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The Week in Children's Apps: April 25, 2011
This week we take a look at an app based on a children’s book about dinosaurs and one that let kids dress princesses up.
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Why Libraries Should – and May Be – Hawking Hocking (Soon)
For my teaching job, I recently got to borrow an iPad. Woo-hoo! No one was more excited than my 11-year-old daughter, Gigi. She immediately downloaded the Amazon app and searched for the bestselling teen books. For a mere 99 cents, she could buy Switched, the first e-title in Amanda Hocking’s Trylle Trilogy.
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Kindle Teams with OverDrive to Lend Library Books
Amazon announced this morning that Kindle owners will soon be able to borrow books from public libraries. Working with vendor OverDrive, which manages e-book lending for the vast majority of public libraries, the deal will make thousands of titles available via more than 11,000 of Overdrive’s public library partners.
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Correction: Terry Southern Titles
In a piece from yesterday's PW Daily about Open Road Media releasing e-book editions of a number of titles by Terry Southern, we incorrectly stated that Southern's work is out-of-print. In 1996 Grove Press reissued Southern's novels Candy, Flash and Filigree, The Magic Christian, and Blue Movie. And in 2002, Grove published a collection of writing by Southern called Now Dig This.
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Orbit Selling E-Book Short Stories
Orbit Books has launched a digital short fiction program, offering original stories from Orbit authors. The stories will be available at all major e-book retailers, currently only in the U.S., although other territories will be added in the future.
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Ingram, Recorded Books Team for Digital Audiobook Service
Ingram is teaming with Recorded Books to launch a new downloadable audio service for libraries. Under the agreement, Ingram will move its downloadable audio content to Recorded Books' OneClickdigital platform.
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Open Road Media To Release e-Books of Six Terry Southern Titles
Open Road Media plans to release e-book editions on May 3 and June 7 of six novels by the late Terry Southern, a formerly popular satirist, bestselling novelist and journalist as well as the screenwriter for such films as Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider. Open Road Media is working in parallel with Digital Book Works, an academic program at the University of Colorado focused on culture, multimedia and business design, that launched an unusual campaign at the recent SXSW festival to revive public interest in the iconic writer.
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E-Bells and E-Whistles for 'Silver Palate' and 'Asian Dumplings'
Of the many reasons most cookbook users still prefer print to digital, layout may be one of the most important. But digital cookbooks have their perks, allowing authors to demonstrate techniques with audio and video. Here are two ways publishers have made their e-cookbooks more appealing.
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Karen Hunter Launches First One Digital Publishing
Launched in January as an independent digital venture headed by Karen Hunter, publisher of the S&S imprint Karen Hunter Publishing, First One Digital Publishing is an ambitious digital-first venture looking to create a new model for book publishing. Focused on releasing a list of fiction and nonfiction written by both veteran and emerging authors, First One Digital Publishing has released 11 e-books so far as it gears up for a new set of e-book releases and the launch of a major marketing and promotional compaign for its titles.
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The Week in Apps: April 15, 2011
This week we take a look at apps based on a new book about the history of the Earth, the classic children’s book Pat the Bunny, a bestselling cookbook for athletes, and a collection of darkly humorous poems.
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The Week in Children's Apps: April 14, 2011
This week we take a look at apps based on the classic children’s book Pat the Bunny, and on a collection of darkly humorous poems.
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Hyperion Releases Enhanced E-Book for Royal Wedding
It’s typical for a royal wedding to spark a rush of books on the engaged couple, but the April 29 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is allowing publishers to utilize the benefits of technology in ways not seen before. Hyperion has just released A Modern Fairy Tale: William, Kate, and Three Generations of Royal Love, an original enhanced e-book that contains text by novelist Jane Green, video from ABC’s archives, and dozens of photos.
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Digital Manga Guild Ramps Up Quickly With New Licenses
Hikaru Sasahara, CEO of Digital Manga Publishing, first floated the idea of the Digital Manga Guild—recruiting manga fans to work in teams as translators—less than six months ago, and the idea is starting to take concrete shape. Sasahara has acquired 508 manga titles and hopes to start signing agreements with translation groups this week.
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More Graphic Textbooks from Flat World Knowledge
After introducing the college world to graphic textbooks with his Atlas Black management series, Texas Tech University management professor Jeremy Short returns with two new textbook/comics titles: Tales of Garcon: the Franchise Players and University Life: A College Survival Story, his latest efforts using comics to create textbooks for college level students.
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Rosemary Wells Teams with Auryn, Fourth Story to Develop Kids' Apps
Bestselling children's book author Rosemary Wells is teaming up with app developer Auryn Inc. and the multimedia story producer Fourth Story Media to launch a series of story apps for children.
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Kobo Plans Expansion of European e-Book Business
E-book retailer and e-reading software vendor Kobo is using the London Book Fair to launch an expansion of its business into Europe, announcing plans to open local content stores in Germany and Spain beginning in May with plans for more countries to follow. The new stores will market a variety of content targeted to European readers that will be readable on a wide range of personal computers and mobile devices.
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New Wharton Digital Press Aims for Global Reach
In order to reach business leaders not only in the U.S. but across the globe, one of America's best known business schools, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, has launched Wharton Digital Press. To produce and distribute its titles in different digital formats as well as through print on demand, Wharton has signed with Perseus Book Group’s Constellation service.
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The Week in Apps: April 8, 2011
This week we take a look at apps that help middle schoolers gain confidence and deal with bullies, take kids on an “a-maze-ing” adventure, teach children about colors and painting, and let kids pretend they're a part of a spy series.
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The Week in Children's Apps: April 7, 2011
This week we take a look at apps that help middle schoolers gain confidence and deal with bullies, take kids on an “a-maze-ing” adventure, teach children about colors and painting, and let kids pretend they're a part of a spy series.
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Random House Inc. Invests in Flat World Knowledge
Flat World Knowledge, an open source textbook publisher that offers its texts for free online, while selling ancillary products based on them, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Random House Inc. The investment is separate and additional to the $15 million in funding Flatworld Knowledge received in January from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, a unit of Bertelsmann, RH’s parent company, and Bessemer Venture Partners.
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