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B&N Introduces Nook Kids for iPad
Barnes & Noble has introduced a Nook kids for iPad application. The app makes B&N's digital catalog of children's content--which includes 100 new interactive kids' books--available on the e-reading device.
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Scholastic's New Line of iPad Apps Targets Preschoolers
Scholastic has introduced a new line of iPad apps called Touch & Tilt. The line launches with three apps, I Love You Through and Through; The Magic School Bus: Oceans; and Go, Clifford, Go! The apps are targeted at children ages two and up and were developed in-house.
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Santa Brings Random House Record E-Book Sales
December 25 and 26 were the two biggest e-book sales days ever for Random House, the publisher reported today. Combined e-book sales across e-retailers on those two days rose more than 300% over last year's sales for the same two-day period, which had been Random's best two-day e-book sales period ever.
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Larsson Tops Random House E-book Bestsellers
As part of its effort to help customers who receive e-readers for Christmas choose reading material, Random House has released a list of it top selling e-book titles. The three Stieg Larsson titles top the list followed by The Confession, Decision Points, The Lost Symbol, Cutting for Stone, Worth Dying For, Dark Fever and 61 Hours. The release also includes a breakdown of bestselling titles by 12 different categories.
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The Week in Apps: December 23, 2010
This week we take a look at new apps from publishers. There's a varied range, from originals to spin-offs of classic children's books, and subjects cover science, cheese, and more.
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Avon Relaunches Its Site
Avon has relaunched its Web site, www.avonromance.com, giving readers what it calls a "cleaner" look and more interactive features. The site features a streaming bookshelf, new e-bookstore featuring e-originals and e-book bundle offers. The site also features casual games based on the publisher's titles.
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Heading to a Digital Holiday
With holiday shopping in full swing comes more evidence that e-book sales should enjoy a big bump over the next few weeks. According to an analysis of consumer book-buying behavior conducted by Bowker's PubTrack Consumer service, 20% of readers reported in October that they are likely to buy an e-reader compared to just 10% in the 2009 holiday season.
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Kobo, Reading Life Apps add Instapaper
Kobo, the eBook reading software and e-tailer, has upgraded its software integrating Instapaper, an app that allows readers to easily save web articles, into the Kobo software for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Kobo is also upgrading its Reading Life app for iPad, an app that adds a gaming element to reading by allowing readers to easily track their reading habits and statistics and earn awards by simply reading.
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Send Us Your Apps
Beginning next week, PW Daily and Children's Bookshelf will start carrying a weekly listing of apps that have come out during that week. To be included, please send us the app title, the book or other source for the app (if there is one--original apps are fine, too), when it was released, price, background of the book (including such info as copies in print, when it was released, awards, and brief plot summary), and the interactive elements of the app. We also need the promo codes. Send all apps to Jim Milliot at jmilliot@publishersweekly.com, and send news of children's apps to Diane Roback at roback@publishersweekly.com as well.
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The Week in Children's Apps: December 16, 2010
The app field is heating up in children’s books, with a critical mass of titles coming to the market. This week we spotlight four releases, from Random House, Ruckus Media, HMH/Oceanside Media, and Greenwillow/Curious Puppy.
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Random, Workman Release New Apps with New Partners
The apps keep coming as both Random House and Workman have announced the release of the first apps from new partnership deals.
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Amazon Says It's Sold ‘Millions’ of Kindles This Quarter
In a mild break with its policy of withholding Kindle sales numbers, Amazon has stated, in a letter to Kindle customers posted on its Kindle discussion boards, that "in just the first 73 days of this holiday quarter, we've already sold millions of our all-new Kindles." Signed by "The Kindle Team," the letter goes on to state that these sales represent more Kindles sold than in all of 2009. This is Amazon's most concrete statement about Kindle sales and a clear indicator that e-reader sales have ramped up this year.
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Guinness Launches First Paid App
Guinness World Records is launching its first paid app. The app, designed specifically for the iPad, will be available in the App Store on December 16. After launching a free lite version of the app last spring, the new version, called Guinness World Records: At Your Fingertips, will retail for $4.99 and features video and games.
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E-book Trends By the Numbers
64: Percentage of all publishers now publishing e-books
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Figment Looks to Attract Young Writers
Founded by New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear and former New Yorker managing editor Jacob Lewis, Figment.com is an online writing community aimed at attracting a membership of young people, ranging from kids to teens and older, to post, share and comment on each other's original writing. Launched this week, the site is also teaming with YA author Blake Nelson, author of the well-received 1994 adult novel Girl, who is serializing Dream School, a long unpublished YA sequel to Girl, on the Figment site.
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New Survey on E-book Trends
A survey of 600 publishers from across the industry spectrum found 64% now offering e-books with 74% of trade houses producing titles in that format.
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Ruckus App Lands Author Three-Book Deal
Rick Richter's digital publishing venture, Ruckus Media, is releasing its first author-centric app, A Present for Milo, whic has landed its author a three-book deal. The app, which follows the titular mouse being chased by a cat throughout a house, has earned its author/creator, Mike Austin, a three-book deal with Blue Apple Books. Agent Rubin Pfeffer closed the deal for Austin, and the first book, scheduled for fall 2011, is a lift-the-flap title.
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DMP Launches the Digital Manga Guild
In an aggressive move to digitize and electronically distribute manga to as vast and wide an audience as possible, Southern California based manga publisher, Digital Manga Publishing, has launched Digital Manga Guild, a new online project aimed at both lowering the cost and speeding up the translation of Japanese manga into English.
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Google Launches Google eBooks, Formerly Google Editions
After months of anticipation, Google today launched its long-awaited cloud-based e-book program, Google eBooks. Rebranded from its original moniker, Google Editions, Google eBooks overnight becomes the largest e-book provider in the world, at least in terms of its offerings, launching with nearly three million books available for purchase or download, including "hundreds of thousands of e-books" available for purchase and over two million public domain titles available for free.
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An App Studio On Fulton Street
Seated in the conference room of his lower Manhattan office/production studio, Nicholas Callaway, chairman and CEO of Callaway Digital Arts, talked about the future of publishing and of his publishing house.
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