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Penguin Random House Debuts New Unified Website
The publisher's newly designed website, which brings Random House and Penguin together online, is optimized for mobile devices and, according to PRH CEO Markus Dohle is “consumer-focused.”
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iBooks Bestsellers: ‘The Liar’ Reaches #2
The latest from Nora Roberts debuted at #2 on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list.
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Olive Software Offers New E-book Enhancement Tool
Olive Software's SmartLayers technology claims to turn a publisher's generic prose e-books into an easily revised and upgradeable multimedia-enriched content platform.
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Apple E-book Monitor Reports 'Setbacks'
The latest report, for the six-month period ending in February, hints at the tension that has marked Apple's monitorship thus far.
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Scribd Subscription Adds Penguin Random Audiobooks
Penguin Random House will offer its audiobooks, though not its e-book titles, via the Scribd subscription service.
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Orbit Plans to Serialize New K.J. Parker Fantasy Epic
In a literary experiment, fantasy novelist K.J. Parker will serialize a new epic story in monthly e-books, writing it as the book's episodes are released.
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iBooks Bestsellers: No Stopping Hawkins
Paula Hawkins’s 'The Girl on the Train' held onto its #1 spot on Apple’s iBooks bestseller list, for the week ended April 13.
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Open Road Acquires Sillitoe Backlist, Unpublished Novel
Open Road Integrated Media has secured rights to a large body of British writer Alan Sillitoe’s work, as well as the rights to his last, unpublished novel, 'Moggerhanger.'
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London Book Fair 2015: 3M Expands Cloud Library to U.K. and Beyond
Already in over 1,000 libraries in the U.S. and Canada, users abroad will soon be able to use 3M to borrow library e-books.
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Beta Testing Capstone’s E-book Bundling Program
After years of asking mainstream publishers for e-books to be bundled with physical books, a small group of indie booksellers have gotten their wish.
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, April 5, 2015
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended April 5, 2015.
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Associated Press Debuts Book Line
AP Editions will release titles about current events and global personalities based on the work of AP reporters stationed throughout the world.
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Report Looks at New Publishing Business Models
Spain-based Dosdoce.com this week released an English language version of its 2014 report “New Business Models in the Digital Age.”
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iBooks Bestsellers: Coben Chases Hawkins
Paula Hawkins’s blockbuster debut thriller, 'The Girl on the Train,' still held firm at #1 on Apple's chart.
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, March 29, 2015
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended March 29, 2015.
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iBooks Bestseller List: ‘Steve Jobs’ Lands at #2
'Becoming Steve Jobs,' Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli’s biography of the late Apple CEO, rose from the #8 spot to the #2 spot on Apple’s bestseller list for the week ended March 30.
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iBooks Bestsellers: ‘Paper Towns’ Rises
The debut of the trailer of the film adaptation shot John Green's 2008 novel to the #2 spot.



