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New Macmillan Contract Latest Wrinkle in Pricing Conundrum

Rachel Deahl | 11/02/2009 @ 07:00AM

In a letter sent to publishers on October 26, Macmillan CEO John Sargent drew what might be one of the first significant lines in the sand in the looming battle over the payout structure for e-books. Sargent announced that Macmillan would be instituting a boilerplate contract across its divisions that would offer a 20% royalty on net proceeds on e-books, a drop from what has become the de facto...
San Francisco Panel Urges Publishers to Keep Experimenting

By Bridget Kinsella | 10/30/2009 @ 02:02PM

“Publishing in the Digital Age: Renaissance or Revolution” was the topic of this month’s meeting of the Northern California Book Publicity and Marketing Association.
BookGlutton Partners with O'Reilly for Bookstore

By Judith Rosen | 10/30/2009 @ 01:44PM

The Web-based reading platform has teamed with O'Reilly to launch a bookstore with 500 O'Reilly e-books.
Macmillan's Revised Contract Lowers Digital Royalties, Raises Direct to Consumer

| 10/29/2009 @ 02:20PM

A new Macmillan contract will change the way the publisher pays for digital sales as well as upping royalties for direct to consumer sales.
Google Opponents Urge Court to Reconsider Restrictions on Revised Settlement

By Andrew Albanese | 10/26/2009 @ 03:04PM

A broad group of opponents to the Google Book Search Settlement filed a letter with the Court Thursday urging judge Denny Chin not to restrict comments on a revised settlement, and to allow more time for would-be class members to assess any proposed revisions.
OR’s New Model at Work in ‘Going Rouge’

By Michael Coffey | 10/22/2009 @ 01:25PM

New progressive press OR Books is using an e-book, print-on-demand strategy to release its first book, Going Rouge.
Simon & Schuster Delaying 'Under the Dome' E-book Release

By Rachel Deahl | 10/22/2009 @ 01:10PM

With publishers experimenting on release dates for e-books, Simon & Schuster has announced it is delaying the release of the e-book of Stephen King's eagerly anticipated new 1,000-plus-page novel, Under the Dome.
Frankfurt Book Fair: Europeans Play the Moral Rights Card Against Google Settlement

By Andrew Albanese | 10/16/2009 @ 02:03PM

There’s been a simmering anti-Google sentiment at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, no doubt connected to European objections to the Google Book Search Settlement. And on Friday that simmer reached a boil, as the deal faced harsh—at times, puzzling—criticism at a registration-required panel on “European and American Positions Towards the Google Settlement.”
Frankfurt Book Fair: Ray Kurzweil Teams with Baker & Taylor on New eReader Software

By Calvin Reid | 10/15/2009 @ 08:37PM

Baker & Taylor announced a partnership with acclaimed scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, to supply digital content for K-NFB Reading Technology, a newly developed e-book reading software created by Kurzweil in collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind.
A Closer Look at Disney Digital Books

By Pamela Brill | 10/15/2009 @ 04:35PM

Late last month, Disney Publishing Worldwide unveiled the launch of Disney Digital Books, and further details were announced during Disney’s presentation to the media on October 8. An online library of more than 500 classic and contemporary titles, Disney Digital Books was designed around three key components: an Interactive Reader, Look and Listen, and a Story Builder, which lets kids create their own books. Because Disney owns its own content...
Frankfurt Book Fair: Friedman Expounds on Open Road Integrated Media

By Jim Milliot | 10/14/2009 @ 06:16PM

From the Frankfurt Book Fair where she is promoting her new company, former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman has added a few more details about her new operation, Open Road Integrated Media.
McGraw-Hill Professional in E-books Deal with ScrollMotion

By Lynn Andriani | 10/13/2009 @ 08:35PM

McGraw-Hill Professional has announced a deal with iPhone app developer ScrollMotion to offer e-books as iPhone and iPod Touch apps via ScrollMotion’s Iceberg Reader.
Gaiman to Launch Crowd-Sourced Story on Twitter

By Lynn Andriani | 10/12/2009 @ 01:47PM

Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman is writing a new crowd-sourced short story on Twitter. Starting tomorrow at noon EDT, the author—and well-known Twitter fan (@neilhimself)—will Tweet the first line of a new story, and fans can continue it with their own 140-character contributions. BBC Audiobooks America will then compile the contributions—they expect about 1,000—into a short story that will be recorded by a professional narrator.
Questions Mount Before Debut of International Kindle

by Jim Milliot & Rachel Deahl | 10/12/2009 @ 06:00AM

Amazon has given the international publishing community plenty to ponder as it gathered this week for the Frankfurt Book Fair. The pending (Oct. 19) release of a $279 Kindle that will be available for sale in more than 100 countries has raised a variety of questions. Here are the most pressing. How will the integrity of territorial rights be maintained? What will be the impact of digital edition...
New Dates Set in Google Settlement

| 10/12/2009 @ 06:00AM

At a 30-minute status conference held October 7, the parties involved in the Google Book Search Settlement signed off on a new schedule aimed at reaching a final agreement early in 2010. November 9 Amended agreement to be filed with the court, to include amendments drafted to address concerns raised by the original settlement.
Swine Flu Leads to Wiley E-book

by Michael Coffey | 10/12/2009 @ 06:00AM

In response to the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic, John Wiley is publishing its first-ever e-book—only trade title. Swine-Flu: The New Pandemic by Marc Siegel, M.D., will be available later this month, priced at $6.99. According to Thomas Miller, executive editor, general interest books at Wiley, “We thought the time was right to publish a short book that included the most important information...
iStoryTime Brings New Authors to Smartphones

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 10/08/2009 @ 05:30PM

The digital revolution means it isn't just big companies and established authors getting into the e-book app game - anyone with an idea, some start-up capital and tech know-how can now successfully bring a high-quality e-book app to market. That is exactly what happened with three friends with technology backgrounds who wanted to give their children books, not video games, to occupy themselves at the grocery store. The result is iStoryTime, an e-book platform for iPhone and Android OS that is getting...
Amended Google Deal Targeted for November 9

By Calvin Reid | 10/07/2009 @ 02:01PM

At a status conference held in a crowded New York courtroom this morning, lawyers representing the AAP and Authors Guild told judge Denny Chin they will file an amended agreement with the court by November 9 to address the many concerns raised by the original Google Book Search Settlement.
S&S, Disney Try New Models

by Jim Milliot & Rachel Deahl | 10/05/2009 @ 06:00AM

Over the past several years, industry executives have been casting about for new business models that will allow them to monetize their print assets in an increasingly digital world. Last week, two publishers unveiled new products that look to do just that. Simon & Schuster teamed with multimedia startup Vook to publish four video—e-book hybrid titles—dubbed, appropriately, vook...
Bookselling Heads to the Espresso Age

by Judith Rosen | 10/05/2009 @ 06:00AM

In the next two months, seven independent bookstores in the U.S. will add Espresso Book Machines from On Demand Books capable of brewing a 300-page perfect-bound book in five to seven minutes.

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