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FarFaria App Offers kids’ Stories for $3.99 Per Month

By Calvin Reid | 04/14/2014 @ 09:00AM

Offering a colorful and fanciful interface with more than 600 digital stories for kids, FarFaria is a subscription app for the iPad, providing unlimited access to its content for $3.99 a month.
Booktrack Raises $3 Million, Expands to Classrooms

| 04/10/2014 @ 08:30AM

The e-book soundtrack platform is moving into the education space.
HarperCollins Canada Publishes Rock Star’s E-book Serial

By Leigh Anne Williams | 04/10/2014 @ 12:00AM

HarperCollins Canada experiments with publishing a multimedia digital original fiction series with text, illustrations and soundtrack created by Bedouin Soundclash frontman.
iBooks Bestsellers: Lewis Unseats Roth

| 04/08/2014 @ 05:00PM

For the first time in nearly two months, Apple has a new top seller.
Sequential App Adds Top Shelf Graphic Novels

by Calvin Reid | 04/08/2014 @ 03:00PM

Sequential, the digital comics storefront app focused on literary graphic novels, is adding a selection of Top Shelf graphic novels for purchase.
BISG, Firebrand Partner on E-book Training Program

| 04/08/2014 @ 09:00AM

eBook Ninjas will provide professional development for e-book developers, managers, and publishing execs.
Apple Moves For a Stay in E-book Case

by Andrew Albanese | 04/06/2014 @ 12:00AM

Despite a string of lopsided losses in court, Apple attorneys press for a stay, noting that an appeal victory would "radically change" the legal landscape.
London Book Fair 2014: New Blood

By Andrew Albanese | 04/04/2014 @ 07:00PM

On April 1, Michael Cairns officially replaced the retiring George Lossius as CEO of Publishing Technology.
Poetry Gets a Hip New Look

By Craig Morgan Teicher | 04/04/2014 @ 07:00PM

The Academy of American poets, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, is one of the most important American organizations entirely devoted to poetry.
DC Periodical Comics Now for Sale on Google Play

| 04/03/2014 @ 11:00AM

DC Entertainment’s list of serialized superhero comics will now be available for sale on Google Play along with digital editions of DC and Vertigo original graphic novels and collected editions.
iBooks Bestsellers: Patterson, Roberts Hit the List

| 04/02/2014 @ 09:20AM

James Patterson and Marshall Karp's "NYPD Red 2," and "Shadow Spell," by Nora Roberts, were new to the top ten on Apple's iBooks bestseller list for the week ended March 31.
Authors Guild's Constantine Testifies

By Calvin Reid | 04/02/2014 @ 12:00AM

In testimony delivered before a House subcommittee, AG counsel Jan Constantine recapped the AG’s long running copyright dispute with Google and offered one possible solution—a collective licensing agreement for digital presentation rights to out-of-print books.
Readmill to Close

| 03/31/2014 @ 10:30AM

Readmill, a social reading app and company based out of Germany, is closing. TechCrunch first reported the news that Dropbox has acquired the app, with plans to shut it down.
Kobo Inks Deals with Nickelodeon, Blue Apple Books

| 03/28/2014 @ 10:00AM

In separate announcements, Nickelodeon Publishing and Blue Apple Books reached agreements to make their children’s titles available for sale through e-book retailer Kobo.
XanEdu, SharedBook to Merge

| 03/28/2014 @ 09:30AM

In a move that will combine two privately held firms that specialize in creating custom course materials for higher education, XanEdu and SharedBook, which includes AcademicPub, its self-service coursepack division, will merge.
Apple Loses Two Key Decisions in E-book Case

by Andrew Albanese | 03/28/2014 @ 12:00AM

The rulings are a double whammy for Apple, paving the way for the class action suits to continue, while all but knocking out Apple’s defense.
Humanoids Debuts Comics App for iPad

By Calvin Reid | 03/27/2014 @ 03:00PM

Humanoids, the famed French comics house now based in Los Angeles, has released the Humanoids Comics app for the iPad. The app is available now and offers users the ability to preview more than 60 Humanoids titles.
Sequential Adds NBM Graphic Novels

| 03/27/2014 @ 09:00AM

Sequential, the graphic novel retail app that specializes in literary comics, has added a selection of graphic novels from the New York indie comics publisher NBM including works by Rick Geary, Stan Mack and Margreet de Heer.
Scribd Adds Lonely Planet to Subscription Service

| 03/27/2014 @ 08:30AM

Scribd has reached an agreement with Lonely Planet to add hundreds of its travel guides to the Scribd e-book subscription service.
Bologna 2014: E-Publishing and 'Nimble Thinking'

By John A. Sellers | 03/27/2014 @ 05:00AM

TOC Bologna may be no more, but book fair attendees had a chance to get several perspectives on the ongoing impact of changing technologies on children’s publishing at the fair's first Digital Rights Workshop.

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