Publishing Market: 2009-2011, provided a comprehensive overview of the last few years in digital books as well as gave predictions on the future direction of the market.
Kindle to Be Carried by Office Depot

| 09/20/2011 @ 12:00AM

Office Depot will begin selling Amazon.com's Kindle beginning September 25. The office supply chain reported its second-quarter loss widened as a decline in same-store sales hurt its revenue growth.
Open Road to Release 'Color Purple' in E-Book

| 09/20/2011 @ 12:00AM

Open Road Integrated Media has published three titles by Alice Walker, including the author's bestselling (and arguably most celebrated) work, The Color Purple.
Newest Aptara Survey Charts Changes in E-book Market

By Jim Milliot | 09/20/2011 @ 12:00AM

Aptara Corp.’s third annual e-book survey of book publishers found a rapid increase in sales and title output, especially among trade houses, but questions still need to be resolved about e-readers, formats and standards.
George R.R. Martin Joins Kindle Million Club

| 09/19/2011 @ 12:00AM

George R.R. Martin is the newest author to join the Kindle Million Club. Martin’s most recent novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Dance with Dragons, debuted in the #2 spot on the Kindle Best Seller list and has remained in the Top 50 for more than 100 days.
Open Letter Press's Blog Yields e-Original

| 09/15/2011 @ 12:00AM

A collection of entries from Open Letter Press's blog, Three Percent, which focuses on the independent house's core business, literature in translation, are now going to be available as a $2.99 e-book.
LeVar Burton to Launch RRKidz

By Calvin Reid | 09/14/2011 @ 10:00AM

LeVar Burton, actor/entertainer and host and executive producer of PBS’s longtime reading show, Reading Rainbow, is launching RRKidz, a line of interactive digital titles.
Facing Tough App Market, Sideways Looks to ePub3 Standard

By Calvin Reid | 09/13/2011 @ 12:00AM

Faced with poor sales and lack of publisher investment, Sideways, a multimedia developer for iOS and other mobile platforms, has reduced staff and is working to refocus its business model on developing multimedia products based on the new ePub3 standard.
Omar Tyree Self-Pubs New Serialized E-Novel

By Diane Patrick | 09/09/2011 @ 12:00AM

Bestselling African American novelist Omar Tyree is experimenting with technology, self-publishing his latest novel, Corrupted, a feverish portrayal of power and ambition in the book industry, as a serialized Kindle edition e-book, releasing a chapter every week.

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