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iBookstore E-book Bestsellers: Week Ending June 10, 2013
Last week's #1 iBookstore seller, Inferno, slipped to #2 behind Sylvia Day's Entwined with You. Click through for the top 10.
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ABFFE Joins Campaign Against NSA Surveillance
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) has joined a number of other civil liberties organizations to protest the National Security Administration's surveillance of Americans' Internet activity and phone records.
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Apple Trial: Rupert Murdoch Wanted to ‘Screw’ Amazon
HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray couldn’t recall very much of his early dealings with Apple as the company negotiated its entry into the e-book business, but his testimony suggests he may have been the shrewdest negotiator of the five publisher CEOs.
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Apple Attacks Google at Trial
For more than an hour, Apple attorney Orin Snyder aggressively dismantled Google's Director of Content Partnerships, but failed to get Amazon officials off their story.
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Nook Media Debuts Nook Snaps, Curated Digital Short Content
Nook Media is launching Nook Snaps, a bimonthly program of commissioned original fiction and narrative nonfiction of at least 5,000 words offered for sale at $1.99 each.
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Gersh Agency Partners With Diversion on New Imprint
Diversion Books is partnering with The Gersh Agency on a new imprint which will publish titles by the agency's clients.
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iBookstore E-book Bestsellers: Week Ending June 3, 2013
Apple has started to make available the weekly top 10 selling e-books in its iBookstore with Inferno appearing #1.
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Penguin's David Shanks Testifies at Apple Trial
Looking less than happy, Penguin Group USA CEO David Shanks testified and reluctantly acknowledged a succession of e-mails and calls that appear to show him and other Penguin executives acting in concert with his fellow Big Six CEOs to use the move to the agency model to raise e-book prices above the $9.99 price point.
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First Witness Testifies in Apple E-book Trial
Under questioning from U.S. Attorney Mark Ryan, Apple's associate general counsel, Kevin Saul, insisted that Apple’s consideration and eventual embrace of the agency model came only in response to publisher suggestions, as a way to get deals done.
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Apple, DoJ Trial Begins Today
The Department of Justice trial against Apple charging that the company was the “ringleader” in a conspiracy to fix e-book prices begins today in New York.
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Donnelley to Handle Harlequin's e-Book Services
R. R. Donnelley & Sons has struck an agreement with Harlequin to provide e-book services for the publisher.
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Firebrand to Do E-Distribution for S&S
The publishing services company Firebrand Technologies will now be handling digital content distribution and metadata services for Simon & Schuster.
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Plympton Gives Classic Lit a Facelift Through New Promotion
Plympton, the new literary startup that publishes fiction digitally in serialized form, has started a project called Recovering the Classics that crowdsources new covers for public domain literature.
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Kobo Reports 98% Growth in First Quarter Revenue
Kobo reports 98% growth in first quarter revenue across its device and content sales.
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PDP Launches E-book Bundling Retail Network
eBookBundles.com is the parent site of a new network of e-book retail storefronts focused on genres—including retail sites for sci-fi, romance and fantasy--that offers bundles of titles by a variety of authors at an economical price.
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PubMatch Teams With BookWorks, Launches New Site
PubMatch, the global rights organization that Publishers Weekly co-owns with Combined Book Exhibit (CBE), has forged a partnership with the self-publishing association BookWorks to launch a new BookWorks Web site.
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HMH Starts E-book Recipes Series
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has released of The 20 Best e-book series which will feature 20 original e-books, each containing 20 recipes from its Betty Crocker cookbooks.
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At Hearing, Judge Says She is Leaning Against Apple
At a hearing yesterday in Manhattan, Judge Denise Cote said her “tentative view,” was that the government will be able to prove Apple’s guilt in coordinating a conspiracy to raise e-book prices.
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Penguin Finally Settles Price-Fixing Charges, Will Avoid Trial
Penguin officials, along with Attorneys General for 33 states and the consumer class, announced this morning that they have finally settled their outstanding e-book price-fixing charges—for a hefty $75 million.
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New ALA Supplement Looks at 'Faustian Bargains' of Digital
Contributors include Publishers Weekly contributing editor Peter Brantley, director of scholarly communication at Hypothes.is, whose piece, “The Unpackaged Book,” examines ways in which the “fundamental model of libraries, publishers, distributors, and books will need further re-engineering.”
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