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Gantec Publishing Launches e-Book Conversion, Distribution Service
Gantec Publishing Solutions, a software and technology firm focused on media, backend production and digital distribution, has launched eBooks2go.net, an online platform for data conversion and international digital distribution aimed at both large and small publishers as well as individual authors. To promote the launch of eBooks2go.net, the company is offering new clients free services to convert PDFs to ePub until September 30.
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Kno Releases Textbook App for iPad
After scrapping plans to produce an unusual oversized dual-screen educational tablet device, Kno Inc., an educational startup focused on reinventing the textbook, has shifted its focus to creating educational software for the iPad. Now the company has released a beta version of the Kno app for iPad with a retail site offering more than 70,000 digital textbooks for sale at up to 50% off print list price, as well as course management, note-taking and social media functionality.
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Open Road in Deal with Penzler's New MysteriousPress.com
Fresh off receiving a new round of financing, Open Road Integrated Media has formed a partnership with mystery maven Otto Penzler to publish and promote digital editions of titles developed by Penzler’s just-launched MysteriousPress.com.
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This Week in Apps: June 2, 2011
This week there's a new app for potty training, as well as the classic tale of Snow White.
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Concord Free Press Launches Concord ePress
The Concord Free Press, an unusual writer-founded house that publishes print titles to give away to readers in exchange for donations to charity, has launched The Concord ePress, which will, in effect, release e-books to support the press’s book giveaway program.
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DC Reboots its Comics Universe; Goes 'Day and Date' For Print, Digital Release
DC Comics, home to comics icons Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, announced some radical moves for its publishing program. DC will relaunch many of its classic series with new origins, new costumes and more, and in another bold move, the publisher will release all of its superhero comics in digital editions at the same time as the print editions.
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Bloomsbury Forms Digital Publisher, To Partner with Agents
As more literary agencies look to publish digital editions of their clients' books, Bloomsbury Publishing has formed Bloomsbury Reader, a digital global publisher that will do e-book and print-on-demand editions of books where, according to a statement, “all English-language rights have already reverted to the author or the author's Estate and where there is no edition currently in print.”
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Transcontinental To Unveil e-Book Distribution Platform at BEA
Canadian printing and media firm Transcontinental announced plans to unveil an e-book distribution platform today at BookExpo America that will deliver titles to multiple digital platforms across of wide range of retail channels.
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RosettaBooks Launches Mayo Clinic E-book Line
RosettaBooks is this month releasing the first branded e-book from the world renown hospital, the Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy. The title marks the first e-book from a partnership formed by Mayo and Rosetta that will lead to at least 15 more titles this year. The Pennsylvania-based press Good Books will be issuing paperback editions of the titles Rosetta releases digitally.
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$1 Million to a Literary Site Called Figment – And It's Not Imaginary
Sixth-grader Fiona Plunkett is the published author of seven books. Really. But the Malibu, Calif., resident happily notes that they are all online – on figment.com, a free share-your-writing Web site geared toward teens.
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Amazon.com Now Sells More E-books than Print Books
In an announcement that will likely generate cheers as well as fears, Amazon.com says that it now sells more Kindle e-books than print books—paperback and hardcover—combined. Since April 1, Amazon says it has sold 105 kindle books for every 100 print books, soft or hardcover, including print titles that do not have Kindle editions. The figures do not include free Kindle titles.
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Penguin Classics Debuts Amplified e-Books; Rosenthal's Blue Rider Press
To mark the 65th anniversary of Penguin Classics, Penguin plans to release “amplified” e-book editions of classic literature, beginning with John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men: Amplified, which will be published this week featuring a variety of supplementary content. In addition, David Rosenthal has announced that the name of his newly launched general interest Penguin imprint will be Blue Rider Press.
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Digital Graphic Novel on CIA's 1953 Iran Coup
In 2007, video game artist Daniel Burwen came across Steven Kinzer's Overthrow and was "blown away" by its overview of American geopolitical chicanery. The result is Operation Ajax: How the CIA Toppled Democracy in Iran, an unusual interactive digital graphic novel and app developed for the iPad.
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The Producers: Books and Video in 2011
At the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, over 100 companies showed off new models of tablet computers, sleek devices capable of a vast array of multimedia functions, the most popular of which, overwhelmingly, is video.
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McGraw-Hill Unveils Major Digital Library
McGraw-Hill has launched a platform for accessing its wide breadth of content online at www.MHeBookLibrary.com. The site will deliver content to institutions globally and contains over 1,000 titles. The publisher said the library was created to serve the growing digital demands of library patrons and give easier and quicker access to its content.
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The Week in Apps: May 13, 2011
This week, there’s an app based on children’s character Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, one from Al Gore, and one featuring six Tiger Tales stories.
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The Week in Children's Apps: May 12, 2011
This week, there’s an app based on children’s character Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, and one featuring six Tiger Tales stories.
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Kobo App Adds Twitter Functionality
Kobo has unveiled an addition to its reading app for Apple devices, Kobo Reading Life, that will enable users to share information about what they're buying and reading via Twitter. Heretofore the app has only allowed users to share these details on Facebook. The upgrade will let fans post book covers, quotes, passages, and other content to Twitter from the books they are reading on the app.
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Goodreads Launches Book Club
Literary social networking site Goodreads has started a book club, selecting as its first title Jennifer Egan's recent Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit From the Goon Squad. The Web site, which claims to be one of the biggest online reading communities--it just passed the 5 million mark for registered users--said its book club will be the first global book club in the world.
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Ruckus Media's Rick Richter Named to INscribe Digital's Advisory Board
Rick Richter, founder of new media kids' apps developer Ruckus Media and former president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, has been named to the advisory board of INscribe Digital, a new digital distributor of e-books and provider of content conversion services.
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