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Small Demons Extends Deadline to Find Buyer
Small Demons, the L.A.-based book-focused venture that indexes the places, music, food and things mentioned in books, has extended its deadline for finding a buyer or new investor for at least another month.
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Are Comics Too Hot For Apple?
It’s a big deal when Apple bans a comic from in-app purchase—usually because of sexual or mature material or nudity—and it has happened to at least 59 comics this year.
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Bluewater Graphic Novels Now on BiblioBoard
BiblioBoard, an app and e-publishing platform that allows libraries and third party vendors to offer free or for-pay access to bundles of content, is teaming with comics publisher Bluewater Productions to offer 750 graphic novels via the platform.
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Byliner Goes Free for Thanksgiving Rush
To draw new readers to its content, Byliner, one of a handful of publishers specializing in short form digital content, is launching a promotion on Tuesday, November 26, the busiest travel day of the year.
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Using Twitter, @AuthorBee Creates Fan Engagement
AuthorBee, a collaborative storytelling application driven by social media, is being launched today as a Web platform integrated with Twitter.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Grisham Still Leads
For the third week in a row, Sycamore Row by John Grisham was the top selling paid book in Apple's iBooks store.
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Viz Manga Now On Sale via Google Play
Continuing its efforts to make its digital manga catalog available through every online retail channel, manga publisher Viz Media is making its entire list of digital manga available for purchase through Google Play Books.
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HMH Signs with Ingram for Library E-Distribution
The publisher will use Ingram's MyiLibrary e-content platform, offering both frontlist and backlist titles.
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HarperCollins, Curriculet Test New School E-book Model
In a hybrid venture that combines the subscription and rental e-book models, HarperCollins is partnering with Curriculet in a pilot program that offers short-term e-book purchasing to school districts.
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Apple Seeks to Knock Out E-book Class Action Case
Apple is seeking to kill the consumer class action against it—and a potential multi-million dollar damages award—by arguing that its entry into the e-book market was “pro-competitive” and beneficial to consumers.
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Podcast: Judge Rules In Google Books Scan Case
All’s fair in the Google Books Case; so says Judge Denny Chin who has issued a landmark ruling in the eight-year case brought by the Authors Guild.
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Google Wins: Court Issues a Ringing Endorsement of Google Books
In his long awaited final analysis, Judge Denny Chin offered a ringing endorsement of Google’s scanning program in dismissing the Authors Guild lawsuit against the search giant.
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Witness Publishes Lost Christie Novella
Agatha Christie wrote the novella, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly, in 1954, but decided to turn it into the full-length novel, Dead Man's Folly.
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Gutenberg Technology Gets $6.5 Million in Financing
Gutenberg Technology, parent company of multimedia e-book publishing platform MyEbookFactory 5.0, has secured $6.5 million in round B funding led by an investment from the venture capital firm of BNP Paridas.
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Court Denies Bid to Examine Amazon’s E-book Pricing
Judge Denise Cote this week denied RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn’s application to conduct his own “discovery” into Amazon’s allegedly “predatory” e-book pricing, setting up a potentially interesting final fairness hearing on December 6.
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Cornell University Press Launches Digital Imprint
Cornell Selects will publish short form e-books on current affairs, labor and workplace issues, and social issues.
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Judge Will Determine Apple Liability in E-book Case
In September, Judge Denise Cote had ordered the plaintiff states and Apple to confer on a stipulation regarding Apple's liability for civil penalties in the e-book price-fixing case, but the parties this week said those talks are at an impasse.
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iBooks Bestsellers: Grisham Still Number One
John Grisham's Sycamore Row was once again the bestselling paid book in Apple's iBooks store for the week ended November 11.
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Intel Acquires Kno
Intel, the giant semiconductor manufacturer, has acquired Kno, a software developer of educational content for multimedia devices, and will make the company a part of Intel Education.
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DailyLit Debuts Revamped Website
DailyLit, an online venture that delivers fiction to busy consumers via daily e-mail installments, is being relaunched with a redesigned Web site, new offerings of contemporary and classic literature and plans to add poetry and plays in the coming weeks.
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