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  • States, U.S. Attorneys in E-book Case Oppose Jury Trial

    Both U.S. attorneys and the states have now asked judge Denise Cote to deny Penguin’s request for a jury trial in its upcoming e-book price-fixing trial.

  • JManga Shuts Down: Robert Newman Answers Some Questions

    On May 30, Jmanga.com, a site organized by Japanese publishers to offer paid legal access to digital manga, will shut down and its members will lose access to any manga they purchased through the site. PW was able to talk to Robert Newman, JManga’s former business manager, who answered some, though not all, questions about the site.

  • Penguin To Ease Restrictions on Library E-books

    According to a report by the Associated Press, Penguin says that as of next week it will no longer window its frontlist e-book titles available to libraries.

  • Battle Lines Drawn in HarperCollins, Open Road E-Book Suit

    After more than a year since the case was first filed, cross-motions for Summary Judgment were finally submitted last week in HarperCollins’ lawsuit against Open Road over the e-book publisher’s e-book edition of Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George’s bestselling children’s book.

  • Knovel Adds Six New Publishing Partners

    Knovel, a web based database and technical service providing information to engineers, has added six new publishers to its content collection in an effort to expand the subject areas it offers.

  • IDPF Debuts Readium Foundation and ePub 3 SDK

    Readium.org, an open source initiative supporting ePub 3, has been organized into the Readium Foundation, a formal membership organization, that will debut at the Paris Book Fair and launch with about two dozen members.

  • Frederator Hires David Wilk To Run New E-book Unit

    Animation house Frederator is launching Frederator Books, a digital publishing imprint with plans to release 100 digital titles in 2013 and brought in publishing and distribution veteran David Wilk to direct the line of Kids illustrated e-books.

  • Trajectory Inks e-Book Deals with Chinese Publishers at Bologna Book Fair

    Trajectory announced partnerships with China’s People’s Education Press and Xiamen Bluebird Cartoon Company and in a separate deal released a One World Kids App and will publish Sally Discovers New York, a new digital picture book in the late Stephen Huneck’s kids’ series about a black Labrador retriever.

  • WSJ, Harper Doing Quickie Pope E-book

    Harper and The Wall Street Journal are partnering to publish an e-book about the new pope called Pope Francis: From the End of the Earth to Rome.

  • Amazon Debuts ‘Send To Kindle Button’

    Amazon’s new Send To Kindle Button is a new web application that allows users with Kindle accounts to send content they encounter on a website or blog to their Kindle supported e-readers to read at a later time.

  • 'The Chocolate War' and Other Robert Cormier Titles Now Available Digitally

    Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers is releasing e-book versions of a dozen young adult novels by Robert Cormier, who died in 2000 and was known for his unflinching portrayal of adolescence.

  • HMH, Kno to Offer K-12 Digital Content Direct to Schools

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is using Kno, an educational software developer, to offer its K-12 core curriculum content directly to U.S. school districts.

  • Wiley, American Graphics Institute Launch the Digital Classroom

    John Wiley is teaming with the American Graphics Institute to launch the Digital Classroom, an online educational resource offering a comprehensive library of video training and e-book reference works.

  • In Latest Twist, Penguin Demands Jury Trial in State Price-Fixing Case

    Penguin last week filed a motion demanding a jury trial in the e-book price-fixing cases filed by the states and consumers.

  • LBYR Joins Storia

    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is the latest publisher to add some of its titles to Storia, Scholastic’s classroom-based, teacher-recommended e-reading app for kids. A selection of LBYR books, from picture books to young adult novels, will be available on Storia in late spring.

  • Judge Fast-Tracking Bookseller Suit

    Judge Jed Rakoff yesterday set an aggressive schedule in the Indie booksellers' suit against Amazon and the big six publishers, putting the case on track for an October trial.

  • Medallion Releases e-Reader App for Forthcoming TREEBook Format

    Medallion Media Group has released its MMG Sidekick, an e-book reading app designed to support its forthcoming TREEBook technology and offer access to the full list of Medallion Press titles.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook to Be Deposed in E-Book Price-Fixing Case

    After a teleconference yesterday, Judge Denise Cote issued an order compelling Apple CEO Tim Cook to sit for a deposition with U.S. attorney questions.

  • DoJ Price-Fixing Case has Generated Over Eight Million Pages of Evidence

    How complicated and costly is the Department of Justice's price-fixing suit? According to an exchange of letters over whether Apple CEO Tim Cook will be deposed, Apple attorneys note that it has produced over 3.6 million pages of documents for the case, while the publisher defendants have produced nearly five million pages.

  • SXSW 2013: Napster Founders Talk Digital Future

    In one of the "big think" panels on the last day of SXSWi, Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Sean Fanning discussed, with other thinkers, how they see access to content online changing, and whether big business is adapting.

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