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Adaptive Studios Revives Abandoned Content
Adaptive Studios is an unusual venture that looks to find abandoned intellectual property and revive it for production in a wide variety of media. The venture has launched Adaptive Books and released its first title this month.
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, June 8, 2014
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended June 8, 2014.
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Harper Voyager Expands Digital-First Publishing
HarperCollins science fiction and fantasy imprint Harper Voyager is ramping up its Voyager Impulse digital-first line with plans to launch 31 original e-book titles beginning this summer and on through winter 2015.
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iBooks Bestsellers: King Hits the List
"Mr. Mercedes," Stephen King's latest novel, came in at #2 on Apple's iBooks bestseller list for the week ended June 9, behind "The Fault in Our Stars."
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Twenty Years Later, Landmark Digital Lawsuit Concludes
Known as “Freelance,” the case settles claims by freelance writers arising from the the 2001 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Tasini case.
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Comixology Inks Deal to Offer Viz Digital Manga
U.S. manga publisher Viz Media and digital comics marketplace Comixology announced an agreement that will bring Viz’s manga line to the Comixology platform in North America.
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Judge Says Price-Fixing Suit Filed by Retailers Can Proceed
Australian upstart DNAML says it was was harmed by the 2010 price-fixing scheme executed by Apple and the five agency publishers.
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Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, June 1, 2014
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended June 1, 2014.
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BookReels, an MTV for Books?
BookReels, a new website dedicated to promoting books using trailers, is hoping to, as its CEO explains, do for books what "What MTV did for music videos."
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RosettaBooks Debuts Mobile E-book App
E-book publisher RosettaBooks is launching an interactive e-reading app for mobile phones and tablets that serves as a marketing platform for its inventory of backlist classics.
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Jet City, Comixology Offer Digital Comic of Hugh Howey’s ‘Wool’
Amazon’s Jet City Comics imprint is serializing the comics adaptation of sci-fi novelist Hugh Howey’s 'Wool' simultaneously on Comixology and Amazon.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Clare Follows Green
Not even the final installment of Cassandra Clare's popular Mortal Instruments series, "City of Heavenly Fire" (out May 27), could bump John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" from the top spot on Apple's iBooks bestseller list.
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Judge Sets New Apple Trial Date
Judge Denise Cote adopted a proposed schedule for Apple’s Damages trial, officially moving the trial from July 14 to August 25.
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Apple Damages Trial Delayed Again
Under the new proposed schedule, the trial would now begin August 25 at the earliest. The move comes After Apple lost its emergency appeal to stay the proceedings last week.
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iBooks Category Bestsellers, May 25, 2014
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, children & teens, and more for the week ended May 25, 2014.
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Scribd Adds Perseus
Subscription e-book service Scribd announced a new partnership with Perseus Books Group that will bring thousands of Perseus titles to its readers.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Giffin Makes Top Three
Emily Giffin's latest novel, "The One & Only," released May 20, debuted at #3 on Apple's iBooks bestseller list.
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Diamond, Trajectory Partner to Deliver Digital Comics
Diamond Comics Distributors, the dominant distributor to the comics shop market, has reached a multi-year agreement with Trajectory, a digital publishing and distribution vendor, to offer conversion and global digital distribution for print comics.
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DoJ: Apple Verdict Should Be Affirmed
U.S attorneys argued that evidence of a price-fixing agreement was "overwhelming," and that Apple has identified "no sound reason" to reject Cote's finding.
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Graphicly Folds, Blurb Hires Key Talent
Blurb, a POD and digital self-publishing platform, has hired key personnel at Graphicly, a digital publishing platform, including Graphicly co-founder Micah Baldwin. The deal will shut down Graphicly.