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This Week in Apps: July 8, 2011
This week in apps features a royal princess adventure complete with toys and animals--Princess Baby lets players pick one of four characters to give the royal treatment. Also this week, Into the Snow: A Stella and Sam Adventure comes to digital platforms after becoming a bestselling children's book. Players follow Stella, Sam, and their dog Fred as they search for their toboggan.
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Boston Globe Republishes Three Whitey Bulger Reports as E-Singles
The Boston Globe is republishing three of its special investigative reports on James J. “Whitey” Bulger as e-singles available on Kindle, Nook and iTunes. All three e-books are available for $2.99.
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Harper Children's Books Debuts Digital 'I Can Read' Series
HarperCollins Children's Books is teaming with both the Apple iBookstore and Barnes & Noble's Nook Bookstore to launch digital editions of its popular I Can Read early reader series. Harper will set up I Can Read digital boutiques at each online store, launching with 80 titles with plans for more to come.
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Broadside Books Experiments with Original E-books
Broadside Books, the HarperCollins imprint launched in January with a focus on conservative nonfiction, has already taken its fair share of risks in its short history, none more so than its decisions on the digital front. In April, Broadside launched its original e-book series Voices of the Tea Party, single-subject "pamphlets," each about 5,000 words and priced at $1.99. According to Adam Bellow, editorial director of Broadside, launching the e-book–only series has come with lessons, both good and bad.
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This Week in Apps: July 1, 2011
This week in apps features an opera-loving hippo named Hildegard in a game that lets players help her get her voice back through games and activities. Also this week is an app based on the picture book The Heart and the Bottle, formerly a bestselling app in the U.K., and now featuring the voice of Helena Bonham Carter in the U.S. version.
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Ingram Acquires VPG Integrated Media
The Ingram Content Group has expanded its digital textbook offerings with the acquisition of VPG Integrated Media, an interactive textbook producer based in Boston, Mass.
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Thomas Nelson Releases Apps Based on Best-Selling Devotional Titles
Thomas Nelson Gift Books has announced a line of apps for their bestselling devotionals. The first apps in the launch include the platinum selling devotional Jesus Calling and Max Lucado’s newest devotional Live Loved.
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Twitter and Publishing: How the Industry is Faring
Here is a listing of over 75 imprints and their Twitter feeds. The list is meant to be a table of publishers of varying sizes and in a full range of categories.
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This Week in Children's Apps: June 30, 2011
This week in children's apps features an opera-loving hippo named Hildegard in a game that lets players help her get her voice back through games and activities. Also this week is an app based on the hit children's book The Heart and the Bottle, formerly a bestselling app in the U.K., and now featuring the voice of Helena Bonham Carter in the U.S. version.
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Hachette Teams with Essential Accessibility to Help Disabled Readers
The Hachette Book Group is teaming with Essential Accessibility, a turn-key online tool developed to help the disabled community easily access online content. Essential Accessibility software gives disabled people access to a variety of special keyboard shortcuts, hands-free activation and speech recognition functionality.
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DGLM Elaborates on Plan to Rep Self-Published Authors
After announcing on its blog yesterday that it would be working its clients through the digital self-publishing process, literary agency Dystel & Goderich has gotten publishing insiders buzzing.
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Open Road to Publish Bedford Square in North America
After agency Ed Victor Ltd. announced it was going to start a publishing arm called Bedford Square Books, the British company has made it official that Open Road Integrated Media will be publishing its titles digitally in North America.
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Pan Macmillan to Launch Digital-Only Imprint, Macmillan Compass
U.K. publishing house Pan Macmillan announced plans to launch Macmillan Compass, a new digital only publishing imprint. While the new imprint will release e-books for all formats and distribution will be through Pan Macmillan’s established channels, it has not been determined as yet if the e-titles will be available for sale in the U.S.
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Pottermore: Interesting But Not a Game Changer
Many people who work in publishing think that as interesting as Pottermore is, the endeavor says less about the future of the book business than it does about the singular status of a very wealthy author who has the inclination and means to build her own brand.
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B&T Launches Axis 360 Library Media Platform at ALA
In New Orleans for the annual American Library Association Conference, Baker and Taylor announced plans to roll out its Axis 360 digital media circulation and management platform, a new procurement system that allows librarian to order both physical and digital content--including Blio, Ray Kurzweil's multimedia e-reading software--from a single source.
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This Week in Apps: June 24, 2011
This week in apps offers two well-known children's books: Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! gets a digital version, complete with the ability for the player to follow the author through his legendary story; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star comes to tablets with 3D images that can be turned and tilted, with a narration of the classic poem in more than five languages.
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This Week in Children's Apps: June 23, 2011
This week in apps offers two well-known children's books: Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! gets a digital version, complete with the ability for the player to follow the author through his legendary story; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star comes to tablets with 3D images that can be turned and tilted, with a narration of the classic poem in more than five languages.
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Book Summit in Toronto Offers App Advice
Book Summit 2011, held in Toronto on June 17, focused the attention of 200 or so industry professionals on digital publishing and extensions of books, particularly the potential and pitfalls of apps.
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