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iBooks Bestsellers: Grisham Ousts Roth

| 11/06/2013 @ 09:45AM

Sycamore Row, John Grisham's return to the characters and setting featured in 1989's A Time to Kill, was the bestselling paid book in Apple's iBooks store for the week ended November 4.
Former CQ Press Publisher Debuts Free Legal Resource

by Andrew Albanese | 11/05/2013 @ 09:15AM

The site will include variety of services, including a job board, issues reporting, and a variety of blogs to inform and entertain—all free to users.
Apple Remains Defiant in Latest Filings

By Andrew Albanese | 11/05/2013 @ 12:00AM

Apple this week filed its answer to the class action complaints, in which it offered 10 initial defenses, and, as expected, conceded virtually none of the findings from its June trial.
Amazon Unveils Early Access Program, Kindle First

| 11/01/2013 @ 10:15AM

In its third announcement this week about new, exclusive content available for the Kindle, Amazon has unveiled Kindle First, a program offering pre-publication access to Amazon Publishing titles to device owners.
Kodansha, Crunchyroll Talk Global 'Simulpub' Manga

By Deb Aoki | 11/01/2013 @ 09:30AM

Crunchyroll Manga is live and PW talked with Kodansha International's Tatsuya Morimoto and Crunchyroll's Robert Newman to get more details about this new worldwide digital comics publishing venture.
Amazon Introduces Kindle Countdown

| 10/31/2013 @ 09:50AM

Amazon announced a new Kindle program that provides limited-time promotional discounts on Kindle-exclusive titles.
Study: E-books Settle In

By Jim Milliot | 10/31/2013 @ 12:00AM

E-books have become a “normal means of consuming content,” but the rapid growth of the format’s early years are over. This is one of the main takeaways from BISG's final installment of its four-year study, Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading.
Gale Launches New Purchase Model for E-books

| 10/30/2013 @ 01:20PM

The new model will enable libraries to purchase e-books “based on actual usage,” allowing libraries to better “perform evidence-based collection development.”
Amazon Launches ‘Day One’ Digital Literary Journal

| 10/30/2013 @ 10:00AM

Amazon Publishing announced plans to launch Day One, a weekly digital literary magazine focused on short fiction and poetry, including works from new authors and foreign authors in English translation.
iBooks Bestsellers: 'Allegiant' Pushes to the Top

| 10/30/2013 @ 09:50AM

Veronica Roth's much-anticipated closer to her Divergent trilogy, Allegiant, was the top-selling paid book in the Apple iBooks store for the week ended October 28.
Amazon's MatchBook Launches

| 10/29/2013 @ 10:30AM

Amazon has officially launched the bundling program it announced in September, Kindle MatchBook, noting it has expanded from featuring 10,000 titles to 70,000.
Random House Acquires Figment

By Calvin Reid | 10/29/2013 @ 09:30AM

Random House Children's Books has acquired Figment, an online writing community for teens founded by Jacob Lewis and Dana Goodyear in 2010 that has attracted more than 300,000 users.
Kodansha, Crunchyroll To Offer Digital Manga

by Deb Aoki | 10/28/2013 @ 01:00PM

Kodansha is teaming with Crunchyroll, an online platform offering legal access to streamed anime and manga, to digitally distribute 12 current Kodansha manga titles in English, via the Crunchyroll Manga platform starting on October 30.
iBooks Bestsellers: Moriarty Reaches Number One

| 10/23/2013 @ 09:50AM

The Husband's Secret bested the previous top seller, the much-anticipated next book from Rick Riordan, The House of Hades, which landed at #5.
Apple Disputes $307 Million Damage Figure in E-book Case

By Andrew Albanese | 10/23/2013 @ 12:00AM

Apple attorneys are disputing an expert report by Stanford economist Roger Noll that put potential damages in its e-book price-fixing case at over $307 million.
Skyhorse Announces New Library Focused Imprint

| 10/23/2013 @ 12:00AM

Skyhorse officials say Carrel Books will publish its first list for libraries in 2014, with an "eclectic mix” of titles and subjects.
Inkling Acquires Two Digital Book Brands from Open Air Publishing

By Calvin Reid | 10/22/2013 @ 09:30AM

Inkling, a software platform for creating online interactive e-books, has acquired two branded book series—the Betterbook and Ready, Set, Baby! brands—from Open Air Publishing, a digital-first nonfiction e-book and app producer.
Damages in E-Book Case Pegged at $307 Million

By Andrew Albanese | 10/22/2013 @ 12:00AM

An expert for the Plaintiffs contends that higher e-book prices during the "collusion period" yielded an extra $307,808,414 for the settling publishers on revenues of more than $1.5 billion—an added margin of about 19.9%.
Hurix Adds PDF-to-EPub3 Fixed Layout

By Teri Tan | 10/22/2013 @ 12:00AM

Mumbai-based Hurix, a leading digital solutions company, has added a new feature to its KITABOO e-book platform to enable fully automated PDF-to-EPub3 fixed layout conversion.
Kobo Goes Extra Mile Reassuring Pubs About Content Policies

| 10/21/2013 @ 10:00AM

After becoming ensnared in a battle over censorship of erotic titles, Kobo has begun to go out of its way to make certain publishers feel comfortable using the distributor.

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