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Chegg to Offer Open Source eTextbooks with OpenStax & 20 Million Minds
Chegg will begin offering open source e-textbooks through OpenStax College and the 20 Million Minds Foundation starting this month.
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Lulu Drops DRM for E-books Sold Natively
In an announcement sent out on January 8, self-publishing Web site Lulu.com stated that it is going to stop using Digital Rights Management to protect e-books that it sells directly to consumers.
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Gale Launches New Addition to National Geographic Virtual Library
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has launched of a new multimedia resource in its National Geographic Virtual Library (NGVL) series, its third installment.
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ShiftyLook Uses Free Web Comics and Games to Build an Audience
The Japanese videogame giant Namco Bandai is giving the freemium model a try with their new Web comics site, ShiftyLook.
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S&S Bringing Nixon's Complete Works to E
Simon & Schuster has brought Richard Nixon to digital. The publisher will be releasing the complete works of the 37th president on January 9, timed to Nixon's 100th birthday.
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U.S. Proposes Timetable For Penguin to Join DoJ Settlement
The United States government is ready for public comments and expects entry of the proposed Final Judgment be filed by no later than May 10, 2013.
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Rosetta Teams With Harvard on Line of Health E-books
RosettaBooks has partnered with Harvard Health Publications to do line of original e-books ranging in subject matter from CEO management training to helping children with their sleeping habits.
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Enhanced E-books from TED Books
Launched in 2011 by TED, the nonprofit organization that sponsors conferences on technology, entertainment, design and much else, TED Books is a book imprint devoted to short nonfiction works designed for digital distribution.
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STM Subscription Service Knovel.com Looks to 2013
Knovel.com, an online reference service primarily used by engineers, is heading into 2013 after a year of growth with plans to offer an improved user experience, new content, new tool sets and services and more fully integrate its database offerings into client networks.
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Penguin V-P Self-Publishes Interactive Novel
Much like many other authors these days, Jeff Gomez, a published novelist and nonfiction author in addition to working as v-p, online consumer sales and marketing, at Penguin USA, decided to self-publish his new book.
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Amazon Launches U.K. Kindle Singles Store
Amazon is bringing its Kindle Singles storefront to Europe. The company has launched its Kindle Singles Store at Amazon.co.uk, offering stories between 5,000 and 30,000 words to customers there.
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Candlewick Launches in iBookstore
Candlewick has announced that it will begin selling books on Apple's iBookstore. A selection of the company's picture books is now available.
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Penguin Settles with DoJ; Terms Will Apply to Merged Company
In a move that had been expected since the announcement of the Penguin, Random House merger, Penguin Group (USA) has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice in the government's e-book pricing lawsuit. Terms are nearly identical to agreements reached with Simon & Schuster, Hachette and HarperCollins, but according to the government, if the Random House-Penguin merger is approved the newly formed company must abide by the agreement.
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Ruckus Media Debuts New Ruckus Reader App
The new Ruckus Reader app will launch with about 100 interactive titles, readalong e-books and videos and offers publishers a combination distribution channel, retail marketplace and digital reading/consuming software.
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Ebrary Expands Non-English Offerings
E-book provider ebrary has announced that is expanding its non-English language offerings with a new e-book subscription database—the ebrary Nordic Collection—as well as the addition of recently acquired content from a handful of German publishers.
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Baker & Taylor Expands Collection Management Team
Baker & Taylor this week announced that it has expanded its collection management with new staff and a new facility in Crystal Lake, Ill.
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Rosetta Releasing Arthur C. Clarke Collection
E-book publisher RosettaBooks is publishing digital editions of 35 titles by iconic science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke.
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Apple's iBookstore: Top Selling Titles of 2012
Apple’s iBookstore has released its “Best of” listings for 2012 including a listing of the top selling e-books of 2012. Here's a listing of the top ten paid fiction and nonfiction titles, paid audiobooks and top 10 free e-books at the iBookstore.
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European Commission Settles with Apple, Publishers
The European Commission has finally completed its investigation into the e-book pricing policies of five publishers and Apple, reaching deals with Apple and four of the houses.
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