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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Wiley Partners with Open Textbook Initiative, OpenStax College
John Wiley this week announced a partnership with Rice University-based OpenStax College, an initiative to provide free, open textbooks. Under the deal, Wiley will deliver content from OpenStax College’s two new biology textbooks via its WileyPLUS platform along. Pilot tests are slated to begin this fall.
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Ingram and Taylor & Francis Sign E-Textbook Partnership
Ingram and global academic publisher Taylor & Francis have announced a product alliance called Routledge Interactive.
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Literary Magazines Adapt to the Digital Age
There are 866 publications in Poets & Writers’ database of literary magazines, 14 of which were added in early 2013.
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SXSW 2013: For Digital Long Form, Experimentation Ahead
How do independent digital long form publishers make money? For every publisher, a different story.
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Publishers Oppose Amazon Bid for '.book' Domain
In a filing this week with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the Association of American Publishers came out against a bid by Amazon to buy the .book domain name.
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