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Rosetta Books Announces New Higher E-Book Royalty Rate
E-book publisher Rosetta Books announced what it calls the “highest industry standard e-book royalty rate” yesterday. The new royalty terms give Rosetta authors 50% of net receipts on the first 2,500 copies of the e-books sold, followed by 60% of receipts for subsequent copies.
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Ingram Launches VitalSource App for Apple Devices
Today Ingram announced the launch of VitalSource Bookshelf, an iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) app for its VitalSource program, which enables access to digital textbooks for academic institutions and students.
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Zinio Wants Visual Digital Books
Best known as a digital newsstand offering tens of thousands of magazines, Zinio, the San Francisco digital content aggregator, is stepping up its profile in the digital book market, adding a host of new trade book publishers.
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E-book Publishers (Mostly) Sticking To Splitting Profits
Now that e-books appear here to stay, the idea of publishing e-book originals, or digital-only editions of out-of-print books, no longer seems so strange. In fact, lots of publishers are trying it, from high-profile operations like Open Road Integrated Media to lesser-known enterprises like agent Scott Waxman's Diversion Books.
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Idea Book: Steven Johnson
E-books have found themselves a passionate and articulate champion in Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, The Ghost Map, and The Invention of Air.
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DNAML to Auction eBook.com Domain Name
DNAML, an e-book technology developer and e-book distributor, has announced plans to sell the domain name eBook.com. The San Francisco investment bank Viant Capital, LLC, will manage the auction process for ebook.com. According to DNAML, over the last year the site has provided nearly five million e-book downloads of the 12,000 e-book titles it offers.
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Blio e-Reading Software Set For Release September 28
It looks like the release of Blio, the much anticipated e-book reading software developed by technologist Ray Kurzweil, is getting close. In partnership with Baker & Tayor, Kurzweil's firm KNFB Reading Technology says the free e-book reading software will be available for download beginning September 28.
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Dynamic Books, College Open Textbooks in Pact to Offer Affordable Textbooks
Dynamic Books, a publishing platform and line of customizable digital textbooks from Macmillan, announced an agreement with College Open Textbooks to identify quality public domain or open licensed textbooks that can be integrated into the Dynamic Books platform. College Open Textbooks has identified 27 open textbooks on a variety of academic subjects that will be made available through Dynamic Books beginning in January 2011 for a fee of $20 per student per term.
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Komikwerks Adds New Actionopolis Series Via Kindle E-books
Komikwerks, an online comics site and digital comics provider, is expanding its line of Actionopolis adventure novels aimed at young people with a list of 16 new series delivered through the Kindle e-book platform and available for Kindle on iPad, iPhone, PC, Mac, Blackberry, or Android device.
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Richter Launches Ruckus Media, a Kids' Digital Publishing Venture
Rick Richter, former president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, is returning as the head of a new media company, Ruckus Media, a global family entertainment company that will specialize in creating high-definition animation apps for children aimed at the mobile computing market. Ruckus Media has more than 80 original and licensed animated titles under contract, with plans to price titles at $3.99, and the company will begin releasing an app each week starting September 28.
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Random Inks Digital Pact with Smashing Ideas
Random House Children’s Books has entered into a partnership with digital developer Smashing Ideas to create book-based children's apps for mobile devices. Based in Seattle, Smashing Ideas has worked with companies like Mattel and PBS Kids and is a developer of digital products and interactive experiences aimed at the youth market.
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ICandymobile Brings Rich Media To Paper Books
The popularity of using smartphones and the iPad to read often means that prose will be accompanied by video, animation, and sound. Ricoh Innovations, a unit of the electronics manufacturer focused on developing new technology products, has developed an app that will allow users who pick up a paper book to have access to rich multimedia content via their handheld device and links to that content placed on the printed page.
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Kobo Launches Desktop App
Wednesday, Kobo announced a new desktop app that allows users to build, manage and read their e-book libraries on their desktop computers, as well as to connect to Kobo's own e-reader or third-party devices, such as the Sony Reader. The app works with both PCs and Macs and can be downloaded free.
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Harper's Short Story E-Book Giveaway: Two Weeks Only
HarperCollins is testing a new model of giving away content: it is making an electronic version of an exclusive short story by mystery author Charles Todd available for free for two weeks, starting August 31. Readers will be able to download the story at Amazon, BN.com, and other major e-retailers, and Amazon has already made the 3,400-word tale available for pre-order.
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Digital 'Firsts' from Random House and HarperCollins
Both HarperCollins and Random House revealed new e-products earlier this week. Random House Children's Books is publishing its first e-book original, a tie-in to Michael Scott's Nicholas Flamel series. Also on Tuesday, HarperCollins Children'ss Books announced the launch of its ABC Song and 123: Ants Go Marching iPhone and iPad apps.
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The RH/Wylie Showdown Ends, New Digital Royalty Rate Is Born
The news that Random House had "won" its showdown with the Wylie Agency, over the inclusion of titles by its authors in Wylie's backlist digital publishing business Odyssey Editions, spread through publishing circles quickly on Tuesday, after Random House and Wylie released a joint statement. The statement said that Random will now be the exclusive e-book publisher of the titles in question--there are 13--and that, as a result of the agreement, Random will lift its ban on doing business with the agency.
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Flatworld, Virigina State Ink Digital Textbook License Deal
Flatworld Knowledge, an "open source" textbook publisher that offers its texts for free online while selling ancillary digital supplements and guides, announced an unusual digital licensing agreement with Virgina State University that it claims will radically reduce the cost of textbooks. Through a digital site license, Virginia State will levy a $20 fee on students in eight core business courses that will give them access to all the digital formats Flatworld Knowledge offers in support of its print textbooks.
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RH and Wylie Come to Terms; Random 'Wins'
Random House, which charged last month that The Wylie Agency might be in murky legal waters by releasing e-book editions of titles by some of its authors, seems to have won the showdown, so to speak.
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Kaplan Offers Free Books via iBookstore
Educational and test prep publisher Kaplan Publishing is ushering in the new academic year with a special promotion offered exclusively through the iBookstore in which it will be giving away downloads of 98 of its titles. The promotion runs from August 24-30, and the titles can be downloaded using the free iBooks app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
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EnkHouse Brings New Take on Enhanced E-books
Things are moving fast in the digital book world, but perhaps no one is moving faster than David Marlett. With a background in law, film, and business, Marlett has put together a series of partnerships to develop enhanced e-books and apps through the newly formed enkHouse.
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