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Making the Short Story Mobile
If Paul Vidich, a former technology executive at Time Warner and AOL, is right, his new venture, Storyville, may lead to a revival of the short story. Launched at the end of 2010, Storyville is an iPhone/iPad app that offers readers a weekly short story for an inexpensive six-month subscription.
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The Googlization of Books
There have been a few popular books in recent years detailing Google's ascent in the digital world, notably Ken Auletta's Googled: The End of the World as We Know It and Jeff Jarvis's What Would Google Do. But there is another story, says author and media scholar Siva Vai-dhyanathan.
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The Week in Apps: January 28, 2011
In this week’s round-up of apps, there is an iPad app based on a picture book that teaches kids how to read; a course on learning French; and a classic Dr. Seuss book with a tongue-twisting narrative.
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The Week in Children's Apps: January 27, 2011
In this week’s round-up of apps, there is an iPad app based on a picture book that teaches kids how to read, and a classic Dr. Seuss book with a tongue-twisting narrative.
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Digital Book World: E-Books and Libraries? No Problem, Panel Says
E-book lending has been a thorny issue for libraries, but a panel at Digital Book World yesterday moderated by Library Journal’s Josh Hadro suggested perhaps there really wasn’t much of an issue. Despite Hadro’s introduction, which quoted a recent feasibility study about e-books in which librarians expressed deep anxieties, and a recent talk from Ann Arbor, MI, librarian Eli Neiburger entitled "Libraries are Screwed,” the panel was decidedly upbeat.
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'NYT''s First E-Book Exclusive: Keller's WikiLeaks Story
On Monday, the New York Times will publish its first e-book, Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy, about the release of last year's WikiLeaks documents. An excerpt from the book’s introductory essay by Bill Keller, the Times's executive editor, is online now. The Times is only releasing an e-book version and a spokesperson told PW there are no plans for a print book.
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Digital Book World: Agents and Rights Take Spotlight
In two afternoon panels at Tuesday’s Digital Book World, the evolving role of rights in the digital era were the focus. At the first panel, New Models for Agents, the changing job of agents was the topic as Scott Waxman, Steve Ross, and Jim Levine, all discussed new ventures they have undertaken recently.
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TED, Amazon to Launch TEDBooks
TED, the renowned nonprofit conference and foundation that provides a platform to important writers, thinkers, and artists to offer “ideas worth spreading,” is launching TEDBooks, a line of short, digital books, in a partnership with Amazon.com. The e-books will be short--from 10,000 to 20,000 words--and sell for $2.99 through Amazon’s Kindle Singles program beginning today. TED plans to expand the program to other digital formats in the future.
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LibreDigital, RoyaltyShare Debut Separate e-Book Sale Tracking Deals
In separate announcements e-book distributor LibreDigital and business software developer MediaMorph announced a strategic partnership to launch LibreDigital Business Intelligence, a software service that tracks and manages e-book sales; and British house Faber and Faber announced a similar pact with royalty accounting firm RoyaltyShare to use its Digital Advantage for eBooks service to manage its worldwide eBook revenue.
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Digital Numbers from Oceanhouse Media, Barnes & Noble
With Digital Book World kicking off in New York, this week, Oceanhouse Media announced that more than one million apps developed by the company have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store. Barnes & Noble, meanwhile, said since the launch of the Nookcolor it has sold more than 650,000 total subscriptions and single copy sales of digital editions of newspapers and magazines.
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BookSwim Plans E-book Lending Site
With major publishers so far reticent to sanction a rental market for e-books, BookSwim.com, the New Jersey-based print-book rental company billed as "the Netflix of books," told PW it plans to launch a new site called eBookToss.com, a virtual "e-book swap" that will facilitate the direct lending of e-books between consumers using the lending features enabled by platforms like Kindle and Nook.
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Samhain Relaunches Website; Debuts Don D'Auria Horror Line
Don D'Auria, former executive editor at Dorchester's Leisure Books imprint and noted expert on the horror genre, has been hired by original e-book house Samhain Publishing to launch a line of horror titles. Samhain, an e-book publisher that also publishes traditional print titles, has also redesigned and relaunched the Samhain website.
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Peter Costanzo Moves to F+W Media
Peter Costanzo, director of online marketing for the Perseus Book Group, is leaving Perseus to take a position as director of digital content at F+W Media. He will report to Chad Phelps, F+W executive v-p, eMedia.
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Perseus Distributes E-Book of National BP Commission Report
Perseus Distribution is distributing an e-book edition of Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling, the official report by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, through its digital service, Constellation.
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The Week in Apps: January 14, 2011
This week we take a look at a couple of apps spun off of popular children's books, as well as ones for grown-ups on how to draw and what foods pair with what beverages.
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This Week in Children's Apps: January 13, 2011
This week we take a look at apps featuring the Berenstain Bears and Little Critter, one from Cajun artist and author George Rodrigue, and an original app about making the perfect blueberry muffin.
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Larsson, Gilbert Top OverDrive's Most Downloaded Library E-Books List
As ALA Midwinter kicks off in San Diego, e-book, audiobook, music, and video digital distributor OverDrive, which provides digital distribution services for more than 13,000 libraries, retailers, and schools, has released some statistics about library and school use. More than one million new users accessed free e-books, audiobooks, and other content from Virtual Branch Web sites (which OverDrive supports) last year, resulting in a 200% increase in e-book checkouts and a 52% increase in audiobook checkouts over 2009.
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The Week in Apps: January 7, 2011
This week, some beloved characters from children's books series make their app debuts. Also: How to Cook Everything for the iPad, and a graphic novel series.
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The Week in Children's Apps: January 6, 2011
This week, some beloved characters from children's book series make their app debuts, including Clifford and the gang from the Magic School Bus.
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F+W Media Partners with About.com for New Web Venture
F+W Media, the vertical content company behind, among other things, Digital Book World, and About.com, have partnered to create a new online venture, NetPlaces.com, which pairs F+W’s content and eCommerce engine with the About.com platform.
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