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Random House Prepared to Challenge Wylie Agency's New Publishing Biz
The Wylie Agency's new digital publishing business, Odyssey Editions, is not going unnoticed by publishers. Odyssey Editions, which the New York Times reported on this morning, will release e-book editions of classic titles by some of the agency's clients including Philip Roth and John Updike. The move, according to Random House, may be illegal.
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Penguin Debuts Amplifed Edition of Ken Follett's 'Pillars'
Penguin USA is debuting what it is calling the Amplified Edition of Ken Follett's international bestseller, The Pillars of the Earth--a multimedia e-book app offering extensive video, audio and other graphic content, created in conjunction with Starz Entertainment's production of an original 8 hour TV-mini-series based the book and set to broadcast beginning July 23.
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Amazon's E-book Sales Tripled in First Half of 2010
In Amazon's ongoing effort to show how popular the Kindle and e-books are without giving away real numbers the company has released a batch of new statistics about the two products ahead of its second quarter earnings report set for Thursday. According to the company, sales of the e-reader "accelerated each month in the second quarter--both on a sequential month-over-month basis and on a year-over-year basis."
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BBC Audiobooks Acquired by AudioGo
AudioGo Ltd., a UK-based media company, has bought BBC Audiobooks, in a sale that includes BBC Audio's U.S. operation, BBC Audiobooks America. The sale, which a company spokesperson said means "business as usual in the short term," has not resulted in any layoffs or executive staff changes. BBC Audiobooks America's Rhode Island office, in North Kingstown, is remaining, and editorial director Jeff Golick will continue to be based out of BBC Worldwide's office in Manhattan.
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HarperCollins Signs with NetGalley
HarperCollins is the latest publisher to sign with NetGalley to deliver ARCs, promotional materials, and other content digitally. The publisher's initial title with NetGalley--Judgment and Wrath by Matt Hilton, which Morrow will publish August 17--debuts at ThrillerFest today.
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AuthorHouse to Re-Release 12 Harold Robbins Novels
Jann Robbins, the widow of commercial novelist Harold Robbins, who died in 1997 after writing more than 20 bestsellers, is re-releasing 12 of Robbins's novels through self-publishing company AuthorHouse. Robbins said she chose AuthorHouse because it gave her the opportunity to make the books available over a wide range of digital platforms.
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Joining with Kobo, Borders Launches its E-Bookstore Today
Today's the day. Citing a goal to claim 17% of the e-book market by next Summer, the Borders Group, in conjunction with e-book retailer Kobo, is launching its own e-bookstore today, offering more than a 1 million free and for-pay titles along with a selection of digital reading devices.
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Major Publishers on Board with Agency Pricing in Canada's iBookstore
Last week, Apple offered Canada its birthday greetings by officially launching the iBookstore in the country. Although the free iBooks app has technically been available to Canadians with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch since the end of May, customers north of the border could previously only take advantage of free public domain classics.
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Wattpad, Smashwords Ink e-Book Partnership
Wattpad, an online writing community, social network and mobile phone e-book developer, is partnering with e-book publisher and distributor, Smashwords, to provide wider distribution and cross promotion opportunities for writers from both online communities.
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Lerner Goes Digital
This weekend at the American Library Association conference in Washington, D.C., Lerner Publishing Group will unveil Lerner Digital, its new digital content brand for the school and library markets, by launching the company’s new line of fiction and nonfiction digital books for struggling readers, Lerner Interactive Books. Lerner will release 33 titles for the Lerner Interactive Books inaugural list this fall.
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DC Comics Launches iPad, iPhone App; PlayStation Network Deals
DC Comics has teamed with the comics resource site and app developer Comixology to make its comics available through the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch beginning today; and in a separate deal, DC's comics will also be distributed through the PlayStation Network.
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FT Press Publishes New E-Book Series
FT Press today unveiled a new series of e-books called Insights for the Agile Investor, published via its digital imprint, FT Press Delivers. The books offer what FT Press describes as "focused and brief insights for individual and professional investors."
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Open Road to Publish E-Editions of 24 Jack Higgins Thrillers
Open Road Integrated Media, which got a major financial boost earlier this month, announced its latest e-book acquisition today: 24 Jack Higgins books, originally published between 1959 and 1985, which it will release as e-books as part of its Author Branded Program. The e-books are on sale today, and Open Road will release print-on-demand paperback editions of the books in the coming weeks.
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Kobo Debuts e-Reader for Android Phones
E-book retailer Kobo has released free Kobo e-book reading software for smartphones using the Android operating system. Kobo offers e-reading software for a wide variety of smartphones and dedicated e-readers including iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Palm WebOS and the newly released Kobo reading device.
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Quark, KNFB, B&T Team to Offer Digital Publishing 2.0
Software developer Quark was joined by K-NFB Reading Technology, developer of Blio, the much anticipated e-reading software, and distributor Baker & Taylor at the Untethered digital conference in Manhattan to announce a partnership that will launch Digital Publishing 2.0, a comprehensive digital content creation and distribution platform.
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Wiley Does, Or Doesn't, Adopt the Agency Model
Asked to describe the terms of their new agreement with Apple, executives at John Wiley danced around the question Thursday afternoon in a conference call with analysts.
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S&S Optimizes Sample Content With New Sites
Simon & Schuster has launched three new Web sites featuring 500-1,000 word samples from its nonfiction titles. The sites--tipsonhealthyliving.com, tipsonlifeandlove.com and tipsonhomeandstyle.com--have all been set up with search engine optimization in mind, to draw readers interested in the specific topics.
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Chronicle, Mobifusion to Deliver Speciality Titles to Mobile Phones
Chronicle Books has teamed with mobile publishing vendor Mobifusion to convert and deliver a series of Chronicle Book’s specialty card decks to a wide variety of smart phone platforms.
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Former Lulu Staffer Launches Digital Publishing House
Anthony Policastro, a former business analyst at self-publishing vendor Lulu.com, has launched the Outer Banks Publishing Group, a new publishing venture that will focus on digital publishing and the use of social media to build an audience for POD print releases.
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VQR Unveils iPad Edition
The Virginia Quarterly Review has created a digital edition specifically tailored for the iPad. The literary magazine from the University of Virginia has become one of the first magazines to create such an edition and sell it directly through Apple's iBookstore. A free 29-page sample of the magazine's current issue can be downloaded here. VQR is selling its digital editions at a price point of $3.99, as compared to the $14.99 price for the print issue.
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