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Judge Lightens Apple Injunction; Expects to Sign Next Week
Working off the DoJ’s proposal with Apple’s red-lined version incorporated, the judge said her final order would seek to address competition in the e-book market, while treading as lightly as possible on Apple’s business.
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Judge Orders Apple to Detail its Objections to Revised Injunction
Late last Friday, the judge ordered Apple attorneys to submit “a red-lined version of the Plaintiffs’ Revised Injunction striking any language to which Apple objects,” by 10 am this morning.
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Digital Art Books Hit a (Gallery) Wall
“I’ll corroborate what you’ve probably been hearing,” says Abrams CEO Michael Jacobs, when asked to discuss the state of digital publishing in the art and photo book market.
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Picador Partners with CNN on E-short
A forthcoming documentary produced by CNN called The Flag, has enabled an unusual tie-in edition: a 99 cent single chapter e-short of Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11.
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DoJ Softens Apple Injunction, but Hits Macmillan Hardest
Under the revised proposal, Apple must still terminate its current e-book agreements with the defendant publishers, but rather than five years, the ban on using a straight agency model now ranges from two to four years.
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With Gov't Deadline Looming, AAP Outlines Public Access Plans
The White House directive, issued in February 2013, could affect some 19 federal agencies, and would cover “any results published in peer-reviewed scholarly publications."
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Open Road Partners with Peachtree
Open Road Integrated Media has inked a deal with Peachtree Publishers to release digital editions of a collection of the house's titles.
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iBooks Bestsellers: 'Cuckoo' Stays on Top
The Cuckoo's Calling still sits in the top spot on Apple's iBooks paid bestseller list, for the week ending August 19.
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Random House's Loveswept Partners With Wattpad
Thanks to a deal between Random House's digital-only romance imprint, Loveswept, and Wattpad, author Ruthie Knox will have her new series debut in serialized form on the online writing (and reading) community.
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NewSpring Capital Leads $11M Investment in Open Road Media
E-book publisher and digital marketer Open Road Integrated Media announced that it has received $11 million in Series C equity financing led by an $8 Million investment from NewSpring Capital.
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Millions Qualify for E-book Refunds
Rust Consulting executives have said that the cooperation of e-book retailers will translate into an “unprecedented” rate of success in reaching consumers.
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Chegg Plans $150 Million IPO
Chegg, the company that began as an online platform offering college textbooks for rent and now offers other services for college students, is looking to raise $150 million in an initial public offering.
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Harlequin Expands Digital First Efforts
The Harlequin, Harlequin Teen, Harlequin Mira, and Harlequin HQN imprints will all publish e-book originals in the coming months.
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Graphic India, YouTube Debut Grant Morrison’s ‘18 Days’
YouTube and the transnational media company Graphic India are launching comics writer Grant Morrison’s motion comic, 18 Days, a science fiction and fantasy treatment based on the epic Eastern myth Mahabharata, the tale of a war between gods.
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Digital Comics: Adding Readers and Flexibility
Digital comics are not only here to stay, they are adding a new level of flexibility and innovation to comics, say publishers at this year's Comic-Con.
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RH Imprint Alibi Announces Debut Titles
The new digital-original publishing program will launch with The Last Clinic by Gary Gusick, the first novel in the Darla Cavanaugh mystery series.
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iBooks Bestsellers: No Stopping 'Cuckoo'
For the fourth week in a row, Cuckoo's Calling remained the top selling paid book on Apple's iBooks list, for the week ending August 12.
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Apple, DoJ Back in Court on August 27
At the hearing late last week, Judge Cote said she would issue an injunction, but asked the parties to confer further on their recommendations for the scope of that injunction.
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Mackin in Deal with Hachette
Mackin Educational Resources has begun distributing Hachette Book Group’s catalog of more than 6,000 e-books to its preK-grade 12 customers through its MackinVIA platform.
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Wattpad Debuts New Crowdfunding Service
The online writing community Wattpad is launching Wattpad Fan Funding, a new crowdfunding service that allows Wattpad members to pledge financial support to writing projects from their favorite Wattpad writers.
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